What is the test for invoking the so-called 'triangulation rule'?

not apply every time there are two or more reasonable interpretations of a penal statute. [Citation.] Rather, the rule applies "'only if the court can do no more than guess what the legislative body intended; there must be an egregious ambiguity and uncertainty to justify invoking the rule.'" [Citation.]' [Citation.]" (People v. Nuckles (2013) 56 Cal.4th 601, 611.) "Further, ambiguities are not interpreted in the defendant's favor if such an interpretation would provide an absurd result, or a result inconsistent with apparent legislative intent. [Citation.]" (People v. Cruz (1996) 13 Cal.4th 764, 783.)