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    In the top right image, shouldn't the Si be actually Sn?
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    In the top right image, shouldn't the Si be actually Sn?
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The 25 pieces can be rearranged into 4 groups using the coloured circles
as cues, as this crude edit shows.

enter image description here




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    Some partials. Combine with @Weather Vane's answer to put them in the correct order for reading.



    If we assume that in the OP they are numbered first row 1-5, second row 6-10, etc., then we have:



    1.




    THREE = TREE + H




    2.




    EXISTENTIAL = EXIT + S + VIAL (with V = ENT)
    flag of ERITREA




    3.




    NULL or NULL SET or EMPTY?




    5.




    ? = Silicon + alpha + LA




    6.




    SEMIJOIN = IMES (reversed) + JOINT - T




    7.




    ? = KA + KATANA + YO (half of YOYO)




    8.




    SETH, STETH, ? = the letters that fill in the blanks are ETH, and there's an S in a T-shirt




    11.




    RHO = RHINO - IN




    13.




    U = capital (Ottawa) ewe




    14.




    QUANTIFIER = U + ANT + QUID - D + FI + ER (RE reversed)




    17.




    POUND (453.6 grams is approximately 1 pound)




    18.




    SCRUPLE = ESC - E + RUBLE (with B = P)




    21.




    PERPENDICULAR = PEER - E + PEN + DICK - K + URAL (with L and R switched)




    22.




    TSHE = SETH rearranged to take in order 3142




    23.




    TACK = TRACK - R




    24.




    EXCLAMATION = EX + CLAM + AT + ION




    25.




    DOLLAR = DOLL + AR (god RA upside down)







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      Continuing from Weather Vane's observation




      that the squares can be rearranged into four groups if we require that the quarter-circles at some of their corners match up,




      in fact




      those four groups fit in a unique way into the original 5x5 square shape. Some of the rebuses are easier to make sense of than others; so far I have the following:

      perpendicular pound empty-set ??star+?? ??doll??

      or katakana-yo right-semijoin ??? ??pilcrow??

      rho scruple ??combination-set?? quantifier vertical-bar

      seth existential-qualifier capital-lambda exclamation shang

      ??open-o?? three ??ail?? schwa ??Si-alpha-los-angeles??

      (Credit to Bass for noticing that it's specifically a right semijoin, which I hadn't spotted.)




      I haven't given detailed explanations of how the rebuses work because I think they're mostly easy to see once you have the answer, but here are a couple of the subtler ones:




      "schwa" is because we have the German flag, we're pointing to its black stripe, hence schwarz (German for black), and we want 5/7 of this, making schwa. "katakana yo" is because "ka" has been inserted into the middle of a katana (plus half a yo-yo). "or" is half an Afro, reversed. I don't actually believe "seth" since it doesn't seem to be the name of a symbol, but the point is that you can insert "eth" into all those gaps. "Shang" is because we have a picture of some towers in Shanghai, plus a gap followed by the "hai" character.




      which makes me think that




      each square is leading to a single symbol, something like this:

      ⟂£∅??

      ∨彐⋊?¶

      ρ℈??|

      ?∃Λ!上

      ɔ3?Ə?




      shoover's answer has some plausible explanations for a few of my gaps, yielding




      ⟂£∅?$

      ∨彐⋊?¶

      ρ℈Ћ?|

      ?∃Λ!上

      ɔ3⊣Ə?




      It isn't entirely clear to me what to do next;




      it looks a little as if something good might happen if we read the whole thing upside down, though. (It looks a little like a word-ladder with only one letter changing at each step, but so far I can't make that work and I think it's probably wrong.) At any rate it's striking how many upside-down-E-like things there are in the second column. Perhaps the "or" symbol is actually meant to be a vertical bar and we're meant to read the pilcrow, even upside down, as a P, in which case that row yields "pixel". I suspect the open-o may be meant to be read as a D, even though to my mind that only works if we don't invert it. It's possible that the fourth row might say "fiver", in which case maybe I can pretend that the second row says "hazel" and there's a Watership Down reference going on. But so far this is all just speculation.




      Ah!




      I bet it says DETECTIVE - LIVED BAKER STREET, in which case the answer is SHERLOCK HOLMES. (Credit where due: this did not occur to me until I saw Bass's inspired guess that in the mysterious Los Angeles box "Si" is a typo for "Sn", so that that square contains an "a".) If this is right, then clearly I have entirely the wrong symbol in the middle of the first line (an empty set) since it looks nothing like "re" or "ee".







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        Solve original image by rows:



        Row 1




        Three - existential quantifier - braces / empty set - ? - Latin alpha




        Row 2




        right semijoin? - katakana yo - small eth - schwa - vertical bar




        Row 3




        Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - pilcrow




        Row 4




        open o - pound - scruple - ? - Shang (上)




        Row 5




        perpendicular - unordered set - tie? - exclamation - dollar




        Then unscramble the image:




        enter image description here




        And hazard a guess at the next direction, since everybody else seems to be sharing their partials too:




        These all are unicode characters of some kind. Particularly of the kind that look like upside-down letters. Write them down, stand on your head, and read.




        Like so: (to be finished soon)






        ⟂ £ ∅ $
        ∨ ヨ ¶
        ρ ℈ ∀ |
        ð ∃ Λ ! 上
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              as cues, as this crude edit shows.

              enter image description here




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              A rearrangement.




              The 25 pieces can be rearranged into 4 groups using the coloured circles
              as cues, as this crude edit shows.

              enter image description here




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                  Some partials. Combine with @Weather Vane's answer to put them in the correct order for reading.



                  If we assume that in the OP they are numbered first row 1-5, second row 6-10, etc., then we have:



                  1.




                  THREE = TREE + H




                  2.




                  EXISTENTIAL = EXIT + S + VIAL (with V = ENT)
                  flag of ERITREA




                  3.




                  NULL or NULL SET or EMPTY?




                  5.




                  ? = Silicon + alpha + LA




                  6.




                  SEMIJOIN = IMES (reversed) + JOINT - T




                  7.




                  ? = KA + KATANA + YO (half of YOYO)




                  8.




                  SETH, STETH, ? = the letters that fill in the blanks are ETH, and there's an S in a T-shirt




                  11.




                  RHO = RHINO - IN




                  13.




                  U = capital (Ottawa) ewe




                  14.




                  QUANTIFIER = U + ANT + QUID - D + FI + ER (RE reversed)




                  17.




                  POUND (453.6 grams is approximately 1 pound)




                  18.




                  SCRUPLE = ESC - E + RUBLE (with B = P)




                  21.




                  PERPENDICULAR = PEER - E + PEN + DICK - K + URAL (with L and R switched)




                  22.




                  TSHE = SETH rearranged to take in order 3142




                  23.




                  TACK = TRACK - R




                  24.




                  EXCLAMATION = EX + CLAM + AT + ION




                  25.




                  DOLLAR = DOLL + AR (god RA upside down)







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                    Some partials. Combine with @Weather Vane's answer to put them in the correct order for reading.



                    If we assume that in the OP they are numbered first row 1-5, second row 6-10, etc., then we have:



                    1.




                    THREE = TREE + H




                    2.




                    EXISTENTIAL = EXIT + S + VIAL (with V = ENT)
                    flag of ERITREA




                    3.




                    NULL or NULL SET or EMPTY?




                    5.




                    ? = Silicon + alpha + LA




                    6.




                    SEMIJOIN = IMES (reversed) + JOINT - T




                    7.




                    ? = KA + KATANA + YO (half of YOYO)




                    8.




                    SETH, STETH, ? = the letters that fill in the blanks are ETH, and there's an S in a T-shirt




                    11.




                    RHO = RHINO - IN




                    13.




                    U = capital (Ottawa) ewe




                    14.




                    QUANTIFIER = U + ANT + QUID - D + FI + ER (RE reversed)




                    17.




                    POUND (453.6 grams is approximately 1 pound)




                    18.




                    SCRUPLE = ESC - E + RUBLE (with B = P)




                    21.




                    PERPENDICULAR = PEER - E + PEN + DICK - K + URAL (with L and R switched)




                    22.




                    TSHE = SETH rearranged to take in order 3142




                    23.




                    TACK = TRACK - R




                    24.




                    EXCLAMATION = EX + CLAM + AT + ION




                    25.




                    DOLLAR = DOLL + AR (god RA upside down)







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                      Some partials. Combine with @Weather Vane's answer to put them in the correct order for reading.



                      If we assume that in the OP they are numbered first row 1-5, second row 6-10, etc., then we have:



                      1.




                      THREE = TREE + H




                      2.




                      EXISTENTIAL = EXIT + S + VIAL (with V = ENT)
                      flag of ERITREA




                      3.




                      NULL or NULL SET or EMPTY?




                      5.




                      ? = Silicon + alpha + LA




                      6.




                      SEMIJOIN = IMES (reversed) + JOINT - T




                      7.




                      ? = KA + KATANA + YO (half of YOYO)




                      8.




                      SETH, STETH, ? = the letters that fill in the blanks are ETH, and there's an S in a T-shirt




                      11.




                      RHO = RHINO - IN




                      13.




                      U = capital (Ottawa) ewe




                      14.




                      QUANTIFIER = U + ANT + QUID - D + FI + ER (RE reversed)




                      17.




                      POUND (453.6 grams is approximately 1 pound)




                      18.




                      SCRUPLE = ESC - E + RUBLE (with B = P)




                      21.




                      PERPENDICULAR = PEER - E + PEN + DICK - K + URAL (with L and R switched)




                      22.




                      TSHE = SETH rearranged to take in order 3142




                      23.




                      TACK = TRACK - R




                      24.




                      EXCLAMATION = EX + CLAM + AT + ION




                      25.




                      DOLLAR = DOLL + AR (god RA upside down)







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                      Some partials. Combine with @Weather Vane's answer to put them in the correct order for reading.



                      If we assume that in the OP they are numbered first row 1-5, second row 6-10, etc., then we have:



                      1.




                      THREE = TREE + H




                      2.




                      EXISTENTIAL = EXIT + S + VIAL (with V = ENT)
                      flag of ERITREA




                      3.




                      NULL or NULL SET or EMPTY?




                      5.




                      ? = Silicon + alpha + LA




                      6.




                      SEMIJOIN = IMES (reversed) + JOINT - T




                      7.




                      ? = KA + KATANA + YO (half of YOYO)




                      8.




                      SETH, STETH, ? = the letters that fill in the blanks are ETH, and there's an S in a T-shirt




                      11.




                      RHO = RHINO - IN




                      13.




                      U = capital (Ottawa) ewe




                      14.




                      QUANTIFIER = U + ANT + QUID - D + FI + ER (RE reversed)




                      17.




                      POUND (453.6 grams is approximately 1 pound)




                      18.




                      SCRUPLE = ESC - E + RUBLE (with B = P)




                      21.




                      PERPENDICULAR = PEER - E + PEN + DICK - K + URAL (with L and R switched)




                      22.




                      TSHE = SETH rearranged to take in order 3142




                      23.




                      TACK = TRACK - R




                      24.




                      EXCLAMATION = EX + CLAM + AT + ION




                      25.




                      DOLLAR = DOLL + AR (god RA upside down)








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                          Continuing from Weather Vane's observation




                          that the squares can be rearranged into four groups if we require that the quarter-circles at some of their corners match up,




                          in fact




                          those four groups fit in a unique way into the original 5x5 square shape. Some of the rebuses are easier to make sense of than others; so far I have the following:

                          perpendicular pound empty-set ??star+?? ??doll??

                          or katakana-yo right-semijoin ??? ??pilcrow??

                          rho scruple ??combination-set?? quantifier vertical-bar

                          seth existential-qualifier capital-lambda exclamation shang

                          ??open-o?? three ??ail?? schwa ??Si-alpha-los-angeles??

                          (Credit to Bass for noticing that it's specifically a right semijoin, which I hadn't spotted.)




                          I haven't given detailed explanations of how the rebuses work because I think they're mostly easy to see once you have the answer, but here are a couple of the subtler ones:




                          "schwa" is because we have the German flag, we're pointing to its black stripe, hence schwarz (German for black), and we want 5/7 of this, making schwa. "katakana yo" is because "ka" has been inserted into the middle of a katana (plus half a yo-yo). "or" is half an Afro, reversed. I don't actually believe "seth" since it doesn't seem to be the name of a symbol, but the point is that you can insert "eth" into all those gaps. "Shang" is because we have a picture of some towers in Shanghai, plus a gap followed by the "hai" character.




                          which makes me think that




                          each square is leading to a single symbol, something like this:

                          ⟂£∅??

                          ∨彐⋊?¶

                          ρ℈??|

                          ?∃Λ!上

                          ɔ3?Ə?




                          shoover's answer has some plausible explanations for a few of my gaps, yielding




                          ⟂£∅?$

                          ∨彐⋊?¶

                          ρ℈Ћ?|

                          ?∃Λ!上

                          ɔ3⊣Ə?




                          It isn't entirely clear to me what to do next;




                          it looks a little as if something good might happen if we read the whole thing upside down, though. (It looks a little like a word-ladder with only one letter changing at each step, but so far I can't make that work and I think it's probably wrong.) At any rate it's striking how many upside-down-E-like things there are in the second column. Perhaps the "or" symbol is actually meant to be a vertical bar and we're meant to read the pilcrow, even upside down, as a P, in which case that row yields "pixel". I suspect the open-o may be meant to be read as a D, even though to my mind that only works if we don't invert it. It's possible that the fourth row might say "fiver", in which case maybe I can pretend that the second row says "hazel" and there's a Watership Down reference going on. But so far this is all just speculation.




                          Ah!




                          I bet it says DETECTIVE - LIVED BAKER STREET, in which case the answer is SHERLOCK HOLMES. (Credit where due: this did not occur to me until I saw Bass's inspired guess that in the mysterious Los Angeles box "Si" is a typo for "Sn", so that that square contains an "a".) If this is right, then clearly I have entirely the wrong symbol in the middle of the first line (an empty set) since it looks nothing like "re" or "ee".







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                            Partial answer



                            Continuing from Weather Vane's observation




                            that the squares can be rearranged into four groups if we require that the quarter-circles at some of their corners match up,




                            in fact




                            those four groups fit in a unique way into the original 5x5 square shape. Some of the rebuses are easier to make sense of than others; so far I have the following:

                            perpendicular pound empty-set ??star+?? ??doll??

                            or katakana-yo right-semijoin ??? ??pilcrow??

                            rho scruple ??combination-set?? quantifier vertical-bar

                            seth existential-qualifier capital-lambda exclamation shang

                            ??open-o?? three ??ail?? schwa ??Si-alpha-los-angeles??

                            (Credit to Bass for noticing that it's specifically a right semijoin, which I hadn't spotted.)




                            I haven't given detailed explanations of how the rebuses work because I think they're mostly easy to see once you have the answer, but here are a couple of the subtler ones:




                            "schwa" is because we have the German flag, we're pointing to its black stripe, hence schwarz (German for black), and we want 5/7 of this, making schwa. "katakana yo" is because "ka" has been inserted into the middle of a katana (plus half a yo-yo). "or" is half an Afro, reversed. I don't actually believe "seth" since it doesn't seem to be the name of a symbol, but the point is that you can insert "eth" into all those gaps. "Shang" is because we have a picture of some towers in Shanghai, plus a gap followed by the "hai" character.




                            which makes me think that




                            each square is leading to a single symbol, something like this:

                            ⟂£∅??

                            ∨彐⋊?¶

                            ρ℈??|

                            ?∃Λ!上

                            ɔ3?Ə?




                            shoover's answer has some plausible explanations for a few of my gaps, yielding




                            ⟂£∅?$

                            ∨彐⋊?¶

                            ρ℈Ћ?|

                            ?∃Λ!上

                            ɔ3⊣Ə?




                            It isn't entirely clear to me what to do next;




                            it looks a little as if something good might happen if we read the whole thing upside down, though. (It looks a little like a word-ladder with only one letter changing at each step, but so far I can't make that work and I think it's probably wrong.) At any rate it's striking how many upside-down-E-like things there are in the second column. Perhaps the "or" symbol is actually meant to be a vertical bar and we're meant to read the pilcrow, even upside down, as a P, in which case that row yields "pixel". I suspect the open-o may be meant to be read as a D, even though to my mind that only works if we don't invert it. It's possible that the fourth row might say "fiver", in which case maybe I can pretend that the second row says "hazel" and there's a Watership Down reference going on. But so far this is all just speculation.




                            Ah!




                            I bet it says DETECTIVE - LIVED BAKER STREET, in which case the answer is SHERLOCK HOLMES. (Credit where due: this did not occur to me until I saw Bass's inspired guess that in the mysterious Los Angeles box "Si" is a typo for "Sn", so that that square contains an "a".) If this is right, then clearly I have entirely the wrong symbol in the middle of the first line (an empty set) since it looks nothing like "re" or "ee".







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                              Continuing from Weather Vane's observation




                              that the squares can be rearranged into four groups if we require that the quarter-circles at some of their corners match up,




                              in fact




                              those four groups fit in a unique way into the original 5x5 square shape. Some of the rebuses are easier to make sense of than others; so far I have the following:

                              perpendicular pound empty-set ??star+?? ??doll??

                              or katakana-yo right-semijoin ??? ??pilcrow??

                              rho scruple ??combination-set?? quantifier vertical-bar

                              seth existential-qualifier capital-lambda exclamation shang

                              ??open-o?? three ??ail?? schwa ??Si-alpha-los-angeles??

                              (Credit to Bass for noticing that it's specifically a right semijoin, which I hadn't spotted.)




                              I haven't given detailed explanations of how the rebuses work because I think they're mostly easy to see once you have the answer, but here are a couple of the subtler ones:




                              "schwa" is because we have the German flag, we're pointing to its black stripe, hence schwarz (German for black), and we want 5/7 of this, making schwa. "katakana yo" is because "ka" has been inserted into the middle of a katana (plus half a yo-yo). "or" is half an Afro, reversed. I don't actually believe "seth" since it doesn't seem to be the name of a symbol, but the point is that you can insert "eth" into all those gaps. "Shang" is because we have a picture of some towers in Shanghai, plus a gap followed by the "hai" character.




                              which makes me think that




                              each square is leading to a single symbol, something like this:

                              ⟂£∅??

                              ∨彐⋊?¶

                              ρ℈??|

                              ?∃Λ!上

                              ɔ3?Ə?




                              shoover's answer has some plausible explanations for a few of my gaps, yielding




                              ⟂£∅?$

                              ∨彐⋊?¶

                              ρ℈Ћ?|

                              ?∃Λ!上

                              ɔ3⊣Ə?




                              It isn't entirely clear to me what to do next;




                              it looks a little as if something good might happen if we read the whole thing upside down, though. (It looks a little like a word-ladder with only one letter changing at each step, but so far I can't make that work and I think it's probably wrong.) At any rate it's striking how many upside-down-E-like things there are in the second column. Perhaps the "or" symbol is actually meant to be a vertical bar and we're meant to read the pilcrow, even upside down, as a P, in which case that row yields "pixel". I suspect the open-o may be meant to be read as a D, even though to my mind that only works if we don't invert it. It's possible that the fourth row might say "fiver", in which case maybe I can pretend that the second row says "hazel" and there's a Watership Down reference going on. But so far this is all just speculation.




                              Ah!




                              I bet it says DETECTIVE - LIVED BAKER STREET, in which case the answer is SHERLOCK HOLMES. (Credit where due: this did not occur to me until I saw Bass's inspired guess that in the mysterious Los Angeles box "Si" is a typo for "Sn", so that that square contains an "a".) If this is right, then clearly I have entirely the wrong symbol in the middle of the first line (an empty set) since it looks nothing like "re" or "ee".







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                              Partial answer



                              Continuing from Weather Vane's observation




                              that the squares can be rearranged into four groups if we require that the quarter-circles at some of their corners match up,




                              in fact




                              those four groups fit in a unique way into the original 5x5 square shape. Some of the rebuses are easier to make sense of than others; so far I have the following:

                              perpendicular pound empty-set ??star+?? ??doll??

                              or katakana-yo right-semijoin ??? ??pilcrow??

                              rho scruple ??combination-set?? quantifier vertical-bar

                              seth existential-qualifier capital-lambda exclamation shang

                              ??open-o?? three ??ail?? schwa ??Si-alpha-los-angeles??

                              (Credit to Bass for noticing that it's specifically a right semijoin, which I hadn't spotted.)




                              I haven't given detailed explanations of how the rebuses work because I think they're mostly easy to see once you have the answer, but here are a couple of the subtler ones:




                              "schwa" is because we have the German flag, we're pointing to its black stripe, hence schwarz (German for black), and we want 5/7 of this, making schwa. "katakana yo" is because "ka" has been inserted into the middle of a katana (plus half a yo-yo). "or" is half an Afro, reversed. I don't actually believe "seth" since it doesn't seem to be the name of a symbol, but the point is that you can insert "eth" into all those gaps. "Shang" is because we have a picture of some towers in Shanghai, plus a gap followed by the "hai" character.




                              which makes me think that




                              each square is leading to a single symbol, something like this:

                              ⟂£∅??

                              ∨彐⋊?¶

                              ρ℈??|

                              ?∃Λ!上

                              ɔ3?Ə?




                              shoover's answer has some plausible explanations for a few of my gaps, yielding




                              ⟂£∅?$

                              ∨彐⋊?¶

                              ρ℈Ћ?|

                              ?∃Λ!上

                              ɔ3⊣Ə?




                              It isn't entirely clear to me what to do next;




                              it looks a little as if something good might happen if we read the whole thing upside down, though. (It looks a little like a word-ladder with only one letter changing at each step, but so far I can't make that work and I think it's probably wrong.) At any rate it's striking how many upside-down-E-like things there are in the second column. Perhaps the "or" symbol is actually meant to be a vertical bar and we're meant to read the pilcrow, even upside down, as a P, in which case that row yields "pixel". I suspect the open-o may be meant to be read as a D, even though to my mind that only works if we don't invert it. It's possible that the fourth row might say "fiver", in which case maybe I can pretend that the second row says "hazel" and there's a Watership Down reference going on. But so far this is all just speculation.




                              Ah!




                              I bet it says DETECTIVE - LIVED BAKER STREET, in which case the answer is SHERLOCK HOLMES. (Credit where due: this did not occur to me until I saw Bass's inspired guess that in the mysterious Los Angeles box "Si" is a typo for "Sn", so that that square contains an "a".) If this is right, then clearly I have entirely the wrong symbol in the middle of the first line (an empty set) since it looks nothing like "re" or "ee".








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                                  Solve original image by rows:



                                  Row 1




                                  Three - existential quantifier - braces / empty set - ? - Latin alpha




                                  Row 2




                                  right semijoin? - katakana yo - small eth - schwa - vertical bar




                                  Row 3




                                  Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - pilcrow




                                  Row 4




                                  open o - pound - scruple - ? - Shang (上)




                                  Row 5




                                  perpendicular - unordered set - tie? - exclamation - dollar




                                  Then unscramble the image:




                                  enter image description here




                                  And hazard a guess at the next direction, since everybody else seems to be sharing their partials too:




                                  These all are unicode characters of some kind. Particularly of the kind that look like upside-down letters. Write them down, stand on your head, and read.




                                  Like so: (to be finished soon)






                                  ⟂ £ ∅ $
                                  ∨ ヨ ¶
                                  ρ ℈ ∀ |
                                  ð ∃ Λ ! 上
                                  ɔ 3 ꄟ ə Ɑ









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                                  $endgroup$


















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                                    $begingroup$

                                    Solve original image by rows:



                                    Row 1




                                    Three - existential quantifier - braces / empty set - ? - Latin alpha




                                    Row 2




                                    right semijoin? - katakana yo - small eth - schwa - vertical bar




                                    Row 3




                                    Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - pilcrow




                                    Row 4




                                    open o - pound - scruple - ? - Shang (上)




                                    Row 5




                                    perpendicular - unordered set - tie? - exclamation - dollar




                                    Then unscramble the image:




                                    enter image description here




                                    And hazard a guess at the next direction, since everybody else seems to be sharing their partials too:




                                    These all are unicode characters of some kind. Particularly of the kind that look like upside-down letters. Write them down, stand on your head, and read.




                                    Like so: (to be finished soon)






                                    ⟂ £ ∅ $
                                    ∨ ヨ ¶
                                    ρ ℈ ∀ |
                                    ð ∃ Λ ! 上
                                    ɔ 3 ꄟ ə Ɑ









                                    share|improve this answer











                                    $endgroup$
















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                                      $begingroup$

                                      Solve original image by rows:



                                      Row 1




                                      Three - existential quantifier - braces / empty set - ? - Latin alpha




                                      Row 2




                                      right semijoin? - katakana yo - small eth - schwa - vertical bar




                                      Row 3




                                      Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - pilcrow




                                      Row 4




                                      open o - pound - scruple - ? - Shang (上)




                                      Row 5




                                      perpendicular - unordered set - tie? - exclamation - dollar




                                      Then unscramble the image:




                                      enter image description here




                                      And hazard a guess at the next direction, since everybody else seems to be sharing their partials too:




                                      These all are unicode characters of some kind. Particularly of the kind that look like upside-down letters. Write them down, stand on your head, and read.




                                      Like so: (to be finished soon)






                                      ⟂ £ ∅ $
                                      ∨ ヨ ¶
                                      ρ ℈ ∀ |
                                      ð ∃ Λ ! 上
                                      ɔ 3 ꄟ ə Ɑ









                                      share|improve this answer











                                      $endgroup$



                                      Solve original image by rows:



                                      Row 1




                                      Three - existential quantifier - braces / empty set - ? - Latin alpha




                                      Row 2




                                      right semijoin? - katakana yo - small eth - schwa - vertical bar




                                      Row 3




                                      Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - pilcrow




                                      Row 4




                                      open o - pound - scruple - ? - Shang (上)




                                      Row 5




                                      perpendicular - unordered set - tie? - exclamation - dollar




                                      Then unscramble the image:




                                      enter image description here




                                      And hazard a guess at the next direction, since everybody else seems to be sharing their partials too:




                                      These all are unicode characters of some kind. Particularly of the kind that look like upside-down letters. Write them down, stand on your head, and read.




                                      Like so: (to be finished soon)






                                      ⟂ £ ∅ $
                                      ∨ ヨ ¶
                                      ρ ℈ ∀ |
                                      ð ∃ Λ ! 上
                                      ɔ 3 ꄟ ə Ɑ










                                      share|improve this answer














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                                      answered 58 mins ago









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