[This is the intended solution to the puzzle-huntish puzzle AOSREMPHE posted earlier]
The puzzle was just this image:
Solution
If you looked at the hint, it stated "AOSREMPHE is an anagram".
One such anagram is SEMAPHORE.
SEMAPHORE is a reference to flag semaphore, commonly used in such puzzles.
Flag Semaphore is used by navies as a way to encode the alphabet to help two ships communicate visually.
For instance, A encodes as
If you look at the first triangle, the angle corresponds to the letter A!
A list of the flag encodings is in the image here:
If you decode the puzzle image, you see that you will get ALTERINGS, which is the same permutation of TRIANGLES, as AOSREMPHE is of SEMAPHORE (ALTERINGS is also an anagram hint a-la cryptic crosswords).
So the intended answer is TRIANGLES.
[The image does contain a bunch of triangles :-)]
The puzzle was just this image:
Solution
If you looked at the hint, it stated "AOSREMPHE is an anagram".
One such anagram is SEMAPHORE.
SEMAPHORE is a reference to flag semaphore, commonly used in such puzzles.
Flag Semaphore is used by navies as a way to encode the alphabet to help two ships communicate visually.
For instance, A encodes as
If you look at the first triangle, the angle corresponds to the letter A!
A list of the flag encodings is in the image here:
If you decode the puzzle image, you see that you will get ALTERINGS, which is the same permutation of TRIANGLES, as AOSREMPHE is of SEMAPHORE (ALTERINGS is also an anagram hint a-la cryptic crosswords).
So the intended answer is TRIANGLES.
[The image does contain a bunch of triangles :-)]
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