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

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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.







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                Row 1




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




                Row 2




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




                Row 3




                Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - ?




                Row 4




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




                Row 5




                perpendicular - unordered set - tie? - exclamation - dollar




                Then unscramble the image:



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                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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                      enter image description here




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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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                            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.







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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.







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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.







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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.








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                                          $begingroup$

                                          Solve original image by rows:



                                          Row 1




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




                                          Row 2




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




                                          Row 3




                                          Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - ?




                                          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 ⁀ ə









                                          share|improve this answer











                                          $endgroup$


















                                            0












                                            $begingroup$

                                            Solve original image by rows:



                                            Row 1




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




                                            Row 2




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




                                            Row 3




                                            Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - ?




                                            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 ⁀ ə









                                            share|improve this answer











                                            $endgroup$
















                                              0












                                              0








                                              0





                                              $begingroup$

                                              Solve original image by rows:



                                              Row 1




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




                                              Row 2




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




                                              Row 3




                                              Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - ?




                                              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 ⁀ ə









                                              share|improve this answer











                                              $endgroup$



                                              Solve original image by rows:



                                              Row 1




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




                                              Row 2




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




                                              Row 3




                                              Rho - Or - Capital lambda - universal quantifier - ?




                                              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 ⁀ ə










                                              share|improve this answer














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