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Solution to Communicating With The Aliens

Sci-Ficisco

Answer: FIRST CONTACT LENS
by Eric Berlin and Justin Ladia
Art by Justin Ladia

The answers in this round are:

The alien symbols can be mapped to lowercase letters as follows:

The first letters of the 11 answers spell A WORD SEARCH, and indeed, once the answers are translated into their symbols, the grid is a standard word search. The leftover symbols can be mapped to letters to spell FIRST CONTACT LENS.

c
C
[hkl]
L
[aeiou]
OA
[mnr]
M
[bd]
DB
[aeiou]
A
[hkl]
K
[aeiou]
E
[mnr]
R
[aeiou]
E
[ft]
F
[jy]
Y
[hkl]
H
[aeiou]
E
[aeiou]
I
[mnr]
R
[aeiou]
E
[aeiou]
AE
[ft]
T
[hkl]
L
[sz]
S
[aeiou]
I
[sz]
S
[sz]
S
[bd]
D
[mnr]
N
[aeiou]
A
[aeiou]
I
[ft]
T
[ft]
TT
[sz]
S
[mnr]
M
[vw]
W
[aeiou]
O
c
C
[mnr]
R
[vw]
VW
[hkl]
H
[aeiou]
IE
[ft]
TTT
[aeiou]
EOO
[sz]
SZ
[aeiou]
O
x
X
[bd]
D
[aeiou]
A
[aeiou]
O
[mnr]
RR
[aeiou]
AOO
[aeiou]
IIAO
[mnr]
N
[bd]
B
[aeiou]
O
[vw]
VW
[aeiou]
U
[mnr]
N
[bd]
BD
[mnr]
RR
[mnr]
N
[aeiou]
E
[ft]
T
[aeiou]
A
[aeiou]
A
[gpq]
Q
[sz]
S
[aeiou]
AU
[jy]
Y
[aeiou]
E
c
C
[sz]
S
[ft]
T
[mnr]
R
[aeiou]
A
[aeiou]
E
[mnr]
R
[hkl]
L
[sz]
S
[aeiou]
E
[mnr]
N
[sz]
S
[hkl]
K