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Solution to Pinky and the Brain

Star Rats

Answer: HYBRID
by Sofiya Cremin

They're Laboratory Mice, Their Genes Have Been Spliced...

The image is made up of spliced together photos of 6 famous people named Gene.

The photo of each Gene is cut into X vertical strips, where X is the number of letters in their last name, so each strip represents a particular letter.

The strips are arranged to spell 6 words, with one letter missing from each. The missing letters, read clockwise from the top, spell out the answer: HYBRID

WILDER + TIERNEY: T(H)IRDLY
TIERNEY + SISKEL: KE(Y)LINE
SISKEL + SHALIT: ESTA(B)LISH
SHALIT + HACKMAN: (R)AKISH
HACKMAN + SIMMONS: MIN(I)CAM
SIMMONS + WILDER: SWOR(D)SMEN