The Scheme
by Alex Irpan, Brian Shimanuki, and Olga Vinogradova
Answer: EYE OF PROVIDENCE
The feeders for this meta are:
AVENUE Q
BRITAIN
INCEPTION
NINTENDO
PICO
SEA OF DECAY
Considering the feeders, we need to notice that if we considered each word individually, we have 9 words of lengths 1 to 9:
Q
OF
SEA
PICO
DECAY
AVENUE
BRITAIN
NINTENDO
INCEPTION
Now, considering the diagram, assign numbers 1 to 45 in a spiral:
Take the letters that each number lands on to get the answer EYE OF PROVIDENCE
| 25 | E |
| 5 | Y |
| 32 | E |
| 4 | O |
| 2 | F |
| 13 | P |
| 36 | R |
| 10 | O |
| 37 | V |
| 44 | I |
| 30 | D |
| 6 | E |
| 7 | N |
| 26 | C |
| 45 | E |
Authors' Notes
At one point, the answers BRITAIN and SEA OF DECAY were GREAT BRITAIN and SEA OF CORRUPTION. When verifying the feeders, we found that Sea of Corruption and Sea of Decay were both alternate translations of the same place from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Both seemed to be accepted, but SEA OF DECAY looked slightly more canonical, as it was translated this way in the official English subtitles of the anime.