We are presented with a series of 12 black and white images depicting various strange scenes and 12 number strings. We also note that each image has a string of numbers (many low numbers such as 1s) in the lower-right corner.
The square tiles with the numbers in the lower right, as well as the title, hint at Scrabble, a game where letters are assigned number values, and words made of those letters have associated numerical scores. But everyone knows that T counts for 1 in Scrabble! Or, at least, in English…
We turn back to the images. Some look like cartoon scenes, some are oddly specific, and others downright bizarre. Many feature animals, such as a fox jumping over a relaxing dog. This reminds us of the pangram THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG. But what about the others? Some internet searches lead us to the discovery that the images represent pangrams in different languages (a list can be found at https://clagnut.com/blog/2380). Moreover, the numbers in the lower right are the Scrabble values for those languages, using the languages' Scrabble point value systems.
The images are given in alphabetical order by the pangram language, which are as follows:
| Language | In own language | Scrabble tile values for language |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | Български | 2 3 2 3 1 1 1 2 1 |
| Croatian | Hrvatski | 4 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 |
| Dutch | Nederlands | 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 1 2 2 |
| English | English | 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 |
| French | Français | 4 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 |
| German | Deutsch | 1 1 1 1 1 4 2 |
| Italian | Italiana | 1 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 |
| Lithuanian | Lietuvių | 2 1 1 1 1 4 1 6 |
| Polish | Polski | 2 1 2 1 2 1 |
| Russian | Русский | 1 2 1 1 2 1 4 |
| Slovene | Slovenščina | 1 1 1 2 1 1 6 5 1 1 1 |
| Spanish | Español | 1 1 3 1 8 1 1 |
We then turn to the number strings. Indeed, they represent Scrabble values for the words given in the pangrams. Except, we notice one oddity: all the images have something extra present. For example, there is a bull in the quick brown fox image. There is likewise an extra number in the number string. It does not quite correspond to the extra item, so we need to take the difference between the extra number and the Scrabble value of the extra object. We also notice that the extra object's Scrabble values are not only unique, but consecutive from 4 to 15. Ordering by the extra word's Scrabble value and converting the differences to letters using A1Z26, we get the answer THE GAZA STRIP.
| Language | Pangram | English | Scrabble scores (extra indicated) | Extra, Translation, Score | Difference, A1Z26 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French | Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume. | Bring this old whiskey to the blond smoking judge. | 17 4 17 24 36 2 12 8 10 8 | rose ROSE 4 | 20 | T |
| Croatian | Gojazni đačić s biciklom drži hmelj i finu vatu u džepu nošnje | The overweight little schoolboy with a bike is holding hops and fine cotton in the pocket of his attire | 11 13 20 1 17 9 11 1 11 5 1 14 11 | cake TORTA 5 | 8 | H |
| English | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog | 6 11 20 10 13 16 7 6 16 5 | bull BULL 6 | 5 | E |
| Russian | Съешь ещё этих мягких французских булок да выпей же чаю | Eat some more of these soft French buns and drink some tea | 23 14 15 16 14 34 10 3 12 6 14 | crown КОРОНА 7 | 7 | G |
| Spanish | El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi. La cigüeña tocaba el saxofón detrás del palenque de paja. | The quick Hindu bat was happily eating thistle and kiwi. The stork played the saxophone behind the straw palisade. | 9 2 17 14 9 8 17 16 4 18 2 16 9 2 17 7 4 17 3 11 | tomato TOMATE 8 | 1 | A |
| Bulgarian | Под южно дърво, цъфтящо в синьо, бягаше малко пухкаво зайче. | A little fluffy young rabbit ran under a southern tree blooming in blue | 4 14 9 38 2 14 20 8 17 16 35 | spider ПАЯК 9 | 26 | Z |
| German | Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern. | Franz drives all across Bavaria in a totally run-down taxi. | 10 10 4 18 23 11 11 13 9 17 | cat KATZE 10 | 1 | A |
| Italian | In quel campo si trovan funghi in abbondanza | In that field, mushrooms are to be found in abundance | 4 17 12 3 14 28 30 4 33 | broom SCOPA 11 | 19 | S |
| Slovene | V kožuščku hudobnega fanta stopiclja mizar | A cabinetmaker steps lightly through a malicious boy fur coat | 2 34 22 14 18 10 32 | apple JABOLKO 12 | 20 | T |
| Polish | Pchnąć w tę łódź jeża lub ośm skrzyń fig | Push into this boat a hedgehog or eight boxes of figs | 19 1 7 19 10 8 8 14 31 9 | drum BĘBEN 13 | 18 | R |
| Lithuanian | Įlinkdama fechtuotojo špaga sublykčiojusi pragręžė apvalų arbūzą | Incurving fencer sword sparkled and perforated a round watermelon | 19 41 23 14 29 30 17 30 | bird PAUKŠTIS 14 | 9 | I |
| Dutch | Pa's wijze lynx bezag vroom het fikse aquaduct | Dad's wise lynx piously regarded the substantial aqueduct | 6 15 20 12 31 11 7 11 29 | scissors SCHAAR 15 | 16 | P |