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Answer: BITE MARK

by Brian Chen, Josh Alman, Toomas Tennisberg, Anderson Wang, Lennart Jansson, Joanna Sands, Evan Chen, Rahul Sridhar, Linus Strese, Jenna Himawan

We are presented with 10 images, each of which involve a stick figure with a question mark over their face, followed by 29 pictures of named characters or celebrities. Some of the people in the pictures share a first name; for example, there are four people named Will.

The key realization is that each image, when paired with one of the unique names, depicts a common phrase that can be misinterpreted as being about a named individual. For example, the fourth image, which shows a person being unlocked from a cage, depicts “FREE WILL”.

Indexing the number of pictures with the name into the matching phrase yields BITE UNUSED. This phrase can be applied to the one remaining picture that isn’t matched—that of Mark Zuckerberg—to produce the final answer: BITE MARK.

The phrases in order:

BABBLING BROOK 1 B
CHRISTMAS CAROL 4 I
HEAT RAY 4 T
FREE WILL 4 E
JUMPING JACK 2 U
HANGING CHAD 3 N
CUT TO THE CHASE 2 U
SAVING GRACE 1 S
FREQUENT FLIER MILES 3 E
GILD THE LILY 4 D

The people/characters listed from left-to-right, top-to-bottom:

Miles Teller, Chad Pennington, Jack Black, Will Smith
Will Shortz, Lily Allen, Carol Danvers (from Marvel Comics), Lily Aldridge
Brook Lopez, Miles Davis, Chad Johnson, Ray Romano, Ray Davies
Will Ferrell, Chase (from PAW Patrol), Lily Tomlin, Jack Nicholson
Mark Zuckerberg, Carol Burnett, Chase Utley, Will Arnett
Carol (from Dilbert), Ray Bradbury, Grace Kelly, Chad Kroeger
Ray Charles, Miles Morales (from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), Lily Collins, Carol Reed

Authors’ Notes

This puzzle was one of several written during a group puzzle-writing session.