Whites of Their Eyes

Question

_{This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx}

Encoding where F equals seventy

_____ Tenkula, a heavy metal musician

Vadodara financial services company & bank

Tall brother in Super Mario

Tomohiro _____, a Japanese professional wrestler

We want more puzzles from you, SeptaCube, cool and simple like this one. — JLee, Jul 22 '23 at 00:27

caPNCApn · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-01T05:52:06.060

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First we solve the clues noticing that

they are all 5 letters long and there are a lot of I's in them

ASCII Encoding where F equals seventy
MIIKA _____ Tenkula, a heavy metal musician
ICICI Vadodara financial services company & bank
LUIGI Tall brother in Super Mario
ISHII Tomohiro _____, a Japanese professional wrestler

Then we

according to the title, color the I's white

Then

interpreting each 5-letter word as a 5-digit binary number with white I's as 1's and others as 0's, we get the numbers 3 12 21 5 19

Using

A1Z26 we get the word CLUES

We look at the

clues. Each is five words. Some words have I's and some don't.

Taking

the words with I's as 1's and the ones without as 0's we again get 5 5-digit binary numbers: 16 1 12 5 18

Again using

A1Z26 we get the word: PALER which aptly describes the whites of their eyes

edited Aug 01 '22 at 05:52

answered Aug 01 '22 at 05:21

caPNCApn

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Good work so far, but you don't have the answer yet! – SeptaCube Aug 01 '22 at 05:37
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@SeptaCube even cooler! Eye think eye got it now ;) – caPNCApn Aug 01 '22 at 05:52
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@op This is amazing! So many subpuzzles in such a short text! Kudos for you! – melfnt Aug 01 '22 at 09:29

Whites of Their Eyes

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