Draw or describe an image to replace the '?'.
WARNING: Contains added color and flavor.
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Reason:
These are how chess figures can move.
Pawn, Queen, Knight, Rook, King, (Bishop)
Additional explanation:
The sunlight in the 1st picture is promotion.
The thing (dandelion?) on the ground is castling.
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This has to be it - nice find! – Deusovi Apr 26 '16 at 11:40
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@BaSzAt: That's it! And although there could obviously be other images that would satisfy the required criterion, this is indeed the one that I had in mind! – KeyboardWielder Apr 26 '16 at 12:03
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1Being vague since I don't know how to spoiler hide in comments: The first image is not missing what you suggest - it is not a special case in the way these things work for itself, just a special case with respect to the external thing. – Chris Apr 26 '16 at 12:11
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@Chris Ah, I see what you're hinting at. Yes, absolutely. – BaSzAt Apr 26 '16 at 12:16
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Oh good. Because I had no idea how to be more precise without being spoilerish. Quite the puzzle in itself. ;-) – Chris Apr 26 '16 at 12:17
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1@Chris: Related: http://meta.puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/4630/puzzling-design-pitch-congratulations-youre-graduating?cb=1#comment9950_4655 – KeyboardWielder Apr 26 '16 at 17:13
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2This seems right! But could there be more? Might be grasping at straws here, but 1. The sun shines uPAWN the ground, 2. The wheel of the ship QUEEN Mary, 3. A flower in the KNIGHT, 4. A Rook is a bird (No poetry here) 5. DandeLION is the KING of the jungle. So for the question, maybe you could do a Rosary with the cross at an angle to form the diagonal lines. – knrumsey May 03 '16 at 22:59
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1@knrumsey: At one point, I was thinking of such added connotations but could only make it work for 3 and 4 (and maybe 5), so I gave up on that idea. Interesting thought for 1! :) – KeyboardWielder May 05 '16 at 18:55
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My guess:
An image of a rainbow
Reasoning:
The shown images seem to fit the story of Noah. At sea in a ship (image 2) for 40 days and nights (images 1 and 3). Noah sent out birds to see if there was land again (image 4) and one returned with a branch (image 5). The story ends with landfall and the rainbow.
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Creative. Fits loosely, though. Image 5 doesn't have a bird and as for image 4 I doubt Noah had a periscope/telescope. :) – KeyboardWielder Apr 26 '16 at 10:33
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My guess.
Image of an anchor.
Reason.
The sight of birds at sea is an indication that land is nearby, in the image after, clearly land is shown. So next step should be to port the ship and drop the "anchor".
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Interesting extrapolation. But that's only taking into consideration 2 of the 5 images; so it's kind of like saying that the next number in the sequence {1,2,3,5,7,...} must be 9 when it should be 11. I'll also add that the images aren't necessarily in a particular sequence. – KeyboardWielder Apr 25 '16 at 18:37
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@humn: Interesting image (and the re-edit makes it even more interesting). Beats me what you had in mind there. :-) But, it looks like you might perhaps be focusing on the right characteristics. – KeyboardWielder Apr 25 '16 at 18:42
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Was just trying to make it look like an anchor, @KeyboardWielder, "matching" the necessary 45-degree essence of the puzzle (the re-edit barely missed the 5-minute precipice) – humn Apr 25 '16 at 19:12
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Right on, @SendersReagent, just hope that Abhishek doesn't mind that they struck here – humn Apr 25 '16 at 19:43
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1The 5th image is actually supposed to look like dandelion seeds, but feel free to think of them as matchsticks if you want. :) – KeyboardWielder Apr 25 '16 at 20:09
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@KeyboardWielder - Well I for one thought they looked like dandelion seeds floating around (with tails) – Jonathan Allan Apr 26 '16 at 00:28
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@KeyboardWielder "the images aren't necessarily in a particular sequence. " by this do you mean you are just looking for an image which is related to the other 5 and sequence of images has nothing to do with the solution ? – Abhishek Apr 26 '16 at 10:41
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