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Here is a story. It has 22 parts that were scrambled (each part in one line).

:️∃>❔

❕️→→⛰️⚡⏬☠️

❤️=

:‍

☀️⚒️

⏪❤️

:️∃>❔

:☠️

⚒️→

⛄:✂️❄️→✂️❤️→❄️

❄️

‍←❤️

☠️⚰️

→️→→️→→️️️

:️∃>❔:❤️

❤️:⏩

⏩→

⏩⚰️:️→

→☠️→⚰️

‍→❤️→

→:→→

Can you unscramble it, describe what each step means and retell the story? What is the title? Can you list all the characters?

Hints:

  1. There is more than one possible order because there some steps that happens in parallel involving different characters in different places but at roughly the same time. Any reasonable sequence will do.

  2. There are many different versions of this story around and they vary a lot. I tried to tell one that should be roughly what the most frequently told one is, although it might not be exactly that.

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⏪❤️

Back in time, the king was married to the queen

⛄:✂️❄️→✂️❤️→❄️

In the winter ⛄, the queen sits sewing ✂️ on a black (ebony?) windowsill , with snow outside ❄️ in the forest . She pricks her finger ✂️ and blood drips ❤️ on to the snow ❄️.

❄️

The queen wishes for a baby with skin as white as snow ❄️, lips as red as blood , and hair as black as ebony

☠️⚰️

The queen gives birth (haha) to a baby , dies in childbirth ☠️⚰️, and the king is sad

❤️=

The king remarries and Snow White's new stepmother / is wicked

:️∃>❔

The stepmother asks ❔ the magic mirror ️ if there exists ∃ anyone fairer than her. It says no

⏩→

Fast forward, Snow White is grown up now (and has become more beautiful)

:️∃>❔

The stepmother asks ❔ the magic mirror ️ if there exists ∃ anyone fairer than her. It says yes , Snow White

:☠️

The stepmother is shocked and angry , she plans to have Snow white killed ☠️

‍←❤️

The stepmother pays a huntsman ‍ to kill Snow White and bring her her heart ❤️

The huntsman ‍ sees Snow White , he takes pity on her and tells her to run

‍→❤️→

The huntsman ‍ kills an animal and gives it heart to the queen →❤️→ (does she eat it?? )

→️→→️→→️️️

Snow White is scared , befriends woodland creatures ... who lead her through the woods to a messy house ️, which she tidies →️️️

⚒️→

The 7 dwarves are mining ⚒️ in the mountains, get home at night, see Snow White , they are shocked , decide to let her stay , (and sing a song or something? )

:️∃>❔:❤️

The stepmother asks ❔ the mirror ️ whether there exists ∃ anyone fairer than her >, and Snow White is, because it was actually an animal's heart ❤️

:‍

The stepmother is angry the huntsman lied ‍

☀️⚒️

In the daytime ☀️ the dwarves ... are away mining ⚒️ in the mountains

→:→→

The stepmother disguises herself as an old woman , poisons an apple , goes to visit Snow White who eats the apple , becomes ill and falls into a deep sleep

❕️→→⛰️⚡⏬☠️

The animals ... chase the stepmother to the mountains where lightning ⚡ strikes the cliff and she falls ⏬ to her death ☠️

→☠️→⚰️

The dwarves ... go home and think Snow White is dead. They're upset . They bury her in a glass casket ⚰️ in the woods

⏩⚰️:️→

Fast forward ⏩, the prince sees Snow White in the glass casket ⚰️, kisses her , she wakes up and it's love at first sight . The dwarves and woodland creatures are thankful

❤️:⏩

The prince marries Snow White , they live happily ever after ⏩


I think the colon : is used for something specific. Maybe

"such that", given that ∃ is also used

but it doesn't seem to fit

Michael
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It looks to be

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Some of the characters:

: Snow White
: her stepmother, the evil queen
: the seven dwarves, Bashful, Doc, Grumpy, Dopey, Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy (not entirely sure of the order)
‍: the huntsman / prince

Glorfindel
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