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The day has arrived! You had always heard of the Puzzling Society, but today you received a letter from their official headquarters. You tear it open quickly, and you almost drop it because you are so excited. It reads:

Hello, and welcome to the prestigious Puzzling Society; this letter is your official invitation. Yes, it is also a puzzle (honestly, what else would you expect). All of the information necessary to solve it is contained either in this letter or the enclosed image. Love and luck I wish to you as you attempt to solve it, and I hope that I shall see you shortly for your first meeting.

With best regards,
Head Puzzler

P.S. We'll meet by the rock. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Contact me at:
[email protected]

Image:

puzzle image

What does the image mean, and where is your first meeting?

Hint:

Sorry about the imperfections of the image. I'm not that great at MS.

Hint 2:

Puede que estés buscando en el idioma equivocado.

Hint 3:

Each section of the “flag” corresponds to a single word. But what could the different colors mean?

Hint 4:

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Hint 5:

There is a built-in check for the word search that isn't in the image, and it will also prove useful for another of the puzzles.

Hint 6:

As per the arrow near the red section of the flag, the solution method for the black section should lead to the solution method for the red section.

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  • $\begingroup$ Did you mean to say Paint in the first hint? $\endgroup$
    – m4n0
    Dec 4, 2022 at 7:23
  • $\begingroup$ You could relate it to MicroSoft paint, yes. However, it's implications go beyond just that, and are not solely related to my lack of knowledge regarding the usage of paint. $\endgroup$
    – PiGuy314
    Dec 4, 2022 at 17:46
  • $\begingroup$ Well, I do know about the grid. But I am not sure about the colours. Is that yellow in the upper right corner? $\endgroup$
    – ACB
    Dec 8, 2022 at 12:27
  • $\begingroup$ The upper right six squares in the grid are a tan color, or at least they are intended to be so. As for the letters surrounding the grid, they are all red. $\endgroup$
    – PiGuy314
    Dec 8, 2022 at 14:50
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    $\begingroup$ Not sure if my WS is fully correct, but MS surely fits perfectly :) i.stack.imgur.com/mVC51.png $\endgroup$
    – Lukas Rotter
    Dec 9, 2022 at 9:52

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For the first part, we can extract 9 words hidden in the grid, wordsearch style. The kick is, they are in...

Spanish! You can see the words Hola, Sí, Una, Adios, Todo, Con, Eres, Amor, Niño.

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The leftover letters form another word,

"Que", meaning "What".

Not sure on how to proceed next for the second word, but i suspect

Minesweeper

is part of the solution

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  • $\begingroup$ I get the feeling though that not all the words you've found will be relevant - note Hint 5, and the fact that rot13(znal bs gurfr ner gur Fcnavfu rdhvinyragf bs gur jbeqf gung ortva rnpu bs gur fragraprf va gur yrggre: Uryyb, Lrf, Nyy, Ybir, Jvgu... Bguref znl whfg or erq ureevatf.) $\endgroup$
    – Stiv
    Dec 13, 2022 at 23:53
  • $\begingroup$ @Stiv, I hadn't noticed that. Still, I tried highlighting only those relevant words and it doesn't look any more meaningful (at least I got that hidden three letter word when marking every word (?)) $\endgroup$
    – Arturo Vial Arqueros
    Dec 14, 2022 at 3:37

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