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                             []||[]|||[]|[]|||[]||[]
                             []|[][][]||[]|[]|[][][][][]|[]|[]|||[]|[]
                             []||[][][][][][][][]|[]|[][][][]|[][][]|[][][][][]|
                             []|[][][]|[]|[][]|[][]|[]|[][]|||[]|[]
                             []|[]|[]||||[][]|[][][]|[][]||[]|||[]|||

Finish the sentence below with the help of the puzzle above.

I solved this puzzle by going.......

Hint 1

A little bit of converting

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    $\begingroup$ I have a feeling the answer is “out of the box” or something along those lines, but can’t prove it… +1. $\endgroup$
    – user79541
    Mar 22 at 17:21
  • $\begingroup$ Are the white margins around the boxes part of the puzzle? $\endgroup$
    – AxiomaticSystem
    Mar 22 at 22:45
  • $\begingroup$ @AxiomaticSystem No they're not part of the puzzle, you can ignore those. $\endgroup$
    – Prim3numbah
    Mar 22 at 22:53
  • $\begingroup$ @Prim3numbah Any hints? $\endgroup$
    – Techidiot
    Apr 17 at 5:17
  • $\begingroup$ @Techidiot Sure. Added a hint. $\endgroup$
    – Prim3numbah
    Apr 18 at 4:59

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I solved this puzzle by going...

in four different directions !

Daniel S already solved the first part so we just needed to solve the bottom part :

The [] can be replaced with 0 and the | can be replaced with 1. So we have :

01101110101110110
01000110101000001010111010
01100000000101000010001000001
010001010010010100111010
0101011110010001001101110111

And the next step :

We can convert the binary numbers to decimal numbers :

56694
18514618
201491521
4531514
91820919

To get letters :

We put spaces in the right places and convert the numbers to letters with a1z26 :

EFFID
RENFR
TNIOU
DECON
IRTIS

By using the path found by Daniel S, we have the answer :

IN FOUR DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS

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  • $\begingroup$ Nice job! Tick incoming $\endgroup$
    – Prim3numbah
    Apr 18 at 9:38
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    $\begingroup$ Bravo! Welcome to the site. $\endgroup$
    – Daniel S
    Apr 18 at 10:22
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I'm not sure

Of the significance of the Square brackets and Pipes

...but I solved this puzzle by going.....

from the centre square according to the direction indicated by the colour: URDRUULLLLDRDLDDRURDRURDR (or perhaps NESENNWWWWSESWSSENESENESE) before exiting to the yellow triangle.

The title

May be an indication that the solution is a Hamiltonian path

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  • $\begingroup$ Nice job. You got the first part. Once you figure out how to interpret the bottom part of the puzzle ("[ ]" and "|") you'll find the specific phrase that's missing. $\endgroup$
    – Prim3numbah
    Mar 23 at 14:57

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