We are looking for an idiom.
Hint 1:
The puzzle contains two strings of information. Finding one helps decrypt the other.
Hint 2:
Endonym
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Sign up to join this communityWe are looking for an idiom.
Hint 1:
The puzzle contains two strings of information. Finding one helps decrypt the other.
Hint 2:
Endonym
Other (independently solvable) puzzles of this type: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10.
I think I got it. The idiom we are looking for is:
RAISE RED FLAG!
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To start,
@eyl327 already decrypted the semaphore part in one of the above comments. Together, the letters spell UAVYIIWLLYAR.
Next,
@eyl327 and @Stiv also found out the country names. The last one happens to be Chad, not Romania.
This is confirmed by comparing the RGB values of the red part of the flag in OP's image, to the red parts of the flags of Romania and Chad (flag images from Wikipedia were used.)
The second hint implies that
We have to look for the endonyms of each country in OP's image. (An endonym is the name of a country in the native language of that country.)
Doing this for each pair of countries gives
India, Ethopia
Bharat (Hindi), Ityop'ia (Amharic)
Turkey, Germany
Turkiye (Turkish), Deutschland (German)
Uzbekistan, Timor Leste
O'zbekiston (Uzbek), Timor-Lorosa'e/Timor-Leste (Tetum/Portuguese)
Lithuania, Israel
Lietuva (Lithuanian), Yisra'el (Hebrew)
Albania, Latvia
Shqiperia (Albanian), Latvija (Latvian)
Marshall Islands, Finland
Aorokin Majel (Marshallese), Suomi (Finnish)
Croatia, (North) Macedonia
Hrvatska (Croatian), Severna Makedonija (Macedonian)
Spain, Vanuatu
Espana (Spanish), Vanuatu (French)
Estonia, Japan
Eesti (Estonian), Nihon/Nippon (Japanese)
Tajikistan, Armenia
Tojikistan (Tajiki-Persian), Hayastan (Armenian)
French Polynesia, Jordan
Polynesie francaise (French), Al-'Urdun (Arabic)
Dominican Republic, Chad
Republica Dominicana (Spanish), Tchad/Tsad (French/Arabic)
Taking the first letters and putting them together gives
BITDOTLYSLASHSEVENTHPART.
This is a link! Going to bit.ly/seventhpart gives us text that says:
Taking this and the first hint, it seems that we do need to use
the Vigenere cipher to decrypt.
And what do we decrypt? Well, there's one string discovered from the start, which was UAVYIIWLLYAR. And we have the key (DANGERSIGNAL) as well!
Using the Vigenere cipher, decrypting the former string using the latter string as the key, we get the final answer above, RAISEREDFLAG.