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Brace yourself to realise that this puzzle is even cleverer than you first think... This is a special one...
The seven-letter answer is:
Why? Firstly:
Next, notice:
To replace the underscores with a seven-letter word, note that:
For this reason, I believe the final sentence the OP is looking for is:
HOWEVER - HOLD THE PHONE... So far this is little ...
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The answer is
This is found by
The result of all of this is:
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Observations
The flags here are
Also, in each circular round of flags, there is
Decoding (two stages)
In each case, I'm
Starting from the innermost ring:
The only one of these which makes sense right away is
Trying that:
Finding meaning
Now we have enough words to
So the 12-letter word is
Feedback section
That was fun! Each step through the ...
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I believe the message being communicated is
Getting the message took a bit of guesswork, but it checks out:
Since
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As tradition requires, here's the finished product first. Progress pictures at the end of the answer.
Theme 1:
Then, we remove the words from the grid, tighten everything up, and repeat for
Theme 2:
Lather, rinse, repeat. Theme 3:
And finally, Theme 4:
Everything below this point is only preserved to show solution progress.
Well. This seems a bit ...
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Overall interpretation
Step 1
Step 2
Now that we have step 1 done...
The solution there is:
Step 3
Okay, so what next?
So, we should apply this step's instruction picture:
Step 4
Finally:
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The answer is
Because
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Final answer: The secret to 'A Radiance Enduring' is:
TL;DR - There are several steps to solving this cipher:
Now for the full explanation, reflecting my solving process... (Including an account of the various errors of judgement I made, and how I repeatedly made this whole thing unnecessarily hard for myself!)
The first thing to note upon considering ...
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Partial Answer
Alphabet grid
This gives
However, we can do the following:
Large grid with instructions
I found only one way of doing this (but this was before the top row was added):
Stars, 4's and 2's
The best fit I found was:
The poem
If we however proceed to
Some final notes
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Very partial answer
The dotted grid
It appears that the puzzle gives a message:
Thoughts on the rest of the puzzle:
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I think that the answer is:
How I got it:
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From the given information we can guess that
Our words are
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Following up on @sarsaparilla's answer:
Reverse engineering it back to the original form (and not worrying about exact colors and fonts, I get:
Like @sarsaparilla, I don't know what to make of the colors.
Edit: Per request, the "solved" grid:
Edit: an observation about the bottom colors and the rows.
Edit:
From @sarsaparilla:
perhaps the bottom ...
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Very partial answer, but hopefully a first step in solving this puzzle.
Seeing the properties of the drawn grid, my first hunch is that we might be looking at a
This is excluding the line of 9 colored boxes at the bottom,
Furthermore, I noticed that
Thinking further,
Another observation:
This is what I have so far. What I haven't figured out yet is ...
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Now
Credit where due:
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The final answer is:
To solve this, first consider the two poems. These provide some clues as to what is expected of us. Most notably:
Turning to the top half of the diagram:
Now for the bottom half of the diagram:
We now have two strings of letters - what do we do with them?
Using the anagram tag means these will rearrange to:
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The first letter is
The last letter is related to
As for the second letter,
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@Glorfindel found the first and last letters of the Product Code™, but sadly he did not notice that
In the case of broccoli,
Therefore, we shall mark the broccoli with the Product Code™
However, don't forget to upvote @Glorfindel's answer as well, for he solved two thirds of the Product Code™ (with help from @El-Guest) :)
P.S.
P.P.S.
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NB I had originally just deduced the final 2 missing letters and the passcode, but since this answer was awarded the green checkmark by the OP for completing the puzzle I am editing in sufficient detail to make this a complete answer. Please note that @Reinier did most of the heavy lifting (5 letters) and @Deusovi contributed significantly too (1 letter and ...
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Building off of David now:
The solved grid is
Now notice that in each row,
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Partial answer - identifying the flags
Each flag seems to be
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The answer is
Following the instructions:
But taking the nth letter gives:
@LannyStrack has realised if
And the last letter should have been an 'M'
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