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What's going on in this grid? What do the rows and column labels means? Why is it "upside down"?

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I II III IV
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B Maseru Mbabane Lilongwe Yerevan
C enter image description here enter image description here enter image description here enter image description here
D Vietnam Panama Syria Micronesia
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  • $\begingroup$ If you want to slightly influence the formatting you can use newlines (<br>) for vertical alignment and &nbsp for horizontal alignment. Also, now that the images are split up, you can add image descriptions for each -- assuming that e.g. "flag of X" or "silhouette of Y rotated 90 degrees" wouldn't be too big a hint. I think probably the identification is supposed to be easy and finding the connection is the puzzle. Finally, might be better to put the flags on a background so that the white doesn't blend in to the table. $\endgroup$ Commented yesterday
  • $\begingroup$ Does this puzzle require the use of a national-specific version of world map? (e.g., the American version that put America in the middle of map, to draw figures on it) $\endgroup$ Commented 23 hours ago
  • $\begingroup$ Nope, not map specific. Only depends on geography facts that I'm 100% sure are uncontroversial. $\endgroup$ Commented 22 hours ago

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Row A:

The country names hide the numbers in their respective column: Indonesia, Tuvalu ("two"), Trinidad and Tobago, Qatar (quad/quarter/"quat"ernary). A stands for Alphabet

Row B:

Number of bordering countries of the given capital's country: Lesotho (1), Eswatini (2), Malawi (3), Armenia (4)

Row C:

The capitals of these countries (South Korea, Ireland, Libya, Ukraine) hide the numbers 1-4: Seoul (pronounced like "sole"), Dublin (Doublin'), Tripoli (tri-), Kyiv (IV)

Row D:

Number of stars in the flag's d(?)esign, which neatly maps from 1-4 again.
Vietnam Panama Syria Micronesia

It's upside down because

The mechanisms behind the displayed items are "flipped" vertically. E.g. flags are in Row A, but they're used in Row D. Capitals in row B are used in row C. Same for the country shape (map) and country names in row C and D.

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  • $\begingroup$ Max fxvatgblf bl vhkkxvm! T blg'm tkxt mahnza, bm'l Teiatuxm (temahnza Tkxt bl t uxmmxk venx). Yhk V, vtibmtel bl kbzam, unm rhn'kx fbllbgz lhfxmabgz (Abgm: patm whxl Lxhne lhngw ebdx?) $\endgroup$ Commented 5 hours ago
  • $\begingroup$ @RushabhMehta reveal spoiler Ah I see now, I assume the first one was Indonesia, not Monaco. Definitely like that more than area, fits way better with the columns $\endgroup$ Commented 5 hours ago
  • $\begingroup$ It was monaco, but works either way haha. How do you do comment spoilers, by the way? $\endgroup$ Commented 5 hours ago
  • $\begingroup$ @RushabhMehta lol xD The spoiler syntax is [ ! spoiler here ! ] (no spaces) more info here $\endgroup$ Commented 5 hours ago

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