Each image is a fragment from the logo of an NBA team. The teams are as follows:
New Orleans Hornets | Los Angeles Clippers | San Antonio Spurs | Minnesota Timberwolves | Oklahoma City Thunder |
Minnesota Timberwolves | Oklahoma City Thunder | Boston Celtics | Sacramento Kings | Toronto Raptors |
New Jersey Nets | Indiana Pacers | Utah Jazz | Memphis Grizzlies | Atlanta Hawks |
Minnesota Timberwolves | Memphis Grizzlies | Detroit Pistons | Houston Rockets | Milwaukee Bucks |
Chicago Bulls | Philadelphia 76ers | Golden State Warriors | Washington Wizards | Portland Trail Blazers |
The set of teams that appear here is the set of teams that made the first 25 picks in the 2010 NBA draft, and the teams that appear multiple times are those that made multiple picks in that first round. The title of the puzzle confirms that the "draft" is relevant. (In fact, the order of the logo fragments in the grid is alphabetical by the name of the drafted player.)
Mousing over each image gives a line of turtle-drawing code from the programming language Logo, as listed below. (The teams that appear more than once have the same Logo command in each of their appearances.) Sort the teams into the order of their draft picks, as below:
Washington Wizards | sety -55 fd 15 rt 90 |
Philadelphia 76ers | fd 20 rt 90 |
New Jersey Nets | lt 90 |
Minnesota Timberwolves | lt 180 |
Sacramento Kings | fd 40 rt 90 |
Golden State Warriors | rt 135 |
Detroit Pistons | lt 45 |
Los Angeles Clippers | fd 20 lt 90 |
Utah Jazz | fd 40 |
Indiana Pacers | lt 135 |
New Orleans Hornets | rt 45 |
Memphis Grizzlies | repeat 45 [fd 1 rt 1] |
Toronto Raptors | repeat 180 [fd 1 rt 1] |
Houston Rockets | repeat 90 [fd 1 rt 1] |
Milwaukee Bucks | repeat 225 [fd 1 rt 1] |
Minnesota Timberwolves | lt 180 |
Chicago Bulls | penup |
Oklahoma City Thunder | repeat 270 [fd 1 rt 1] |
Boston Celtics | repeat 270 [fd 1 lt 1] |
San Antonio Spurs | rt 180 |
Oklahoma City Thunder | repeat 270 [fd 1 rt 1] |
Portland Trail Blazers | pendown |
Minnesota Timberwolves | lt 180 |
Atlanta Hawks | repeat 135 [fd 1 rt 1] |
Memphis Grizzlies | repeat 45 [fd 1 rt 1] |
Running the lines of Logo code in this order produces the following drawing:
This is the symbol for the planet Mercury, and MERCURY is the answer to the puzzle.