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By Guy Jacobson
Answer: STEPSISTERS

This is a Disney Princess puzzle! The stick figures are decorated in different styles, corresponding to the set of Disney Princesses, minus Cinderella (who is the “missing maiden” for the purposes of this puzzle). Each Princess stick figure is adorned in a consistent but minimal way: with hair color, skin tone, dress color/style matching these canonical images:

Ariel Aurora Belle Jasmine Merida Mulan Pocahontas Rapunzel Snow White Tiana

Each of the figures is posed per a letter in the Sherlock Holmes “Dancing Men” cipher alphabet:

If you read the corresponding letters for each Princess (from left to right on the page):

and order the Princesses according to the Disney film chronology, you get these letter sequences:
  • TGO - Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937)
  • FAANGO - Aurora (Sleeping Beauty, 1959)
  • RIGOON - Ariel (The Little Mermaid, 1989)
  • AABANDE - Belle (Beauty and the Beast, 1991)
  • SCHOTSCHE - Jasmine (Aladdin, 1992)
  • MURKA - Pocahontas (Pocahontas, 1995)
  • TWOTP - Mulan (Mulan, 1998)
  • QUADRLE - Tiana (The Princess and the Frog, 2009)
  • WTZ - Rapunzel (Tangled, 2010)
  • SMB - Merida (Brave, 2013)

Each of these sequences is the name of a dance, minus two letters:

  • TANGO
  • FANDANGO
  • RIGADOON
  • SARABANDE
  • SCHOTTISCHE
  • MAZURKA
  • TWO-STEP
  • QUADRILLE
  • WALTZ
  • SAMBA

Reading all the first (missing) letters followed by all the second missing letters forms the clue phrase “ANASTASIA AND DRIZELLA,” leading to the answer STEPSISTERS (those are their names in the Disney film Cinderella).