Letter From A Friend

Let's Connect the Dots

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The first clue

Doc received another cryptic letter from Dr. Zaius and handed it to his scientists to decode. To begin, the 9 pieces need to be assembled into a 9x9 grid as shown.

The Completed Grid

All 81 squares then needed to be identified, where thankfully, Dr. Zaius provided a chart to aid in the identification of all 81 items. There were 9 categories with 9 related items each

City Anagram	Birthstone	Breakfast Food	Beatles Song	Comic Strip	Robots	SuperHero Actors	Cryptocurrencies	Actresses
4,2 Ames, IA	10 Aquamarine	7 5 Avocado Toast	4 2 3 1.1.1.1. Back in the U.S.S.R	5 Baldo	6 Baymax	3 7 Ben Affleck	7 Bitcoin	8 6 Brigitte Bardot
8, 2 Columbus, OH	7 Diamond	5 Bacon	5 2 3 Drive my Car	6 3 6 Dennis the Menace	9 Bumblebee	6 7 Dwayne Johnson	7 Cardano	9 3 Courteney Cox
5 3, 2 Green Bay, WI	7 Emerald	9 Croissant	7 5 Eleanor Rigby	3 3 5 Dot and Ditto	1-3 C-3PO	3 5 Gal Gadot	9 Chainlink	4 6 Dana Delany
12, 2 Indianapolis, IN	6 Garnet	4 8 Eggs Benedict	5, 7 Hello, Goodbye	8 Franklin	3 6 Dot Matrix	5 6 Henry Cavill	8 Dogecoin	6 7 Farrah Fawcett
6, 2 Laredo, TX	4 Opal	7 6 English Muffin	4 2 3 3 4 8 Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds	4, 5 3 5 Huey, Dewey and Louie	4 Gort	5 5 Jason Momoa	8 Ethereum	5 4 Helen Hunt
3 5, 2 Las Vegas, NV	5 Pearl	10 5 Everything Bagel	2-2-2, 2-2-2 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da	7 6 Jazmine Dubois	13 Mechagodzilla	6 6 Margot Robbie	8 Polkadot	4 3 Lucy Liu
9, 2 Nashville, TN	7 Peridot	6 5 Orange Juice	6 Texman	6 6 5 Little Orphan Annie	7 Robo Cop	3 6 Ray Fisher	7 Stellar	7 6 Marilyn Monroe
3 5, 2 San Diego, CA	4 Ruby	8 Pancakes	6 9 Yellow Submarine	6 4 Richie Rich	3 4 5 The Iron Giant	4 8 Ryan Reynolds	6 Tether	5 4 Niecy Nash
7, 2 Seattle, WA	8 Sapphire	6 Waffle	3 3'1 2 4 You Can't Do That	4'3 Swee'Pea	4-1 Wall-E	7 4 Zachary Levi	3 XRP	5 8 Susan Sarandon

The 81 items contained 9 items with the word DOT in them (ie. Gal GaDOT) that could be highlighted on the grid.

The 9 dots

Solving the sudoku also given by Dr. Zaius gives a 9x9 grid that can be overlaid onto the 9x9 grid of items.

The Solved Sudoku

This revealed that the 9 items resided on top of the numbers 1-9, which the dots could be connected as hinted by Dr. Zaius saying "connect the dots"

Connecting the Dots

This revealed a pattern needed Dr. Zaius's last words of wisdom to "send me a letter--could be from anywhere", which indicated this was a single letter glyph from some alphabet used in the world. The identified character this visually represents is א or ALEPH from the Hebrew Alphabet.