E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Computational Puzzles

One day SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence) got the message from the E.T. / alien as shown next.

Now help SETI to decode this message.

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Solution:

The message of E.T. is “Hello”. If you mask the message image with an actual 9X9 chess board, an output image will resemble ‘Hello’ word.