Guess the constellation — Answer for Round Two

Round two, the answer

Fourteen of our postcard warriors and Ukrainian friends shone together as one figure with no name, and what joined them was this: every one of them teaches, studies, or carried the project into a school, a heritage school or a summer camp. Three of them teach in Ukraine — a preschool in Nikopol, a dance class in Ivano-Frankivsk, an art lyceum in Smila where 250 children study between generator refuels. The others teach, or learn, in Canada, Australia, the United States, Spain and Costa Rica. Classrooms, on both shores.

They are lit in gold now, and the figure has its name back. Look for The Classroom in the Constellations module.

Guesses closed on 20 October.

No winner this round either

Nobody found it this time. Round two closes without a winner, as round one did.

We were not looking for exact words. Anything in the neighbourhood would have counted — education, teaching, studying, teachers, students, schools, classrooms, learning. Any one of those would have won the envelope. Even so, no correct answer reached us.

That is worth saying plainly, because it tells us the puzzle is set too deep rather than too narrowly. A thread you can only find by noticing the same idea recurring across several interviews asks for patience more than insight. So round three will carry a hint on the mystery card about the kind of thing the answer is — a profession, a place, a way of finding us — so that reading two or three stars is enough to put you on the scent.

Thank you to everyone who sent a guess. You read the sky; we simply hid this one too well.

How the game works

Every two months, one figure raises up in the night sky without name.

In the Constellations module, a group of our postcard writers shines together as a single figure — but nothing tells you what they share. One hidden thread connects every star in it. Working it out is the game.

The clues are all in their published interviews. Wander the sky, click any star, and read that person’s story. The answer is somewhere in there.

To enter

1. Open the exhibition and switch to the Constellations module.
2. Look at who is up there, and decide what they all have in common.
3. Press Send your guess on the mystery card and type your answer — or simply email it to deldal@gmail.com.

Everyone with the right answer goes into a draw to win an envelope full of postcards from Linda’s collection — perfect for writing your own messages to Ukraine’s Defenders, or for your personal projects.

What happens after the 20th

Guesses close on the 20th, every second month, in step with the newsletter.

In the weeks that follow, while the team is at work on the next issue, we post the answer on the website, draw a winner from among the correct entries, and notify them by email.

The winner is announced publicly too — in the newly published issue and here on the website — under whatever name they would like to be known by. Their own name, a nickname, or simply “anonymous”, if they would rather not be named. The choice is entirely theirs, and we always ask before anything is published.

Then, with the release of the newest newsletter, a fresh constellation goes up in the sky, and the guessing begins again.

Round three

The next figure goes up when the September–October newsletter is published, and guesses will close on 20 December 2026.

Until then the sky belongs to The Classroom, named at last.