that equation is pretty crappy. Start with scorpion. Take off the the 's' and the letters that represent the found number, then add an 'a' to what remains
I'm missing something dumb again I know the objective, and I think I know the combination to do it (although order is potentially vague on the first one), but the string of letters that result from my answer isn't accepted. I even printed and cut out the shapes to verify my moves.