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What form is the answer supposed to be in?

Also, do the spaces represent only one missing number or possibly multiple?

(yes i know there is an edit button but i can't find it)

2459

@Muffin1634 whatever form you like. We just need the complete sequence and a complete explanation about the correct answer

@Swarmlord2 explanation. What is that and how did you get there, whatever it is?

I got 2459 by adding the squares of the individual digits, minus the number in the sequence.
4^2 - 1 = 15
1^2 + 7^2 -4 = 46
4^2 + 6^2 - 5 = 47
Therefore, the first space would be 1^2 + 5^2 - 2 = 24 which also works to calculate 17 because 2^2 + 4^2 - 3 = 17
Then the same to get 59
4^2 + 7^2 - 6 = 59
24 and 59 beside each other make 2459

@Swarmlord2 Correct xD

Challenge closed. Well done

Ivan's Dungeon - Floor 1

Thanks to the quick thinking of one of you, you discover the code that opens the door. Punching '2459' into the keypad unlocks it and you walk free...only to discover the horror outside might in the end make the cell more preferable.

This floor of the dungeon does not look promising at all. All you can find is a large open chest in one of its corners. Nothing else indicates a way to open the only door of that floor to get out of there.

Looking inside the chest you find only one thing. A drawing, onto a piece of cloth:

This magnificent key must be the metaphorical key you need to unlock the door. Speaking of which, the door has another complex mechanism operating it. Instead of a keypad though, all you see is this:

Good luck

Just to clarify because I get that question a lot. The question marks don't have anything to do with the puzzle other than just for appearances

So, it won't help if I say
purple, l.green, red/
pink, d.orange, l.blue/
d.blue, l.orange, d.green?

i think it's sudoku...

(grinning violently) This is great
Just great.
This is a great puzzle. I love it.
yeah. I'm totally not lying.
Anyways, I've been thinking about this with @Boofuss
So, on the key, there are eight colors. While on the board, there are nine. Dark blue is being left out. That either means that dark blue is an unimportant color, or a very important one. With that logic, Boof and I thought "Hey, maybe the dark blue tiles reveal a code."
So, the top left block has one DB tile, top right has 5 tiles, middle has 3 tiles, bottom left has 2, as well as bottom right.

But those numbers have to go in an order. So then we thought, "Maybe the block with most tiles goes first." Top left 26, top right 28, bottom left 27, bottom right 30, middle 24.
So the order is, BR, TR, BL, TL, M. That makes 2, 5, 2, 1, 3. But then again, it could be "Maybe the block with least tiles goes first." And then the order is reversed, 31252.

But all of this is assuming that, each sudoku block is a button to press, since there is no keypad.

Trivia!
There are nine colors in total.
Dark blue tiles appear 13 times.
Red tiles appear 18 times.
Yellow tiles appear 14 times.
Pink tiles appear 14 times.
Dark Green tiles appear 16 times.
Orange tiles appear 17 times.
Purple tiles appear 16 times.
Green tiles appear 12 times.
Blue tiles appear 14 times.
Buuuuuuut you never know maybe I counted wrong.

So, it won't help if I say
purple, l.green, red/
pink, d.orange, l.blue/
d.blue, l.orange, d.green?

Not really I am afraid sorry

And then the order is reversed, 31252.

This is all very interesting. Honestly! I like that. Buuuuut, wrong I am afraid That's not what you have to do in this puzzle. Try thinking it a bit more simply, like Chryos suggested xD I think you've been overthinking it.

@Doombreed oh ._. Well, is that a no to 25231?

It's overthinking because there were two brains thinking on it.
well I hope the trivia helps someone else at least.

Yup, a clear no, you have to do something entirely different xD

Well, this is as much as I care to do.