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It happened by chance really. I was walking out from the bank when a man ran into me while rushing out. During our collision a piece of paper fell from his pocket.

I quickly picked it up and tried to call out to him, but he had vanished. I then looked at the note and was instantly intrigued.

It said:

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Be where?

I looked further down the note and saw something strange. It had a piece of music taped to it:

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Below in a scribble it said:

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I'm not sure what all this meant. So I continued to look at the note.

I turned the paper over and my heart sank. It was a blueprint of the very building I was in!

Below the blueprint was an object and strange text circled.

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Were these instructions on when to rob this bank?!

I had to solve the puzzle so I could go to the police. But how to solve it?

So answer me this:

What time was the heist?

What were they going to steal?

Hint 0:

The : in the music staff normally means repeat, it does not.

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They were stealing

a diamond at 23:25.

The notes read

AABBAABA AABBAABB : AABBAABA AABBABAB

Alpha Centauri A & B are a binary star system, hinting that we need to use binary to translate this.

So, convert to binary (A=0, B=1):
00110010 00110011 : 00110010 00110101

Which in ASCII reads 23:25

Modified Newtonian Dynamics is

abbreviated MOND, and prefixed with the "die" we get diamond.

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    $\begingroup$ Oh god, in my language we don't call that note B but H. That's not fair :) $\endgroup$
    – Sulthan
    Dec 29, 2018 at 19:13
  • $\begingroup$ @Sulthan Mine too ;) $\endgroup$
    – Jafe
    Dec 29, 2018 at 19:16
  • $\begingroup$ That’s quite interesting! $\endgroup$
    – SolveLikeBeaker
    Dec 29, 2018 at 23:45

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