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My password is 2
I think the answer is
My password is 2
It is ten too.
My password is seven letters long
four letters is also not wrong
It is fair to say that is is none
but that could be off by one
If you ...
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Gain Access to the Café's Internet
The number you should say is:
We can decode each phrase by ..
There's a special rule, though. The name of the café hints at ...
With this method, the first phrase becomes:
Second phrase:
Third ...
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Speak the password and enter, if you dare
Phew, this took some perseverance! The route through the maze traces the following overlapping path:
To navigate it, we must trace out:
Which means the password - spelled out by the letters hidden ...
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♦ Series - Getting a free donut
You should have answered
to begin with, but now you can answer
to get a free donut.
Bonus confirmation pointed out by Arth, shown in a comment on flu's answer:
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Given these numbers, find the secret word
Assuming a mistake in the problem layout, we could get something with some significance:
The error would be
And with this
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♦ Series - Getting a free donut
For the known-good answers we have so far [EDITED to add: ... but more answers have since been added to the question], the number equals
with the proviso that
In that case, depending on whether we ...
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The princess arrived safely at the castle
I think the answer is:
The poem tells us to:
The lottery numbers tell us to:
The message then gives us:
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'Pointless' US states
The rule can be found by realizing that
Here is how that lazy production team assigned scores:
So the best remaining state is
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Counter, Clock and Wise
Part 1: Solving the Clues
Octashop
User Manual
List of solutions
Part 2: "Navigating" the clock
Part 3: Doing some Math
Amusing easter eggs
The abbreviation "Anko" in the ...
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A free pack of pantyliner if you could guess the number
She replied:
Mila should have said:
Additional notes:
Names:
Pantyliner:
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Can you escape?
Incomplete answer
Clue 1: See QuantumTwinkie's partial answer.
Clue 2:
Clue 3:
I don't know where to go from here.
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The harsh password change
Some of the hints:
6-sided — hexadecimal
28 nibbles — 14 letters coded as 28 hexadecimals
...
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"Free" tickets?
I have a possible answer:
Edit: Thanks to Dan and Sora for pointing me towards a more logical conclusion!
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♦ Series - Getting a free donut
My answer is
Reasoning
Do not use the toilets here. We're washing them.
Donuts by the dozen are $3.
Donuts are mentioned somehow as a secret here, and thus, this is a steganogrophy-related ...
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I went on a world tour and came back home
Answer is
Because
TOEVAQCNXFLEFJRCUYAYQBZAOGAZATVFYHXEYVR???GUNNST
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A secret reception
So we know already that ...
If you look carefully at the mail address...
The important parts of the mail are ...
The password is hidden ...
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What was my luggage password
The number password is
because
as OP's helpful comment points out, the reason for needing exactly a dozen guesses is because of the
from there we can see that the password must be
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My Puzzling Girlfriend
Design Notes
There are a few questions that I have been asked more than once concerning this puzzle so I thought I would do a quick wrap up with composition notes. April 4th is not my birthday, I am ...
Community wiki
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Breaking a systematic password
Updated after the question's correction
I think the next valid password is
Reasoning:
Here is a possible recovery of most of the missing and mistyped characters:
I also added if the password seem ...
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