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Fisheiyy

Thread for the 3rd part, Sudoku
so far i have unlocked 2 hints by just using fake spam google accounts i use for non sense when i dont want to give out my real information or use my real main gmail.
hint 1: salmon-man.please-end.me/5rLurzxQw
hint 2: salmon-man.please-end.me/5rLutqYci
solved sudoku puzzle: salmon-man.please-end.me/5rLuV7sRI
presidents secret service names in order according to hind 2: salmon-man.please-end.me/5rLvamGAc
so far all the clues have told me is to try
Scorecard Deacon Lancer Volunteer Timberwolf Searchlight Rawhide Passkey Eagle
or
Providence Deacon Lancer Volunteer Timberwolf Searchlight Rawhide Passkey Eagle
but neither work unless i am doing something wrong

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SOLVED

First hint is to list the presidents and their codenames in order,

second hint says to rearrange to the first puzzle number (the ones we had to solve for) and the order is from top to bottom of the puzzle, so president number order is then 3 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 7 - 5 - 9 - 6
Giving you:

3 Volunteer
1 Scorecard // Providence
2 Lancer
4 Searchlight
7 Rawhide
5 Passkey
9 Eagle
6 Lock Master

third hint says to use second number to then get the letter from each codename
if you do the same order that you took from hint 2 then you get the following:

3 Volunteer 6
1 Scorecard // Providence 5
2 Lancer 6
4 Searchlight 4
7 Rawhide 2
5 Passkey 3
9 Eagle 2
6 Lock Master 9

You take this and you get the following:

T(E/I)RRASAT

the i option that comes from Providence makes less sense as the E would make the word TERRA, or give us our answer of the target satellite that is known as TERRASAT {ANSWER}

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lam

right, so everything in here makes sense to me, until the part where you pulled the correct order of the codenames from.

how did you end up with 3 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 7 - 5 - 9 - 6? im trying to find the sudoku connection to that, but alas ive found nothing.

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lam

nvm figured it out

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Fisheiyy

when you copy all the numbers from the solved sudoku it appears like
6 3 7 2 5 4 9 8 11 2 4 8 9 3 7 5 69 5 8 6 1 7 4 3 22 9 6 4 8 1 5 7 35 4 3 7 6 2 1 9 87 8 1 9 3 5 6 2 44 6 5 3 2 9 8 1 73 7 9 1 4 8 2 6 58 1 2 5 7 6 3 4 9
and the paired numbers come out to 11 69 22 35 87 44 73 58

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Lucas Naylor

Has anyone solved this yet?

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Answer above

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Hypxr • Edited

What does it mean by pairs. I thought it meant the the number in the box and in the corner. eg 36, 35, 26

also it says 9 presidents the preceded Clinton, that doesn't include him so the list should start and Harry S Truman

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DDGiuseppi

I don't know where i'm going wrong or even if this will be useful to someone but this is what i'm using to figure this out.

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JJJayKob

I'm trying to get anything from those codenames and second set of letters and it looks like it could spell "anagram" although that's not all the letters

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JJJayKob

Also did anyone figure out what 'rearrange' in clue #2 reffer to ? how should we rearrange those codenames in refference to the first set of numbers and what should be considered as the first set ?