...when the NSA recruitment office makes pr0n. Legit spooky Dev, top marks. (Hello Langley!)
The solutions the game's code checks against are all hashed. Looking there won't help. The dev doesn't make it that easy.
However, the answers are all converted to lower case before checking, so casing isn't an issue.
Encrypting the answer file is pure Cicada3301 territory. Or the NSA.
Hailey (yellow)
"I am an array of Saturn, from based to sated"
"based" and "sated" are almost anagrams of each other. No idea what an "array of Saturn" is in the first place. I was thinking moons but that didn't get me anywhere. Searching for anagrams of "Saturn" itself also didn't help.
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The piece of paper just shows an empty square on the bottom left. Though notably, it's the only time the clue isn't somewhat centered on the paper. It's also the only one where the surrounding letters of the alphabet don't start at a and end at z, instead starting at x and ending at c.
Array:
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based > sated
Use non-binary base? Letter swapping? (b > s; t > s)?
DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW -- missing letters from top left (20)
Saturn: rings 12 (out of date, but hey); hexagon formation on top (6); most famous "array" of Saturn is Cassini:
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Cassini was active in space for (nearly) 20 years, which ties in with the number of missing letters.
The .png suggests that the matrix (array) should be six squares which aligns with using base 6.
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Given the proportions of the ladies in this, it'd be a really funny joke if the answer was in base 6 (it's actually used IRL by a small number of cultures, including YAM counting. So.. a South Asian "melons" joke?)
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Anyhow: chances are if you finish the game you
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