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Observations

18 characters with the right amount of numbers for a valid passcode

Using a Regex search indicates that minotaur is the only possible keyword

Make a 6×3 grid

Reorder columns as 3, 6, 5, 2, 1, 4

Read from the lower left 8

8yjx3minotaurg6f4q

All letters without real specific range. In the end you’ll need 0 & 1

Convert letters to numbers

23 4 22 13 21 4 12 11 1 13 2 11 3 21 4 1 21 23 22 13 22 23 3 4 4 1 13 21 13 23 2

The sum of all the numbers is 104. Use RLE to get a binary string

00111000011001000110111101101010001101000110111101101100011001000110011000111000011110100011010001100011

Make groups of 8

00111000 01100100 01101111 01101010 00110100 01101111 01101100 01100100 01100110 00111000 01111010 00110100 01100011

Convert binary to Ascii

8doj4oldf8z4c

16 characters with the right amount of numbers for a valid passcode. This time with a real twist

Make a 4×4 grid

Read in a spiral from the middle 2

2jkw9enigmah2y8a