Code #1

Observations

This passcode was still live at the moment of writing the post

Hint: Passcode format is there. You’ve seen this before but are probably wondering why it is invalid. Remember, it’s just a game of opposites

Lots of repeating letters, they do have a special range

Convert letters to numbers using a=0

13 21 22 14 12 11 12 22 11 11 22 21 23 11 11 13 22 12 21 11 22 1 14 3 21 23 4 23 21 3 4

If you add up all the digits you get 104 which can be divided by 8. Good candidate for binary RLE

01110010 01101111 01101011 00110101 00110010 01110101 01110011 01100101 00110100 00111001 00111000 01100011 01110000

Convert binary to Ascii

rok52use498cp

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

Using a Regex search with ^[tsso98patera84re2c]{8}$ shows that separate is the only possibile keyword

Make a 6×3 grid

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

ots98separate842cr