Space Piracy

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I created the Space Piracy puzzle for the 2023 Brown Puzzle Hunt. The puzzle was designed for the final round of the hunt, so it is meant to take more than a few minutes to solve (and it could in fact take significantly longer).

As with all puzzles in a puzzle hunt, the “solution” to the puzzle is a word or phrase. A (slightly modified) copy of the puzzle is provided below:


To hack the space station, you’ll need more fingers than the average astronaut and familiarity with the crew’s favorite functions.





Hint

Hover over the text below to reveal a hint:

The title of the puzzle was inspired by the fact that in The Martian, Mark Watney uses hexadecimal to communicate with NASA.

Solution

You can view a step-by-step solution of the puzzle at this page from the 2023 Brown Puzzle Hunt.

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