It is March and the lovely #EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "file".
I contemplated some of the Epstein files and was impressed by the work of FBI redactors. As I looked at huge swaths of black, I couldn't tell which protected the identities of victims-as-in-victims vs victims-as-in-men-who-have-power-over-the-feds. Here's a puzzle:
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Hints, rot13'd:
- Pbhag oynpx fdhnerf. N eha bs whfg bar oynpx fdhner vf N. Gjb oynpx fdhnerf vf O. Guerr vf P, rgp. Rnpu yvfg vgrz vf bar jbeq.
- Gur svefg gjb jbeqf ner: qral, nggnpx.
- "Qral, nggnpx," ner gur svefg gjb jbeqf bs na npebalz gung nevfrf va nyy gbb znal nohfr ercbegf.
Solution, rot13'd:
Qral nggnpx erirefr ivpgvz naq bssraqre
