It is March and the lovely #EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "color".
Oh no! Donald Trump Jr was so scared of refugees that he… uh, hang on.
I was researching a different puzzle idea in the Epstein files when I got distracted. I saw the way Epstein took notes in one notebook. It was in code: For example, "Detildkoyuataendg" ain't English. But it wasn't too tough to crack this code when you noticed how he laid out his writing. Like this seeming nonsense scribbled in next to a magazine(?) clipping:
![excerpt from notebook. There's a magazine(?) clipping and some hand-printed text. The clipping: 'title: Ivana Trump. Entrepeneur [I guess this is Don Trump Sr talking]: She once asked me how I handled the press during my divorce. She said 'You came out of your divorce with diginity and pride, and that's how I would like to come out of mine.'' The hand-printed text is laid out in pairs of rows. To read it, you don't read across, but in a sawtooth pattern, a simple transposition cipher. E.g., the first row starts out 'De' and the second row starts out 'es'. By reading sawtooth, you get 'Does'. Full text: Does this lady know you cant have any digity if youve been with him? I know I have none. Only skittles'](https://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/importable/2026/EFTA02731433-dignity.jpg)
Here's a puzzle: After being with Trump Sr., what did Epstein have instead of dignity? (Answer is in the image's Alt text.)
(More similarly-coded text is in that notebook. Fair warning: It gets pretty grim.)
