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Tuesday Puzzler

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Tuesday Puzzler

Mike Donaldson

A man worked at a high security institution. The man tried to log into his computer and the computer denied the password. He then remembered that the passwords to the computers were reset every month for security reasons. He called his boss for his new password.

The man said, "Boss, my old password is out of date."

The boss said, "Yes, it is. The new password is different, but if you listen closely you will be able to figure out the new one. Your new password has the same amount of letters as the old one, and four of the letters are the same."

The man then logged into his computer with no trouble. What was the new password? What was his old?

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Alex Y

Looking for anything unusual in the statement of the problem that might lead to a solution here...

Is it significant that the boss said it has the same AMOUNT of letters rather than the same NUMBER of letters?

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Larry Barrett

Are the letters s, a, m, e part of the answer?

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Hint

Mike Donaldson

S a m e are not quite heading down the right path. The old password and new password share 4 letters, and both passwords are contained in the text of the riddle.

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Clever!  Playing with voice recognition

Gary Smyth

softwear helped. A little punctuation would have helped, as would perhaps the tone. It's right out there, but I did use paper and pad to count and verify.

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Mike Donaldson

Gary,

So, what is the old password?

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#7

Out of date


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#8

Answer

Mike Donaldson

That is correct. And the new password is of course 'different'.

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#9

Nice!

Alex Y

So obvious once you point it out! ;)

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