Introduction
There is a way to get a free donut at a coffee shop near the Stack Exchange offices.
However, you are required to solve a phrase and convert it into a single number.
Codes
You watch as a cashier says:
Do not use the toilets here. We're washing them.
And then the person replies:
$38$.
They get a free donut.
Next, another person walks in and you listen again. The cashier says:
Donuts by the dozen are $3.
The person replies:
$20$.
Once again, the cashier gives the person a free donut.
You go back the following day and watch as more people get their own free donuts.
The cashier says:
Donuts are mentioned somehow as a secret here, and thus, this is a steganography-related question.
The person replies:
$20$.
Once again, they get a free donut.
The cashier says to another customer:
Your donuts aren't considered free yet.
The customer replies:
$50$.
This is also correct, and the cashier gives them free donuts.
You go up to the counter and the cashier says:
No donuts right now. We're making some more.
You come up with a random number:
Hmm... $44$?
She replies:
Sorry, but I do not know what you are talking about.
(You saw some donuts being handed to a paying person later, so you know she wasn't telling the truth when she said there were no donuts)
You are really hungry and want to get a free donut. What number should you say when you come back? You have promised her you will come back with the correct number (although she just shrugs)
Hints
- Hint 1:
Donut ignore the pun in this hint.
- Hint 2:
Do you nut see a tasty treat hidden in this?
- Hint 3:
Why do you nut take what the cashier said literally? "Donuts are mentioned somehow as a secret here, and thus, this is a steganography-related question."
- Hint 4:
$6+2+7+2+8+2+9+2+10+2 = 50$.
:)
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