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Day 1: Part of your challenge used a playing card cipher. What number card would be represented by the letter 'S'? Place this number in the first space in the above grid. D
Day 2: Part of your challenge was to figure out what year someone was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Take the sum of the 1st and last digts of this 4-digit year and divide them into the second digit in the 4-digit year. Place this new number in the 2nd space.
Day 3: We asked you to name brands - one of those brands captured New Jersey's first-ever Stanley Cup. In what year? Put the last two digts of the 4-digit year in the third space.
Day 4: Part of your challenge was to figure out songs. In what year did Samuel Francis Smith write the lyrics to song #2? Add up all the numbers in the 4-digit year. Place this new, two-digit number in space number 4.
Space number 5 has been done for you.
Now, write down your five numbers in order without any spaces. You should have a 7-digit number. Take each of these digits and plug them into the below image in order.
Using the card cipher from day 1, what word do these cards spell?
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Where X = the word that the cards spell.