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Final Puzzle Xmas 2016 - Mr. E

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  1. So I decided to close this puzzle semi early as I am going to not be available much longer and will be even more infrequently posting in the thread. First off I'd like to congratulate all the new winners this year and I'm glad I saw some new names solving the puzzles! I can't wait for next year to do it all again! Now let's get started
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  3. Org Hint:
  4. Alright folks here it is my final puzzle!
  5. Everything you need to answer the riddle is in this post (well in a way). This puzzle is so easy to do all you have to do is answer my question. But before you do that you may wish to read this
  6. http://pastebin.com/6UN1ayC8 - My original puzzle write up from last year.
  7. http://pastebin.com/sWuWJ2Ms - Puzzle 2
  8. http://pastebin.com/RJdLW7sQ - Puzzle 3
  9. http://pastebin.com/vbPk9D9W - Puzzle I did as a warm up a few weeks back
  10. http://pastebin.com/HLV8GN4L - Puzzle 1 Xmas 2016
  11. http://pastebin.com/Fnj9ZGa7 - Puzzle 2 Xmas 2016w
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  13. 12-40 111-7 1503-1 5-100 20-25.
  14. 32-18 43-16 4-106 21-24 137-6 425-2
  15. 664-1 4-106 21-24 1633-1 1575-1's 494-2
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  17. Answer in the following format "Oh Mighty Riddler the answer is <answer>"
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  19. Before we get started yes that 's is in there on purpose. This one will take all of your cunning, or is it counting? Oh well who can tell. Get cracking!
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  21. Ans:
  22. Well quite clearly this is a substitution cipher, but where's the key, and even more important, what the heck are these indexes? Well it's quite clear that my former puzzle write ups will be the key, but in what capacity? You'll notice the final line of the clue "This one will take all of your cunning, or is it counting?" What could we count? Why words my dear Batboobs, words! So save all of my write ups to a local folder on your computer and make se of the following commmand (though there are other tools that could do this as well) "$ cat allhints.txt | tr '[:space:]' '[\n*]' | grep -v "^\s*$" | sort | uniq -c | sort -bnr > key.txt". This command will create a list of every "word" in these text files (denoted by spaces) and then count the occurences of those words and output them from highest to lowest which gives you this key file (http://pastebin.com/YzEvJGdC). Now let's figure out what the hell those indexes mean. Well given that the left side numbers go up to 1500's and I'm pretty sure I've not written that many occurences, perhaps its another number, maybe a line number? And if that's a line number then the right must be the occurences. So refer to the key and you get
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  24. It has come to this.
  25. Well here is the final Riddle.
  26. What is the bad boy's favorite song?
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  28. And now I present the surprise twist to my puzzle! There are a few songs that fit in here, so I would have accepted multiple answers! Though if you must know my personal favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FJU4GrXztE. That's all Batboobs! I told you it was simple! Well I'll see you next year.
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