Solution to M: Act 3 Meta

    The answers need to be reordered and changed in order to be used. This is done by "taking a step back": setting every letter back by 1.

    1. ZEROINDEX - YDQNHMCDW
    2. FOREKNOWLEDGE - ENQDJMNVKDCFD
    3. BANJO - AZMIN
    4. VOMITORIUM - UNLHSNQHTL
    5. PASSKEY - OZRRJDX
    6. JIVEZ - IHUDY

    Now, each answer begins with a vowel. Each sentence in the text also begins with a vowel. The answers (with the letters one step back) should be ordered according to the vowels of the sentences.

    There are 49 total letters in all the answers combined. In this order, the letters indicated by the numbers of the puzzle spell out quicksort.

    Upon submitting the correct answer, teams were redirected to this page.

    In hindsight, the choice should have been very clear that the letters should have been zero-indexed. However, one could interpret this as "taking a step back" as well, so I guess that works out.

QUICKSORT