Question Mark

June 2014 : Solution

This month’s puzzle, as about 20 of you figured out, is a question written in code. Each of the given numbers is a composite number with prime factors less than or equal to 101. For each factorization, mapping the nth prime number to the nth letter of the alphabet and anagramming will give you each word. So, the question asks “What is the number that yields two six seven six nine seven six nine when written in this code?” Iterating again, 26769769 yields “fifty” (or “50” was accepted). Congrats to all solvers, especially Quinn Beightol, the randomly-chosen winner of this month’s Jane Street t-shirt!