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title: Vending Machine

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# Vending Machine
The 25 items should be rotn'ed (0-24) and found in the word search. The squares left over spell "TRYTOLOOKATTHEONESANDZEROSTOFINDYOURANSWERIFTHATSTOOHARDBENDYOURMINDANDTRYMOORE"

The next step is to construct a [Moore curve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_curve) over the entire grid, then reading the black squares as 0 and white squares as 1 along the curve. 

::: spoiler Answer
Decoding from binary to ascii gives "The answer is **FROZENPROXIMITY** ."
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