The good agent that you are, you know how to follow orders. Each day you need to

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The good agent that you are, you know how to follow orders. Each day you need to determine the passphrase. You have a trusty codebook with a word for each letter. Additionally, each day you're given a starting string and a sequence of instructions. Today you've been given the string "Q" and the following instructions. Can you follow them to determine today's passphrase?

A: Banana
B: Mike
C: Monkey
D: Courtney
E: Jerome
F: Scissors
G: Turkey
H: Apple
I: Duck
J: Tissue
K: Hat
L: Zombie
M: Chair

N: Bond
O: Keyboard
P: Koala
Q: Bee
R: Sword
S: Wall
T: Gold
U: Backpack
V: Tower
W: Shelf
X: Mary
Y: Foam
Z: Arbitrage

Replace each letter of the string with the associated word in the codebook

Remove any letter that is the same as the previous one

Shift the second letter backward 7

Repeat the step you performed three steps ago

Move the last letter to the front

Shift all letters forward 5

Going from left to right, remove any letters between the current letter and the next occurrence of that letter

Repeat the previous step

Shift the first half of the letters (rounded down) forward 1, and the last half of the letters (rounded down) backward 1

Turn the string into a palindrome by taking all but the last letter, reversing them and adding them to the end of the string.

Remove the first two letters

Explanation / Answer

today's string is "Q"
1. Bee
2. Be
3. Bx
4. MikeMary
5. yMikeMar
6. dRnpjRfw
7. dRRfw
8. dRRfw
9. eSRev
10. eSReRSe
11. ReRse

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