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97 <article class=
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4: Secure Container ---
</h2><p>You arrive at the Venus fuel depot only to discover it's protected by a password. The Elves had written the password on a sticky note, but someone
<span title=
"Look on the bright side - isn't it more secure if nobody knows the password?">threw it out
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98 <p>However, they do remember a few key facts about the password:
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100 <li>It is a six-digit number.
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101 <li>The value is within the range given in your puzzle input.
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102 <li>Two adjacent digits are the same (like
<code>22</code> in
<code>1<em>22</em>345</code>).
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103 <li>Going from left to right, the digits
<em>never decrease
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<code>111123</code> or
<code>135679</code>).
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105 <p>Other than the range rule, the following are true:
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107 <li><code>111111</code> meets these criteria (double
<code>11</code>, never decreases).
</li>
108 <li><code>2234<em>50</em></code> does not meet these criteria (decreasing pair of digits
<code>50</code>).
</li>
109 <li><code>123789</code> does not meet these criteria (no double).
</li>
111 <p><em>How many different passwords
</em> within the range given in your puzzle input meet these criteria?
</p>
113 <p>Your puzzle answer was
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<em>are not part of a larger group of matching digits
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114 <p>Given this additional criterion, but still ignoring the range rule, the following are now true:
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116 <li><code>112233</code> meets these criteria because the digits never decrease and all repeated digits are exactly two digits long.
</li>
117 <li><code>123<em>444</em></code> no longer meets the criteria (the repeated
<code>44</code> is part of a larger group of
<code>444</code>).
</li>
118 <li><code>111122</code> meets the criteria (even though
<code>1</code> is repeated more than twice, it still contains a double
<code>22</code>).
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120 <p><em>How many different passwords
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122 <p>Your puzzle answer was
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