Scraping to get by (*spoiler alert*)

Well, I guess most of the guesswork has been taken out of Sample Puzzle 3. I'm not sure how Monica and Don found the extra pictures, not even a clue...

But find them they did and I trust they didn't leave any out. So that makes 8 images for the next part of the puzzle.

Let's see...

Hotel, Lima, Oscar, Alpha, Hotel, Uniform, Papa, Oscar.

Looks familiar, hmm...

Segue-way into a sort of puzzle, cryptographic, cipher sort of topic.

The NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO phonetic alphabet, more formally the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet. Though often called "phonetic alphabets", spelling alphabets have no connection to phonetic transcription systems like the International Phonetic Alphabet. Instead, the NATO alphabet assigns code words to the letters of the English alphabet acrophonically (Alpha for A, Bravo for B, etc.) so that critical combinations of letters (and numbers) can be pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of their native language, especially when the safety of navigation or persons is essential. The paramount reason is to ensure intelligibility of voice signals over radio links.

Follow the white rabbit and you get:
Hotel=H
Lima=L
Oscar=O
Alpha=A
Hotel=H
Uniform=U
Papa=P
Oscar=O

HLOAHUPO which by itself is meaningless and doesn't work as a password. However, if you use an anagram program such as Andy's Anagram Solver (google it), the only real solution is:

Hulahoop

Which is the password for Sample Puzzle 3.

-FB