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This is the Solution to Chat and a Puzzle.

The very first room to start with was STAR, as hinted by this post.
Clue 1: GSV URIHG KZHHDLIW RH YOZMPVGBYOZMP
Room 1: Star
Password 1: “blanketyblank”
Solution 1: Replace the letters with a reversed alphabet to get “THE PASSWORD IS BLANKETYBLANK”. It won’t work in UPPERCASE but it works fine in lowercase.

[b]Clue 2: teeodasodsndihscnpswriaamn
Room 2: Green
Password 2: Ferret
Solution 2: “pswr” would stand out to the sharp-eyed. Simply by splitting the line in half and reading from top to bottom, the message spells out “the second password is an admin.” There nine possibilities.

Clue 3: 1452420 15145 919 141520 935
Room 3: Balloon
Password 3: fire
Solution 3: Each bunch of numbers stands for a word and the numbers in them stand for the position of the letter. 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, etc. This will give “next one is not ice”. There are a few possibilities.

Clue 4: 110 19 110 33 19 14 36 24 18 22 26 18 22 21 36 19 15 26 13 14
Room 4: Farina
Password 4: popcornfish
Solution 4: This one was tricky. The sharp-eyed noticed the first digit never went past 3 and there are no single-digit numbers. Splitting this gives “1-10 1-9 1-10 3-3 1-9 1-4 3-6 2-4 1-8 2-2 2-6 1-8 2-2 2-1 3-6 1-9 1-5 2-6 1-3 1-4″. What’s got three rows and translates to letters? A keyboard! But it won’t give the entire message unless you decode with a QWERTY layout.

This gives “popcornfishisanother”. Another what? Another password.

Clue 5: 1 0000 0 0100 01 000 1 0110 01 000 000 011 111 010 100 00 000 1 0000 0 0100 01 000 1 1 011 111 011 111 010 100 000 01 000 111 10 0
Room 5: Generation
Password 5: asone
Solution 5: It looks like binary, but it’s actually Morse code. 1 = “-” and 0 = “.” This gives: “thelastpasswordisthelasttwowordsasone”.

And to claim your prize: Email Gantic with the order of the locked rooms you entered, including this one.

And now for the big moment:

The Interlocked burr puzzle goes to...

*drumroll*

Winner = 10