h3m4w4w5a1w9c5i2a1w9c5c5w4?
The string appearing before the mark of interrogation inclusive of the problem text is constituted by letters and numbers appearing alternately.
Each of the letters correspond to the first letter of a word and each of the numbers corresponds to the word length. This rule is also applicable to the problem title itself.
Now considering the problem title, we have:
a(2)o(3)t(6)t(7), brackets placed for facile understanding.
This solves as: "An Old Tongue Twister"
Knowing this, it is now not very difficult to decode the problem text as:
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
Edited on February 27, 2022, 11:26 pm
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