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+# Riddles Lab Assessment
+
+Cory, nice work! We talked through the questions you left in comments. 
+Regarding a few questions in notes:
+
+> I think this is the number of characters in the response.
+
+Yes--the receiver wants to know that the whole message came through. 
+
+> I'm not sure what the nginx/1.22.0 means
+
+Indeed, nginx is one of the two most common web servers. 
+
+And from your commit message: 
+
+>    I've seen 404 messages when trying to go to URLs that don't exist, but
+>    I'd not really thought about what it meant or if I could get other numbers
+>    to show up! I just accepted its existence and didn't question if there was
+>    a reason for that particular number.
+
+I think this kind of connection between formal CS learning in the classroom and 
+everyday tech-mediated experiences is incredibly important!
+