Alice was carrying a large clothes basket from the bedroom down the stairs to the laundry room. She struggled under the weight of the basket. She wished her younger brothers would help her
Instead, they were playing She had heard them throwing a baseball in the house earlier. She had told
them to go outside. They had gone to the backyard, but they had left the baseball on the stairs.

As montgomery and de grey slowly made their way through the message, they noticed more and more oddities. for example, 97556 appeared near the end of the message; the 90000 family indicated important names that were not used very often in messages. we can imagine their shock when they realized that 97556 stood for zimmermann. that single name fired the men with excitement as they began working on the message from the beginning. —the dark game, paul janeczko why were the code breakers excited when they realized that 97556 stood for zimmermann? they were proud that they had intercepted a message. they were excited that the message was full of oddities. they had never before decoded a name. they realized they had intercepted a message from the german foreign secretary.