Each nibble (four bits) in those five bytes is a row or column of the board, top to bottom then left to right, encoded as:
0: 0 1: 1 2: 1 1 3: 1 1 1 4: 1 2 5: 1 3 6: 2 7: 2 1 8: 2 2 9: 3 a: 3 1 b: 4 c: 5
$ grep -n $(echo c222c c222c | xxd -ps -r | base64) clues.txt 452085:wiLMIiw=
I have uploaded and archived a copy of that combined clues.txt file at https://web.archive.org/web/20250604215009id_/https://litter..., to help anyone else who would like to explore this without having to download those tens of thousands of files.