Let me tell you a little about the inspiration for this site. For awhile I lived in Stevens Point, WI and enjoyed playing in the World's largest trivia contest. It was and still is played on the college radio station as a 54 hour marathon of trivia, music, and madness. Teams would call in answers and earn points. They would also engage in scavenger hunt activities presumably to get out and get some fresh air.
Team members became life-long friends and many made trivia their obsession. Some super-teams would take turns all year-long going to every film played locally, scanning books (before Google), and allegedly even followed The Oz (as he is called, I won't divulge his identity) on summer vacations to see what he enjoyed.
I tell this story to provide a background into the spirit of what trivia is about to me.
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Am I doing it right http://tinyurl.com/geobtc ? Not sure it uses spaces, the description is vague it might be \n or something.
Some ppl tried to bruteforce it using http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip (1GB unzipped) didn't get anything.
If someone will manage to solve it, please report here for gods sake.
Good work so far, not too many wrong! Here's the thing: I know it's hard. This site (when it is developed) is intended to be world-class hard and not to be completed by an individual. I will go over your answers to see if there is something I can learn about the problem solving process. I do appreciate and applaud your efforts! This will help me make this a better site. Some ppl tried to bruteforce it using http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip (1GB unzipped) didn't get anything.
If someone will manage to solve it, please report here for gods sake.
Am I doing it right http://tinyurl.com/geobtc ? Not sure it uses spaces, the description is vague it might be \n or something.
Some ppl tried to bruteforce it using http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip (1GB unzipped) didn't get anything.
If someone will manage to solve it, please report here for gods sake.
Some ppl tried to bruteforce it using http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip (1GB unzipped) didn't get anything.
If someone will manage to solve it, please report here for gods sake.
I am interested in helping build the site. I can't commit a lot of time to it, but if you've got some smaller ideas you'd like to implement soon I'd love to be involved! My main environments right now are PHP and Javascript, but I could pick up something else.
That's great. I'm not really familiar with PHP and Javascript, but they should do fine. The games are pretty simple. The crossword puzzles I want to be able to run locally offline (for security reasons) and enter the words into the boxes or onto a line that automatically inputs them into the boxes. Right now I'm using a puzzle generator that is not useful for this but there are free Javascript puzzle generators available online that would be worth using as a template to build an interactive one. There will then need to be a solution button that concatenates the words into a string to be copy/pasted into a brainwallet app to see if it matches the given solution. The Digs can be just entered as strings with each question and then again concatenated into a string for a brainwallet app. It would also be nice if the work in progress can be saved offline on a local drive for the individual to come back to.
I also want a forum for teams to privately or openly discuss questions.
These are just basic functions needed for now. I have a lot more plans.
I am willing to pay some for this, but I need to find another funding source eventually. Msg me privately if you (or anyone) are interested.
I am interested in helping build the site. I can't commit a lot of time to it, but if you've got some smaller ideas you'd like to implement soon I'd love to be involved! My main environments right now are PHP and Javascript, but I could pick up something else.
Kudos on the site. It has the potential to introduce a lot of new people to bitcoins.
I have a couple of suggestions.
No matter how creative you are, you will eventually run out of puzzles. I suggest you set it up so that users can submit their own puzzles (become puzzle masters). Encourage users to donate to the prize money and to tip the puzzle masters. Maybe have a minimum prize before you are willing to post a puzzle submission, and when the prize is taken, you would take the puzzle down, or move it to the completed puzzles section. Incorporate a leader board for the puzzle masters, so that people that submit really hard puzzles get recognition.
Another handy tool would be to incorporate the bitaddress.org and blockexplorer functionality into the site, so people don't have to leave the page to check their answers or see the prize total.
Nice job and best of luck!
Thank you on the kind words. I have a pretty good vision of what I want the site to look like, how it will function, and how to make it grow and scale. I have been thinking of starting a GLBSE to raise funds to hire programmers. In the meantime, I can make more puzzles and find more ideas.I have a couple of suggestions.
No matter how creative you are, you will eventually run out of puzzles. I suggest you set it up so that users can submit their own puzzles (become puzzle masters). Encourage users to donate to the prize money and to tip the puzzle masters. Maybe have a minimum prize before you are willing to post a puzzle submission, and when the prize is taken, you would take the puzzle down, or move it to the completed puzzles section. Incorporate a leader board for the puzzle masters, so that people that submit really hard puzzles get recognition.
Another handy tool would be to incorporate the bitaddress.org and blockexplorer functionality into the site, so people don't have to leave the page to check their answers or see the prize total.
Nice job and best of luck!
I don't think it is going to require a lot of coding at first, so I will probably just hire someone out of pocket for the initial development so it will spark interest from investors. I would even entertain a partnership in GLBSE stock.
For those folks playing, I encourage teamwork and using technology. This is not the kind of contest that can be won by just googling stuff. Expert knowledge is sometimes needed, but cleverness is almost always required. There are a lot of trick questions. Read them carefully and interpret them in ways not always included in some dictionary or thesaurus, but by other usages as well. I'll need to put that hint on the site.
Kudos on the site. It has the potential to introduce a lot of new people to bitcoins.
I have a couple of suggestions.
No matter how creative you are, you will eventually run out of puzzles. I suggest you set it up so that users can submit their own puzzles (become puzzle masters). Encourage users to donate to the prize money and to tip the puzzle masters. Maybe have a minimum prize before you are willing to post a puzzle submission, and when the prize is taken, you would take the puzzle down, or move it to the completed puzzles section. Incorporate a leader board for the puzzle masters, so that people that submit really hard puzzles get recognition.
Another handy tool would be to incorporate the bitaddress.org and blockexplorer functionality into the site, so people don't have to leave the page to check their answers or see the prize total.
Nice job and best of luck!
I have a couple of suggestions.
No matter how creative you are, you will eventually run out of puzzles. I suggest you set it up so that users can submit their own puzzles (become puzzle masters). Encourage users to donate to the prize money and to tip the puzzle masters. Maybe have a minimum prize before you are willing to post a puzzle submission, and when the prize is taken, you would take the puzzle down, or move it to the completed puzzles section. Incorporate a leader board for the puzzle masters, so that people that submit really hard puzzles get recognition.
Another handy tool would be to incorporate the bitaddress.org and blockexplorer functionality into the site, so people don't have to leave the page to check their answers or see the prize total.
Nice job and best of luck!
On the Bible dig: I've got a collection of possible answers and some pretty solid references to back them up, but can't seem to find the key. If anyone else who is close would like to pool answers and see if we can solve it together, that might be interesting (assuming cbeast is OK with it.)
Although I'll trust anyone, I'm curious if there's some cool crypto we can use to share answers without having the completely trust each other...
Although I'll trust anyone, I'm curious if there's some cool crypto we can use to share answers without having the completely trust each other...
EDIT: I just re-read the OP, so I guess the answers do need to make a private key. Beats me where to get started though.
For the Bible section, a little Googling and theological know-how has gotten me about 10 answers that I am fairly certain are correct, 3 more that are uncertain, and 2 that I have not yet figured out.
The answers may be a little tricky, but they make sense. They are spelled as they appear in KJV 1611
Just tried using a KJV 1611 word search and it's not showing me where you got the questions from. I only had a chance looking at other versions. You shouldn't have to hold a doctorate in theology or discuss this amongst your group at a monastery or convent...
The answers may be a little tricky, but they make sense. They are spelled as they appear in KJV 1611
Just tried using a KJV 1611 word search and it's not showing me where you got the questions from. I only had a chance looking at other versions. You shouldn't have to hold a doctorate in theology or discuss this amongst your group at a monastery or convent...
Subbing, like the idea of answering trivia and puzzles for bitcoin...
The answers may be a little tricky, but they make sense. They are spelled as they appear in KJV 1611. Buried keys is intended to be a team game if/when the project gets finished and sponsors are found. It was inspired by http://90fmtrivia.org/.
It is impossible because it is subject to interpretation (or arcane knowledge and wording that only you can know the answer to). I just tried to add my generated key for the Bible 1a ones, after being properly encoded to base58 starting with a '5', without success. You'd be better off providing an ISBN of a NY Times best seller, and listing page, line, and word to search for, which would only require basic counting, not mind-reading.
I have added a crossword puzzle in the Crossword Gold section. I hope it is not too easy. Good luck!
Good luck! I hope I did not make these too easy. I'll be working on some more this weekend. I have a fb page at https://www.facebook.com/BuriedKeys if anyone like this.
I'm trying to figure out how to fund this with ads. When I get enough content, I may go with content based links, but if it ever gets popular I would eventually prefer sponsorship for the Digs.
I'm trying to figure out how to fund this with ads. When I get enough content, I may go with content based links, but if it ever gets popular I would eventually prefer sponsorship for the Digs.
Borrowed a friend's bible 
Task 1 begin!
Task 1 begin!
Buried Keys is now live! It is a rudimentary version, but ideas are welcome.
https://www.buriedkeys.com sits and times out
http://www.buriedkeys.com sucessfully redirects to https://sites.google.com/site/buriedkeys/
might want to look into that or fix your post link.
I might also suggest a brain-dead bulletpoint guide as to what to do. All I can figure from my brief overview of the site (which is what most people will probably do) was that there are a list of questions that I need to answer, but I can't really tell what to do with the answers... the 'How to Play' section needs to be explained more clearly and not as a big blob of text. Especially, it doesn't seem to explain what to do with your answers to each part of the dig.
But aside from that, cool idea. If you could facilitate 'user generated digs' that would be awesome.
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ok it's explained by the link on 'buried treasure'. I might suggest making that a bit more explicit and also including it as part of the 'how to play' section.
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Buried Keys is now live! It is a rudimentary version, but ideas are welcome.
https://www.buriedkeys.com sits and times out
http://www.buriedkeys.com sucessfully redirects to https://sites.google.com/site/buriedkeys/
might want to look into that or fix your post link.
I might also suggest a brain-dead bulletpoint guide as to what to do. All I can figure from my brief overview of the site (which is what most people will probably do) was that there are a list of questions that I need to answer, but I can't really tell what to do with the answers... the 'How to Play' section needs to be explained more clearly and not as a big blob of text. Especially, it doesn't seem to explain what to do with your answers to each part of the dig.
But aside from that, cool idea. If you could facilitate 'user generated digs' that would be awesome.
edit:
ok it's explained by the link on 'buried treasure'. I might suggest making that a bit more explicit and also including it as part of the 'how to play' section.
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