Topic: [ANN] iQCash CONTEST | Solve the puzzle to win BTC! SOLVED!!! Winner: lhvleao (Read 3973 times)

New contest coming in March!

Watch out here, or follow on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/iQCashCoin) or twitter (https://twitter.com/iQCash) for announcement.

Now there's a full list of how many coins each account has mined. I'm in top 25 

For now, the puzzles are too easy. Waiting for more fun when next levels arrive bringing a high level of complexity

Me too. It takes not even 1 min to recieve your tokens in the wallet. Keep this great work!

I started mining some by solving puzzles and immediately received my iQCash on my Waves address.
Congrats @iQCash and good mining to all!

one more day so excited for this

Now only 6 days. Can't wait more for it 

That's awesome. Thanks.

People place a lot of value on Bitcoin after years of expending large amounts of electricity mining it.

Let's hope they also will value all the brain power that will be expended mining iQCash some time from now.

I cant wait for mining to start, only 9 more days!

My first trade on Waves Dex, bought some iQCash to support your project.
Good luck!

Thanks Neal.

So finally I can take a look at it. Yes the first possible prime was 17. Didn't think of converting it back to a letter. 

Very well done and thanks for the ride. Glad I can get some sleep again :-D

Great work lhvleao solving the last bit. I had a tunnelvision with the primes.
And thanks IQCASH for the great puzzle. Keep 'em coming!

-Neal

You gave me a scare with that one!

I was so close at the beginning, just didnt think to double it... Congrats!

Some great work was done by the people at HighiQForums. They have a Forum Games section:
https://www.highiqforum.com/forums/forum-games.55/

I also posted to two other puzzle forums. Some of their users may have come here to post:

https://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewforum.php?id=3
http://www.logic-puzzles.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5

So, in summary, to fill in any missing pieces:
Step 1: Convert the Chinese symbols to closest sounding letters + convert the Greek characters directly.

Step 2: Convert each character to its position in the alphabet.
(The spelling of 'crypto' was a red herring. The Greek character Kappa needed to remain K for the sums to work, but it would have been tempting to use 'c' and therefore 3 in the sums rather than 11.)

Step 2b: Sum the three intersecting rows and columns to get 68, 45 + ?, 90.

Step 3: Identify the mathematical sequence 68, 79, 90. Steps of 11. (Prime number) OR As lhvleao spotted, 45 = 90/2 hints that ? = 68/2. Either way, ? = 34 mathematically.

Step 4: As lhvleao realised, the numbers used in the sums must be converted FROM some algebraic form. Of the many possibilities, the only one that involved an operation with a 2 (a prime and the only number used in the original puzzle) and another prime number (in fact, the first clearly visible prime on the other side of the coin) was 2Q.

It was a celebration of the common iQ Puzzle tricks: symbols representing numbers, sequences, primes, algebra + arithmetic.

Thanks and congrats.

We'll do this again in the future, but the focus for the next few months will be the launch of the iQCash puzzles Round 1.
The first round will present 8 million super easy puzzles.
You won't find an easier time to earn iQCash but they may be a bit boring for many, so for a short time, there's still a small percentage of iQCash up for sale on Waves DEX. Find the Waves/iQCash trading pair. You will need to use the iQCash asset id to find it: 2fiCMUZgBZHs7DtwjyTET8gyToNNX1X5r8zUaouqoztQ

iQCash is a long term project. It will take time to solve all the simple puzzles. But once the puzzles start getting harder, the limited supply and increasing difficulty will hopefully create an environment for Bitcoin-like price rises.

Everything OK. Just recieved 0.04 btc 

Ty sir, and hope to see more great news from your project incoming (:

do you know where I could find other contests like this, and congratulations to all that helped to solve the puzzle.

Good summary of the final stages on the HighiQForum:

https://www.highiqforum.com/threads/contest-solve-the-puzzle-to-win-bitcoin.3311/page-3

0.04 BTC is on it's way to you. Let me know if any issues.