ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 117.

S4VV4S

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Quote from: Remember remember the 5th of November on June 24, 2014, 04:19:34 PM

While 2BTC are a good incentive, I am not like you guys, thinking outside of the box(and I can see some people went outside what is outside the box). I could never solve this even if I spent my whole life on it.

But if I had to give an opinion. I guess looking at the pic reminds me of a QR code.

Can someone with a working QR reader scan this: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7491776

Thanks OP

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Quote from: Remember remember the 5th of November on June 24, 2014, 04:19:34 PM

While 2BTC are a good incentive, I am not like you guys, thinking outside of the box(and I can see some people went outside what is outside the box). I could never solve this even if I spent my whole life on it.

Bro, we work as a team (part of the rules), so if you wanna join in, we already gave you most of the tools Wink

BTW, out of ~~topic~~ subject on our discussion (me and you): KwjWncep6f1o6PvoFQTGzjEHgBqtoqQWZrjSEcmvuYVcfjfnZ2iY doesn't work either Undecided

Remember remember the 5th of November

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While 2BTC are a good incentive, I am not like you guys, thinking outside of the box(and I can see some people went outside what is outside the box). I could never solve this even if I spent my whole life on it.

But if I had to give an opinion. I guess looking at the pic reminds me of a QR code.

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Red: Red is the symbol of adulthood (literally it can be taken to refer to menstrual blood, and thus fertility and vigor). The Queen and Alice are on opposite sides of this color, Alice just growing into her adulthood, the Queen just growing past it. It is over this place, this wise middle ground, that the novel fights. Red is, hopefully, a place (or an age) of balance between rules and mercy, between young and old, between wisdom and nonsense.

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Quote from: rock_collector on June 24, 2014, 03:58:30 PM

If it helps, I was the one who added .09 btc to the bitcoin address, so disregard that donation--which I assume you have done, obviously not a clue. The other 1-0 deposits are certainly curious, though.

Also, before coin_artist silenced her twitter account last night, she made a few references to Alice in Wonderland. Wonder if there is a simple alphabet cipher involved a la Lewis Carroll. I'm not a cryptographer, so forgive the naivete. Perhaps all ARG puzzle constructors use Alice in Wonderland metaphors.

One more thing: in one of her tweets, she used the phrase "...what meets the eye." I can't remember--and it's driving me crazy--if she said "it's not what meets the eye," but I really don't think so because I was struck by her phrasing enough to write it down. What is it about the eye and what would be meeting it?

Good luck--you all are so smart!

Yeah it seems that "we need to go down the rabbit hole" Wink

EDIT: Nice of you to join and help us out.... much appreciated Wink

EDIT 2: got her twitter account link?

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I have combined all the 01.... transactions and came up with this key: 5Hw3Dbp5nEbcpSawS1nNkSRm7AFhjnQTBcjh9ybCJo72jrTReos

Nope not it Embarrassed

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In that triangle down the bottom I keep looking at that small piece in the top left corner. I wonder if it means something.

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If it helps, I was the one who added .09 btc to the bitcoin address, so disregard that donation--which I assume you have done, obviously not a clue. The other 1-0 deposits are certainly curious, though.

Also, before coin_artist silenced her twitter account last night, she made a few references to Alice in Wonderland. Wonder if there is a simple alphabet cipher involved a la Lewis Carroll. I'm not a cryptographer, so forgive the naivete. Perhaps all ARG puzzle constructors use Alice in Wonderland metaphors.

One more thing: in one of her tweets, she used the phrase "...what meets the eye." I can't remember--and it's driving me crazy--if she said "it's not what meets the eye," but I really don't think so because I was struck by her phrasing enough to write it down. What is it about the eye and what would be meeting it?

Good luck--you all are so smart!

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Quote from: 1000000 on June 24, 2014, 03:47:54 PM

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 24, 2014, 02:18:08 PM

Wow, I found the private key to an address that starts: 1LsD

Yeah, no chance I will be using that.....,...

EDIT: Next milestone: 1COKE, 1POT, 1CRACK, 1JUNKIE...... etc etc Grin

EDIT 2: I shit you not, private key: 5HrVJgUTjbdEymrfnshvCSyspw1mQLjNqyvPiuyRhMefHDvdeDR

Have you ever heard of vanitygen? Cheesy

You know I was just kidding right?

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More Binary: https://blockchain.info/address/1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra

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Quote from: S4VV4S on June 24, 2014, 02:18:08 PM

Wow, I found the private key to an address that starts: 1LsD

Yeah, no chance I will be using that.....,...

EDIT: Next milestone: 1COKE, 1POT, 1CRACK, 1JUNKIE...... etc etc Grin

EDIT 2: I shit you not, private key: 5HrVJgUTjbdEymrfnshvCSyspw1mQLjNqyvPiuyRhMefHDvdeDR

Have you ever heard of vanitygen? Cheesy

e1ghtSpace

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Prize is now 1.9!!!

zonkism

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another thing.. The Yellow dots on row 14 makes me think we should not be approaching these dots from left to right but instead either top/bottom or bottom to top.

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Quote from: zonkism on June 24, 2014, 03:06:04 PM

I have imported the image into gimp and have noticed there are two 3x3 reversed but identical grids the first starting on row 7 after the "O" and the second starting on row 9 after the L. Depending on whether the red/green dots are 1,2 and zeros... XORing these would give a 3x3 grid of 1. Could be a coincidence but may be useful. I am not sure how useful because the number of rows % 3 is not 0.

Welcome aboard mate

Will check your findings and see if I can come up with something.
I am sure most of the other participants will do the same.

Thanks for being part of the team

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I have imported the image into gimp and have noticed there are two 3x3 reversed but identical grids the first starting on row 7 after the "O" and the second starting on row 9 after the L. Depending on whether the red/green dots are 1,2 and zeros... XORing these would give a 3x3 grid of 1. Could be a coincidence but may be useful. I am not sure how useful because the number of rows % 3 is not 0.

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Wow, I found the private key to an address that starts: 1LsD

Yeah, no chance I will be using that.....,...

EDIT: Next milestone: 1COKE, 1POT, 1CRACK, 1JUNKIE...... etc etc Grin

EDIT 2: I shit you not, private key: 5HrVJgUTjbdEymrfnshvCSyspw1mQLjNqyvPiuyRhMefHDvdeDR

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Also, can the OP tell us which transactions should we consider part of the game? Huh

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0101 0 1111 110 1011 0 10101 0

translates to (poetry) this:

dot consider presence rip understand above

could be relevant or not....

scribe

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A couple of random thoughts:

There are 26 parts divided by orange dots before the blue dot (1 part is empty though). I thought this might relate to letters of the alphabet, but some parts are the same, so doubtful it's a direct key.

If red and green do represent bits, and each part isn't a set length, it's not clear why you'd start (or end, depending on direction) with a 0 bit in some cases only. Suspect they represent something else, like direction?

I'm assuming the dots run right-to-left, not top-to-bottom...

Could the red/yellow/blue colours relate to the colours in the Darkwallet logo's triangle? [Edit: The red/yellow/green/blue prism spectrum also turns up in the logo for the related Darkmarket project, e.g. http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-22-at-4.45.06-PM.png]

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Quote from: S4VV4S on June 24, 2014, 08:39:13 AM

A) A private key can be 52 characters long as well (half the keys I found are 52 char long and all start with K) also there are mini-keys : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key
B) I am not sure about the image not having steganography. I have followed Cicada games who's images were uploaded on imgur (by whoever) and had hidden content in them.
C) You are spot on, the ones and zeros are a clue to deciphering.

Thanks!

Long shot, but here's the greens and reds seperated, to see if there's any visual patterns.

http://i.imgur.com/Vdn3fjj.png
http://i.imgur.com/6OVWl0I.png

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