Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 7. (Read 99417 times)

Thanks. If there's something I can do to help, feel free to ask.

shorena is making progress on it. I'm helping out a tiny bit.

Any chance we can get a final version of that awesome .PDF?

See you all at the next treasurehunt.

This was my summary of all the clues that we had at the time: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7707789

Then OP posted the image that Gatekeeper replicated here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7708233

Which led to the solution, which was to make the 'w' in the 51 byte string uppercase, then to apply the Wow signal strength as a cipher key (which several of us had already attempted and published the results of).

Look at Gatekeeper's posts, eg:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7708242

thanks, guess that part was relatively easy

Are you Tatiana? http://bitcoinmagazine.com/12191/transcript-interview-tatiana-moroz-regarding-sxsw-bitcoin

hell of a puzzle (I came in too late)

My attempt to identify where credit is due. This is a certainly flawed list of the people who were the first to post crucial points of progress on puzzles. There were also many other contributions to the effort from people who appear infrequently on this list, or in some cases, not at all, but these were the big steps that moved us forward:

(dark wallet)
> suggested morse code: S4VV4S
> determined proper direction for morse decoding: moinen
> correct set of long words: shorena
> correct search phrase: mirth23

(contra)
> found the enderman image: codenomnom / mtgox555
> posted enderman image: micaman
> created correct image overlay: moinen
> found bitly address: Gatekeeper

(mindthecraft)
> found IP address: Gatekeeper
> linked IP address to minecraft: mtgox555

(minecraft server)
> posted QR quadrant 1: newuser01
> QR quadrants 2-4: newuser01, shorena, moinen, and several others
> assembled QR: moinen

(Onion.7z)
> opened 7z: Yemmster
> posted hidden text: Yemmster
> noted swordfighting characters: S4VV4S
> found Tomb of Horrors hint: mtgox555
> found Tomb of Horrors image: mtgox555
> figured out to double-sha passwords: Timmmaahh

(Elements.jpg)
> posted about platonic solids: mtgox555
> figured out basic password approach: mtgox555
> first opened 7z: arg
> found ps thumbnail shortcut to Again.7z: arg
> figured out full password (after hint): mtgox555

(Algo.jpg)
> identified figure as a Tetractys: Gatekeeper
> determined password: micaman

(DoD)
> noted music files were recently modified: Yemmster
> found QR codes in audio: protokol, arg, Prospero
> decoded QR code: arg

(Space.mp4)
> found song information: tsoPANos
> found original video source: mirth23
> pulled binary out of Space.mp4: arg/Voyager
> converted binary to .7z: alphabetacanary
> posted password approach: mirth23, Prospero, arg
> found password first: arg
> posted password: xELx

(Crops.jpg)
> identified the particular crop circle: mirth23
> found the source image: Timmmaahh
> found correct morse code: mtgox555
> found Wow signal page: xELx
> found signal strength password: Prospero

(Wow.JPG)
> correct interpretation of character map: xELx (during the Crops puzzle)
> identification of Vigenère cipher approach: several people
> figured out OP hint to make w uppercaes: Gatekeeper

Thanks again to everyone for fun times. I learned a couple things, and dusted off parts of my brain that I haven't had a chance to use in a while.

Hey now, let's keep this civil. This is the internet after all.

This would be for a gaming rig. I know, talking gaming GPU's on a BTC forum. I've been eyeing up the 780's for my next build but if I had 1.75BTC, I would have topped up to a titan black. Or maybe just a TI. It's not like I spend enough time in front of a computer as is..


Are.. are you proposing to me? On here? HOW ROMANTIC! Yes! Yes, I will, xELx.

If I had won it would have gone towards my engagement ring fund for the SO.

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yes, was a great game, thank you for that!

any plan for the next one? 


btw. please tell me: what was the "xmp" data which we plottet out?
something to confuse us, some mistake and shouldnt be in that file or something else? (i realy like to know)

I totally agree with you, it was fun and awesome ride . And i learned a lot (Hiding files within a file which is hiddin in another file ...... WTF )

Thank you for this amazing, but fucking hard puzzle. It was a fun ride and I think every single one of us learned something because of it.

I want to take a moment to say thank you to all the players: to those who showed support - your words resonated deep and carried me through the game, to those who gave criticism when criticism was due - I listened closely and took note, and finally to everyone who contributed their time, creativity, and efforts - I am in awe of your talents and skills. I leave this experience humbled by a wonderful and dynamic community.

It is well enough designed considering they do not collect IPs or use cookies. It reminds me of web 1.01 sites from the 90's. I'm sure they could do better, but math guys aren't typically into aesthetics so long as the result and process are correct.

I've watched this with fascination. However, I do not think having money makes someone "bad". Solving a puzzle that is open to everyone is not "bad". I fail to see the logic. Once an individual reaches a certain level of wealth, should they quit trying to acquire wealth? It's not like the winner used child or slave labor to solve the puzzle - that would be bad. Your definition of "bad" is flawed.

what card you whant?
i have about 20 hd5970, hd5870, hd5850.. older cards now, but still very powerfull beasts!

we use it for our nokia sl3 servers, but if we get the system working with our fpga cards,
we shut down all servers.

i would also exchange cards against coding fpga to do the job.
because i cant get sha1 working with the ztex boards... what i need..

so nokia uses sha1 with salt (0000-9999)