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Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 76. (Read 99503 times)

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Alice first meets three cards (the 2, 5 and 7 of Spades) in the Queen's garden painting white roses red. One of them explains that they accidentally planted white roses, and because the queen hates white roses they have to paint them red or the Queen will behead them. After the Queen arrives, she finds white roses and orders the execution of all three of them. Alice hides these 3 in a flowerpot, after this their fte is unknown. When Alice joins a game of croquet with the Queen and the other playing cards, the card soldiers act as arches. They have to leave being arches every time the Queen has an executioner drag the victim away. They also appear in the trial where the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the Queen's tarts. In the book, the clubs are soldiers, the diamonds are courtiers, the spades are gardners, and the hearts are children.

Tried to post photo to no avail.

Hmmm, funny you say this.

7-5=2-1=1 exactly the name of the file.............
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Nope..
Alice first meets three cards (the 2, 5 and 7 of Spades) in the Queen's garden painting white roses red. One of them explains that they accidentally planted white roses, and because the queen hates white roses they have to paint them red or the Queen will behead them. After the Queen arrives, she finds white roses and orders the execution of all three of them. Alice hides these 3 in a flowerpot, after this their fte is unknown. When Alice joins a game of croquet with the Queen and the other playing cards, the card soldiers act as arches. They have to leave being arches every time the Queen has an executioner drag the victim away. They also appear in the trial where the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the Queen's tarts. In the book, the clubs are soldiers, the diamonds are courtiers, the spades are gardners, and the hearts are children.

Tried to post photo to no avail.
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mirth23's helpful summary #57

current data set:
- original image with undeciphered characters
- 7z file titled "Onion"
- image file titled Hint.jpg, dimensions 799x1039
- slightly hidden plaintext clues: "7:51" "Bit Sha"
- ghost images in the background of the image

probable next step:
- find the password to open 1.7z

solution thoughts:
- there are a number of bible verses that apply to 7:51 (John, Acts, 1 Kings, Numbers); none of them seem particularly useful
- googling "BitSha" didn't give us much useful. presumably "Sha" refers to the hash algorithm
- x=7 z=51 on the minecraft server didn't have much to see (server appears down now)
- 7:51 might mean the range between 7 and 51 of some other puzzle element
- we've got a few interesting primes with 7, 51, and the image height
- 51 is the length of a private bitcoin key
- what does "Onion" mean? a TOR address? many layers of an onion? something else?
- image analysis of this particular image appears to be best done with LAB and CYMK
- there are a LOT of unexplained artifacts remaining in the image. a darker wide vertical band in the middle, several places with possible text, figures, etc. perhaps the text is a hint to further decoding the image?
- I am pretty certain that the central image is not the Cheshire Cat, it looks more like burial mounds or standing stones
- all other puzzles have involved a video game - does the ghost image look familiar to anyone in that context?
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Probably irrelevant but there is a filehost called Bitshare.
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ok, and when i try to navigate to 7° 51° i am landing depp in the water near somalia....
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what is with coordinates in minecraft? Can you Reach 7:51? I'll try... EDIT: Ok, Server offline, it has nothing to do with mc Tongue

Someone did check it last night.
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what is with coordinates in minecraft? Can you Reach 7:51? I'll try... EDIT: Ok, Server offline, it has nothing to do with mc Tongue
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I'm currently looking at an obscure link, some guy wrote a book where the Cheshire Cat is a prisoner within Area 51:

http://christopheranton.hubpages.com/hub/Area-51-The-Final-Truth

don't know where the "7" comes into it though. As I said, obscure link  Cheesy

EDIT:

There also may be an airstrip in Area 51 know as the "Cheshire Airstrip" (it allegedly disappears).
There also exists a series of novels by Robert Doherty, the Area 51 series. The 7th book is called "The Truth" and has a stone circle on the front:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/360928.The_Truth

Still think this is too obscure though...

lol. I also looked into area 51 earlier hoping to see structures similar to the pic.
No luck btw...
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I'm currently looking at an obscure link, some guy wrote a book where the Cheshire Cat is a prisoner within Area 51:

http://christopheranton.hubpages.com/hub/Area-51-The-Final-Truth

don't know where the "7" comes into it though. As I said, obscure link  Cheesy

EDIT:

There also may be an airstrip in Area 51 know as the "Cheshire Airstrip" (it allegedly disappears).
There also exists a series of novels by Robert Doherty, the Area 51 series. The 7th book is called "The Truth" and has a stone circle on the front:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/360928.The_Truth

Still think this is too obscure though...
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maybe the number of "things/stones" what ever in the picture? 2 - 1 - 9 There is a Color (#0733db) with the RGB Decimal Code 7, 51, 219....

Meh.... im stuck

Funny:

Camper Van Beethoven – 51-7

I've been through all kind of changes
Cut my hair dyed it black in stages
Been in trouble with the law, but that's all over now
I'm ready for the big time: 51-7

Left home don't think my five brothers ever noticed
Mom half-baked on weed and scientology
My father if I ever find, well don't you never mind
I'm ready for the big time: 51-7

CHORUS:
You think you're strong enough
You think you're tough enough
You think you've got what it takes to be 51-7
You think you're smart enough
You think you know everything
But you don't know anything 'til you're 51-7
51-7 51-7 51-7 51-7

Nothing to believe in except God and country
Can't stand to see ourselves pushed around or fucked with (clean alternative = or disrespected)
Well give me a chance to show the world what I'm made of
Come on, come on, 51-7

CHORUS (x2):
You think you're tough enough
You think you've seen everything
But you ain't seen anything 'til you're 51-7
You think you're smart enough
You think you know it all
But you don't know anything 'til you're 51-7
51-7 51-7 51-7 51-7
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yeah i'm stuck, tried all sorts of dif things and nothing works, without any real direction it's like looking for a needle in an internet full of haystacks  Huh
newbie
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Try looking at a random jpg made in photoshop. There doesn't seem to be any extra data if you ask me
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ok someone give me a clue. I have been looking at this for hours.
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All strings (longer 3 chars) from "Hint.jpeg" extracted: http://pastebin.com/9gc9tzcF

Line 378: id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d

Is it possible to modify such header-informations?

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for the 2010 alice movie 7:51min is excat the same in german and in english. Both versions they said the sentence : "that pretty face won't last forever".

Where did the "Alice" hint comes from?

I Think 7:51 is the time/part/range where we can find the answere with the informations from the picture (the "Face"), bit and sha are the transcoding options to get the password.... hopefully
legendary
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Don't know if this has been posted, another Bible passage, John 7:51 -

http://biblehub.com/john/7-51.htm

Quote
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”

Probably nothing.

I doubt the password will be a hash of a bible passage, too many differing translations. Also there are many "7:51" passages in the bible from different dudes... time to try a different angle.
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hmmm i think you are to far away... 7:51... maybe transaction 7 to 51 on the public key? bits? 0.1001011 0.1000111? damn...
Maybe the "Face" is a bridge with two holes and a stone way/chain bridge in front?

Edit: Had someone watched the movie alice on minute 7:51?

mirth23 did!

7:51 in the Disney version is when Alice is talking to the doorknob, telling it that she's looking for a white rabbit. I'm dubious about that direction since it's hard to pin down exact times in films, especially with so many different releaes of the same film out there. That said, the doorknob does tell her she needs to get bigger to reach a key...
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Yesterday i was convinced the image was the cheshire cat... but today i remembered something which led me to:

"Skull Rock" from Peter Pan - http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Skull_Rock - Supposedly he had a key to open something on this rock...

5 mins later i got:

"Ornamental Skull" from the Legend of Zelda - http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Ornamental_Skull - I think the eyes/nose match the image, but got a few less teeth...
Also from Zelda i found this image: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FDUnOel4YyA/To3UgvXFQ0I/AAAAAAAAAW4/3eFuPLH92Nk/s1600/link+zelda+wallpaper+16+triforce.jpg Looks like our original triangle, but i had no luck trying to match it with what we have.
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