ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 9.

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Quote from: itod on July 07, 2014, 08:58:38 AM

Quote from: ooxtcoo on July 07, 2014, 08:32:50 AM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: Mitchell on July 06, 2014, 11:59:24 PM

Well, congrats to the one that solved it. I hope you are happy with a little bit extra BTC for your huge shitpile. Wink

Yeah pay up winner, with all your BTC you should spread all that 3.5 BTC to the real problem solvers. Wink

You big meany sitting on your huge Shitpile.

check gatekeepers adress: https://blockchain.info/de/address/19ohKGMSHR7AsBc7rk4uiQrcZPiNqgM3dA

he gived 0.1 btc!

thanks to gatekeeper!

Just to confirm that I've received the 0.1 BTC tip. So much about all those who talked dirty about the solver, I would like to see if they would share the part of the winnings with others.

Thanks, Gatekeeper.

Pretty honorable of him no doubt. Props to him.

itod

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Honey badger just does not care

Quote from: ooxtcoo on July 07, 2014, 08:32:50 AM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: Mitchell on July 06, 2014, 11:59:24 PM

Well, congrats to the one that solved it. I hope you are happy with a little bit extra BTC for your huge shitpile. Wink

Yeah pay up winner, with all your BTC you should spread all that 3.5 BTC to the real problem solvers. Wink

You big meany sitting on your huge Shitpile.

check gatekeepers adress: https://blockchain.info/de/address/19ohKGMSHR7AsBc7rk4uiQrcZPiNqgM3dA

he gived 0.1 btc!

thanks to gatekeeper!

Just to confirm that I've received the 0.1 BTC tip. So much about all those who talked dirty about the solver, I would like to see if they would share the part of the winnings with others.

Thanks, Gatekeeper.

ooxtcoo

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: Mitchell on July 06, 2014, 11:59:24 PM

Well, congrats to the one that solved it. I hope you are happy with a little bit extra BTC for your huge shitpile. Wink

Yeah pay up winner, with all your BTC you should spread all that 3.5 BTC to the real problem solvers. Wink

You big meany sitting on your huge Shitpile.

check gatekeepers adress: https://blockchain.info/de/address/19ohKGMSHR7AsBc7rk4uiQrcZPiNqgM3dA

he gived 0.1 btc!

thanks to gatekeeper!

Joe_Bauers

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GCVMMWH

I disagree with OP using the privkey as the answer, but otherwise interesting puzzle from what I saw of it. Anyone that is interested in this kind of stuff should check out the crypto tools on rumkin.com.

Congrats to winner.

dagi

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Quote from: rapport on July 07, 2014, 04:14:35 AM

long thread, and I searched, but how was z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P obtained from some image?

its from the top line in file wow.jpg

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I enjoyed it until we were directed to Minecraft... It was then at that point I lost all interest.

Congrats to the winner/s!

rapport

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long thread, and I searched, but how was z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P obtained from some image?

Kangaderoo

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Quote from: mujajpr on July 07, 2014, 03:37:28 AM

HI Guys , there's another puzzle with 20 BTC price at warp wallet challenge . but I think it's specially for programmer Roll Eyes

https://keybase.io/warp.

It's just brute-forcing 62^8 (218340105584896) combinations....
@ 1MHash/sec about 252 days of work....

Timmmaahh

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It was an amused riddle

and a good ride Cheesy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcZroW6fGcA

davida

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Quote from: mujajpr on July 07, 2014, 03:37:28 AM

HI Guys , there's another puzzle with 20 BTC price at warp wallet challenge . but I think it's specially for programmer Roll Eyes

https://keybase.io/warp.

That's not so much a puzzle, rather it's a pass phrase that needs brute forced, and considering that they use scrypt and are described to be 'designed to test the safety of WarpWallet' i don't think that will be an easy one to get.

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HI Guys , there's another puzzle with 20 BTC price at warp wallet challenge . but I think it's specially for programmer Roll Eyes

https://keybase.io/warp.

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No I dont escrow anymore.

Quote from: arg on July 06, 2014, 06:29:19 PM

Quote from: shorena on July 06, 2014, 06:16:40 PM

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Quote from: ooxtcoo on July 06, 2014, 05:57:56 PM

btw... the solution is.... one small now is tall... so exchange w with W in the 51 character string...

That's fucking stupid. It's unrelated to any of the information given. Why was the shit on the right of the image then? The OP made a typo in the given key and somehow that's supposed to be part of the ARG?

I dont even get it...

z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P switch(w,W)
-> z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zeWEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P
and then what? shift 6EQUJ5 times?
...
5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kke8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp

Where is the palindrome hint? I am confused and go to sleep maybe someone is nice and write a "for dummies" how to solve the last step so I can finish the pdf.

You get "6EQUJ5", turn it into integers using the pattern in Crops.jpg.

Code:

6EQUJ5 = (decoded) = 6,14,26,30,19,5

You change the w to a W in the string (who the would have thought of that?)

Code:

z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1ze[W]EeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

You shift the key in Wow.jpg by the numbers sequentially, looping once you run out

Code:

5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kAe8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp

You then add 0.35% more to your horde of BTC like Gatekeeper did.

Thank you, as well as the others who gave one, for the answer.
Since you allready had the rest the W might as well be a typo by OP...

Quote from: arg on July 06, 2014, 06:50:11 PM

Quote from: arg-sidekick on July 06, 2014, 06:44:15 PM

Love, sidekick.

Later.

Quote from: micaman on July 06, 2014, 07:04:25 PM

-snip-
EDIT2: the W thing was a fix for a mistake. Could have ended up much worse or not at all. I would have done it all again, no regrets.

It shouldnt have have been. OP stated that the riddle was solved twice beforehand (I assume by someone trusted, e.g. her brother and his wife - who both have the nerdy/techy background) so this error would have shown and could have been corrected.

Quote from: ?? on ??

Now that this is over I wanted to remind people that there's a treasure hunt at mathgate.info:
http://mathgate.info/treasurehunt.php
There are a lot of treasures ranging from 1 mbit to 1 bitcoin, so it's less winner-take-all.
-snip-

You posted that so often I might not go there just because of that. Feels like you need to push that page down our throat.

Oh well its math proofs, ofc you gotta do it. I might check it out Wink

@OP thanks. I will make you a final pdf it might take a few days though, exams are near.

Kprawn

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WoW - Congratulations Gatekeeper and all the people who helped in solving the puzzle.

It was a incredible journey, with 3 days without sleep. This is my first time doing this, and I found it very rewarding.

I HAVE never done so much speed reading in my whole life. I must admit, at times, I felt like giving up, and going to sleep.

Even my kids got into the action at one stage. {Minecraft} Giving tips and inputs.

Thank you to OP for creating a great puzzle, just a pity, the team could not be rewarded. {Mby in the next puzzle}

Looking forward to the next one.

If you want to donate, drop it in here ---> 19k8q8SdW8KSiuBDY3PnY8J9HccHoVa6ET

Swordsoffreedom

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Wow this thread went intense
Also its amazing that someone well technically a whole army worked together to solve this puzzle congrats all around and especially to Gatekeeper

dagi

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Gatekeeper congratulation!!!

Mitchell

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Verified awesomeness ✔

Well, congrats to the one that solved it. I hope you are happy with a little bit extra BTC for your huge shitpile. Wink

Remember remember the 5th of November

legendary

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Reverse engineer from time to time

Quote from: ?? on ??

Thanks again for the comments everyone. The 0.1 payouts are done now, so any more comments about mathgate.info will be for free.

It is good to have gotten this feedback. We'll make use of it.

Perfect. We are in 2014, your layout looks like it was done in 1999, no joke there. There are dozens of free templates out there(that could kill a Core2Duo). Honestly, the website is painful to look at.

rgm108

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lol.
The answer was 'fairly' simple afterall Tongue

Well done to all from the very start and thank you very much for what I've learned along the way.

I do have one small request for OP though. Would you be so kind as to give a short summary of how you thought up all of this with the steps taken? This is just for my own sanity but not a must have.

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Congrats Gatekeeper. hodl, spend, treat it well

erikforfreedom

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

@gadsden76 and @erikforfreedom: I didn't see a bitcoin address for you.

here it is, oops 14zFKyXoK6bCAtSqz4eBQ7sFMSVGpqTVcq

Timmmaahh

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gg awesome game

congratz to Gatekeeper.

any sharings appreciated

1MxQX4MsF3N3oGpawfgM72K5vzEPeLjTyR

had a lot of fun but need sleep now

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