Hey everybody,
I haven’t posted anything since Sunday, and that was shortly before my computer and network was attacked by someone.
Now, before I got attacked I have followed a very different, more interesting route on the puzzle than you guys.
Yeah I did. And I have discovered 3 more puzzles!!!
Yay! I love puzzles.
They were quite easy though, but none the less they were fun!
So, this is what I did:
The “shared starting point”
(You all knew I was focused on this)
Hint from OP:
0 = 0A = 10BABYA = 36WOW
So let’s break that down:
0 is the starting point
0A, which means the starting point, then becomes a capital A, I took the first capital A
10BABYA – Count the next 10 characters and you find a “baby” A or a
36WOW – If you look at the tiles over it there all there: 3, 6, w, o, w
But what does that mean?
I immediately thought of morse code.
So, starting top to bottom and left to right, using Green as dash and Red as dot, I have converted the lines that contain 3, 6, w, o, w and this is the result:
3
.. ... - --- .--. . ISTOPE
6
.-.. .-- --. ---. -. -. LWG!NN
lower w
-- --- .-. -.. ... - MORDST
o
- .-- - . .-- - .--. - TWTEWTPT
w
-- .- . ..-. -.. -- ... MAEFDMS
Result is: I S T O P E L W G ! N N M O R D S T T W T E W T P T M A E F D M S
No key here either…
But obviously an anagram.
Original anagram: I S T O P E L W G ! N N M O R D S T T W T E W T P T M A E F D M S
My find: (copy-pasted from my original notes)
S T P W S T E T P T M M S T P T T
DONT
FIND
MORE
EYE
MEETS
WOW!
SIGNAL
MORE MEETS EYE WOW! SIGNAL
More than meets the eye, and Wow! Signal
It made sense to me to check the only hint we haven’t used.
The Wow.jpg
Now it is obvious that the words for a 12 word Dark Wallet seed are in the marked area.
So now this clue makes perfect sense too.
I have tried various combinations but the winner was:
CHANNEL
NUMBER
TWO
VERTICALLY
WRITTEN
EASTERN
DECLIN.
DIGITS
6
6
5
7
The answer was basically the first six words, CHANNEL NUMBER (TWO DIGITS, WRITTEN VERTICALLY).
After submitting that seed I lost connection to the Dark Wallet Gateway and it wouldn’t allow me to reconnect.
And on my next browser refresh after posting this:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7703728my computers and network was under attack.
By whom, I don’t know. But it has cost me a great deal of cash getting everything checked.
And then, when I manage to get back online the game has ended in a much different way than the one I have followed.
I don’t know which is the alternative ending, but I find my version more interesting and more suitable to the puzzle.
What do you guys think?
Anyways, “I had a blast” (funny huh, after the attack) playing this game.
Hopefully there will be more soon.
PS 1: I can literally picture you "guys" on last Sunday, all sitting in the room, having a blast seeing the contestants being stuck for days,
AND THEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN!!!!!Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep…….It’s the alarm that someone has hit the pot!!!!
Oh God, I would love to see your faces when this happened!!!!
PS 2: To the one(s) that have attacked my computer and network, feel free to knock yourself out.
I am at an Internet Cafe so I don’t give a shit.
Besides, I am going home now.