wow i love the btc puzzle....its quite challenging, cracking the brain 
quite challenging? i watch people trying to crack it and i try to solve it myself but it is nearly impossible to do that, also there is a lower/upper case problem 
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43 +theKey[42] = new PKeyChar('b'); #balloon is not a proper noun (perhaps try all too)I think you shouldn't overthink the answers too much. that picture can be a sperm entering the egg
there was a suggestion about those two number only pictures (36 and 54) and someone said these are from Periodic table which I think is like overthinking but since I don't see the suggestions here I though I mention them: Kr and Xe
I think OP or whoever the creator is should give more hints because it seems unsolvable so far.
Challenging task..but good luck to the winner..wish a happy winning..
Code:
43 +theKey[42] = new PKeyChar('b'); #balloon is not a proper noun (perhaps try all too)
thanks for the explanation.
so here is my updated code with 1,937,664 keys and nothing is right:
https://gist.github.com/Coding-Enthusiast/feeb2200b6201c94fec1bd5b704a2b67
(i will update this in the future if i find a different answer)
maybe others see what i don't see!
so here is my updated code with 1,937,664 keys and nothing is right:
https://gist.github.com/Coding-Enthusiast/feeb2200b6201c94fec1bd5b704a2b67
(i will update this in the future if i find a different answer)
maybe others see what i don't see!
That's nicely laid out. I just finished night shift so I'm a little tired but I can contribute a few revisions. First of all, you should only put capitals on proper nouns.
Code:
4 +theKey[3] = new PKeyChar(new char[] { '3', 'p' }); #the symbol is of the miniscule Greek letter pi not Pi
5 +theKey[4] = new PKeyChar('A'); # Atari is the name of a company and must have a capital
6 +theKey[5] = new PKeyChar('p'); #parachute is not a proper noun
7 +theKey[6] = new PKeyChar('j'); # jet is not a proper noun
8 +theKey[7] = new PKeyChar('w'); # almost certainly this is a wing from the previous image
10 +theKey[9] = new PKeyChar(new char[] { 'Y', 'y' });# The term yo-yo was deemed generic in the U.S. in 1965 maybe try both capital and miniscule for this
12 +theKey[11] = new PKeyChar('i'); # an iron is not a proper noun
16 +theKey[15] = new PKeyChar(new char[] { 'X', 'R', 'k', 'p', 'r', 'x' }); #try the minuscule for X and R as well as k for knee, and p for patella
18 +theKey[17] = new PKeyChar(new char[] { 'R', 'S', 'r', 's' }); #sonar and radar can also be used without capitals
21 +theKey[20] = new PKeyChar('N'); # Nobel was a persons name (proper noun)
22 +theKey[21] = new PKeyChar(new char[] { 'i', 'h', 's' }); #no capitals and added h for hockey skate
23 +theKey[22] = new PKeyChar('X'); # probably capital
24 +theKey[23] = new PKeyChar('Y'); # which means this is also capital
25 +theKey[24] = new PKeyChar('i'); # igloo is not a proper noun
26 +theKey[25] = new PKeyChar('f'); # film is not a proper noun
27 +theKey[26] = new PKeyChar('G'); # Galileo is a proper noun
29 +theKey[28] = new PKeyChar(The58Char.ToCharArray()); # I think this might be a wildcard so let's try all
39 +theKey[38] = new PKeyChar(new char[] { 'W', 'w'}); #try both
40 +theKey[39] = new PKeyChar('W', '8'); #this style was introduced with windows 8
43 +theKey[42] = new PKeyChar('b'); #balloon is not a proper noun (perhaps try all too)
46 +theKey[45] = new PKeyChar('E'); #Etch-a-Sketch needs a capital
48 +theKey[47] = new PKeyChar('X'); # based on the clue layout, I'm now convinced this represents the element Xenon
49 +theKey[48] = new PKeyChar('m'); #if it truly stands for lamp, use small letter (do you have capacity to make this a wildcard?)
50 +theKey[49] = new PKeyChar('T'); # Tesla is the name of a company (and a family) it needs a capital
51 +theKey[50] = new PKeyChar('m'); # mouse is a generic term so use the small letter
Wish I could do more but I'm getting ready to go on a trip and I wont be able to take my computer with me ;(
Good luck!
wow i love the btc puzzle....its quite challenging, cracking the brain
thanks for the explanation.
so here is my updated code with 1,937,664 keys and nothing is right:
https://gist.github.com/Coding-Enthusiast/feeb2200b6201c94fec1bd5b704a2b67
(i will update this in the future if i find a different answer)
maybe others see what i don't see!
so here is my updated code with 1,937,664 keys and nothing is right:
https://gist.github.com/Coding-Enthusiast/feeb2200b6201c94fec1bd5b704a2b67
(i will update this in the future if i find a different answer)
maybe others see what i don't see!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
I can't complain about many of your solutions but I strongly disagree with
#16. This must be Linus Yale Jr as he Yale created one of the first lock sets that used a pin and tumbler design.
Really like your idea for
#48 lamp. I hadn't thought of that. As far as
#35, I think Pfizer and Viagra are possibilities but not Z (Z seems too obvious).
As for hex conversion,
here a number is represented in base 10
10n10n-110n-2...10n-(n-1)100
100=1 (ones)
101=10 (tens)
102=100 (hundreds)
103=1000 (thousands)
104=10000 (ten thousands)
and a number represented in base 16 looks similar
16n16n-116n-2...16n-(n-1)160
To convert to hex, divide by 16n where n is a value that will give you a number not greater than the number being converted but will not result in a number greater than 16 when divided. Do the same with the remainder until you have a number less than 16 which will represent the final digit.
numbers greater than 9 are represented as the letters A through F.
ie convert 20,000 decimal to hex
first division?
160=1 (too small)
161=16 (too small)
162=256 (too small)
163=4096 (maybe) <--- use this one
164=65535 (too large)
20,000/163=4 remainder 3616
3616/162=14 remainder 32
32/161=2 remainder 0
0/160=0
so,
the 4th digit from the right is 4
the 3rd digit from the right is E (E represents 14)
the 2nd digit from the right is 2
the 1st digit from the right is 0
20,000 dec = 4E20 hex
Hope that explains it.
I can't complain about many of your solutions but I strongly disagree with
#16. This must be Linus Yale Jr as he Yale created one of the first lock sets that used a pin and tumbler design.
Really like your idea for
#48 lamp. I hadn't thought of that. As far as
#35, I think Pfizer and Viagra are possibilities but not Z (Z seems too obvious).
As for hex conversion,
here a number is represented in base 10
10n10n-110n-2...10n-(n-1)100
100=1 (ones)
101=10 (tens)
102=100 (hundreds)
103=1000 (thousands)
104=10000 (ten thousands)
and a number represented in base 16 looks similar
16n16n-116n-2...16n-(n-1)160
To convert to hex, divide by 16n where n is a value that will give you a number not greater than the number being converted but will not result in a number greater than 16 when divided. Do the same with the remainder until you have a number less than 16 which will represent the final digit.
numbers greater than 9 are represented as the letters A through F.
ie convert 20,000 decimal to hex
first division?
160=1 (too small)
161=16 (too small)
162=256 (too small)
163=4096 (maybe) <--- use this one
164=65535 (too large)
20,000/163=4 remainder 3616
3616/162=14 remainder 32
32/161=2 remainder 0
0/160=0
so,
the 4th digit from the right is 4
the 3rd digit from the right is E (E represents 14)
the 2nd digit from the right is 2
the 1st digit from the right is 0
20,000 dec = 4E20 hex
Hope that explains it.
##Firstly, it's not a shit puzzle; it's challenging.##
there is a big difference between these two.here is where i am at, lets work out the possibilities.
3) either P or 3
7) have no clue: 58 char
12) highly doubt it is anything other than puzzle
15) radiology or x-ray: R/X
16) i think it is August Schleicher so A but not sure
17) radar or sonar: R / S
18) have no clue: 58 char
30) E, V or C
35) it must be Z but to be sure: 58 char
36&54) can anybody explain how you convert 36 to 24 and 54 to 36 as you said before "converted from hex" i don't know hot this is done.
42) this is definitely not a balloon because of the arrow hear. now get this, i think this is a flash game that i can not remember the name but it is like this: in a 2d page you are a guy standing with your back to camera and shooting an arrow like the picture to the top and there is a big ball (circle) bouncing around when the arrow hits the ball it splits the ball to two different balls and so on until you destroy all the small balls. i hope someone can remember the name.
it is a name like ball buster, bubble breaker (all starting with b) : B
48) i go with LAMP: M (nothing else fits)
upper and lower case:
working on it.
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For the Jet image I'm also using F14 an now I think y should have added M for Mig
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For the Jet image I'm also using F14 an now I think y should have added M for Mig
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if the plane picture is representing a Mig, or F14,... then it makes the whole puzzle a bad design (shit puzzle) because the puzzle should have only one solution and it should have enough clues so that you can find that only one solution.
here there is only a picture of a place that looks like Fighter places which are called Jets and all those other answers are types of Jets and unless there is clue pointing to the picture being F## or Mig there is no reason for choosing a non-obvious answer.
same goes for the rest.
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It is evident there are mistakes since he found nothing. The whole point of this thread was to share your ideas and solutions. So where do you think the mistakes lie?
It is evident there are mistakes since he found nothing. The whole point of this thread was to share your ideas and solutions. So where do you think the mistakes lie?
i will share my variations in a while. but i am sure the problem is with upper/lower case.
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how long did it actually take you to get through all those possibilities? besides that i think there are a lot of mistakes so it wont be possible to find it out
how long did it actually take you to get through all those possibilities? besides that i think there are a lot of mistakes so it wont be possible to find it out
about an hour, my CPU is super old haha. honestly i am surprised that it only took an hour to go through 149 Million
mouse over the time i posted the previous comment it shows the edit time
Firstly, it's not a shit puzzle; it's challenging. I don't share your concern with respect to capital/miniscule letters. If the clue represents a proper noun, then the letter must be capitalized. The word jet should not be capitalized whereas Steve Jobs requires capital letters. Perhaps there might be some ambiguity with Kevlar but the occaisional pair to test isn't going to make it impossible. We need to solve the clues for the letters they represent; not knowing those results in 58 possibilities for the character and that is the largest determination of difficulty in solving the puzzle.
One thing that I find frustrating is that even though I have tried half a billion possibilities which failed to result in a valid key, I am unable to rule out any possibilities.
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For the Jet image I'm also using F14 an now I think y should have added M for Mig
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For the Jet image I'm also using F14 an now I think y should have added M for Mig
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if the plane picture is representing a Mig, or F14,... then it makes the whole puzzle a bad design (shit puzzle) because the puzzle should have only one solution and it should have enough clues so that you can find that only one solution.
here there is only a picture of a place that looks like Fighter places which are called Jets and all those other answers are types of Jets and unless there is clue pointing to the picture being F## or Mig there is no reason for choosing a non-obvious answer.
same goes for the rest.
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It is evident there are mistakes since he found nothing. The whole point of this thread was to share your ideas and solutions. So where do you think the mistakes lie?
It is evident there are mistakes since he found nothing. The whole point of this thread was to share your ideas and solutions. So where do you think the mistakes lie?
i will share my variations in a while. but i am sure the problem is with upper/lower case.
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how long did it actually take you to get through all those possibilities? besides that i think there are a lot of mistakes so it wont be possible to find it out
how long did it actually take you to get through all those possibilities? besides that i think there are a lot of mistakes so it wont be possible to find it out
about an hour, my CPU is super old haha. honestly i am surprised that it only took an hour to go through 149 Million
mouse over the time i posted the previous comment it shows the edit time
The LED was invented in 1962 
I'm still baffled by the number of hashes you can compute.
I just optimized my script from computing 5 keys / second to 25 keys / second.
What is the rate of your scripts?
I just optimized my script from computing 5 keys / second to 25 keys / second.
What is the rate of your scripts?
No! I can't! I just did the table to correlate extra characters with possible number of combinations, so I know the size of the problem.
this is one tough puzzle 
For the Jet image I'm also using F14 an now I think y should have added M for Mig
I'm trying also with R from Royal Air Force, just in case haha
Edit: any other ideas from the "wingtip" clue? Probably it is another thing
I'm still baffled by the number of hashes you can compute.
I just optimized my script from computing 5 keys / second to 25 keys / second.
What is the rate of your scripts?
I just optimized my script from computing 5 keys / second to 25 keys / second.
What is the rate of your scripts?
Hello.
I think a weak point is correct case, maibe it should be determined in one way. For example, in the image with the led, which could be buLb, the 'L' MUST be uppercase, so it could be posible that all images with the same 2 colours represents an uppercase char, like Windows for example and the inverted ones a lowercase char, like igloo. It is posible for me, another case-clue can be the two chromosome images, colours from XX corresponding to uppercase and Xx to lower.
I also wrote a simple program to fuzze and validate the private key with no results for now.
For the Jet image I'm also using F14 an now I think y should have added M for Mig
Edit:
Here is a table showing how many combinations are posible for each extra character you add. Bruteforcing case will take a long time, there are around 3e+29 combinations just considering case.
0 1
1 53
2 1431
3 26235
4 367290
5 4187106
6 40475358
7 341149446
8 2558620845
9 17341763505
10 1,07519E+11
11 6,1579E+11
12 3,28421E+12
I think a weak point is correct case, maibe it should be determined in one way. For example, in the image with the led, which could be buLb, the 'L' MUST be uppercase, so it could be posible that all images with the same 2 colours represents an uppercase char, like Windows for example and the inverted ones a lowercase char, like igloo. It is posible for me, another case-clue can be the two chromosome images, colours from XX corresponding to uppercase and Xx to lower.
I also wrote a simple program to fuzze and validate the private key with no results for now.
For the Jet image I'm also using F14 an now I think y should have added M for Mig
Edit:
Here is a table showing how many combinations are posible for each extra character you add. Bruteforcing case will take a long time, there are around 3e+29 combinations just considering case.
0 1
1 53
2 1431
3 26235
4 367290
5 4187106
6 40475358
7 341149446
8 2558620845
9 17341763505
10 1,07519E+11
11 6,1579E+11
12 3,28421E+12
ok i wrote a code to check the private key but there are so many answers that i don't know or am not sure about the char to put for the picture some are 2 or 3 possibilities and a couple of them are the whole 58 char 
so i am down to 149,846,016 possible private keys assuming the rest of answers are correct and also in correct case (upper or lower)
i will run it for a little while longer and then will give up and try to reduce the possible keys to check.
Update: all checked and nothing found lol
how long did it actually take you to get through all those possibilities? besides that i think there are a lot of mistakes so it wont be possible to find it outso i am down to 149,846,016 possible private keys
assuming the rest of answers are correct and also in correct case (upper or lower) i will run it for a little while longer and then will give up and try to reduce the possible keys to check.
Update: all checked and nothing found lol
It is evident there are mistakes since he found nothing. The whole point of this thread was to share your ideas and solutions. So where do you think the mistakes lie?
ok i wrote a code to check the private key but there are so many answers that i don't know or am not sure about the char to put for the picture some are 2 or 3 possibilities and a couple of them are the whole 58 char
so i am down to 149,846,016 possible private keys assuming the rest of answers are correct and also in correct case (upper or lower)
i will run it for a little while longer and then will give up and try to reduce the possible keys to check.
Update: all checked and nothing found lol
how long did it actually take you to get through all those possibilities? besides that i think there are a lot of mistakes so it wont be possible to find it out so i am down to 149,846,016 possible private keys
assuming the rest of answers are correct and also in correct case (upper or lower) i will run it for a little while longer and then will give up and try to reduce the possible keys to check.
Update: all checked and nothing found lol
ok i wrote a code to check the private key but there are so many answers that i don't know or am not sure about the char to put for the picture some are 2 or 3 possibilities and a couple of them are the whole 58 char
so i am down to 149,846,016 possible private keys assuming the rest of answers are correct and also in correct case (upper or lower)
i will run it for a little while longer and then will give up and try to reduce the possible keys to check.
Update: all checked and nothing found lol
so i am down to 149,846,016 possible private keys
assuming the rest of answers are correct and also in correct case (upper or lower) i will run it for a little while longer and then will give up and try to reduce the possible keys to check.
Update: all checked and nothing found lol
WOW nice one!
I am waiting for the owner of address to sign message as was asked previously in this thread. Will update in time
Do remember to go and visit the wallet owners site and check out the fab designs @ http://www.jangodfrey.com/
Yeah, I really like his style of the designs. It's modern, simple and clean.
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