Topic: New Bitcoin Puzzle (Read 18354 times)

The Janus Puzzle was solved! Over $2500 in prize money was claimed. Charlie Lee also solved the puzzle but was beaten at the finish line by the other player. Next puzzle will come with a difficulty rating. Janus Puzzle difficulty can be considered hard.

Decred announcement of solver by Zden/satori: https://twitter.com/decredproject/status/843570325040324608

Solver:

A New Crypto-Puzzle Series Begins:



High resolution image download hosted at https://decred.org/januspuzzle/
The high resolution image contains secret information.

There are others attempting to solve the puzzle on the Decred Slack, on the #puzzles channel.

This text was included in the announcement tweet:
"A tree that does not bend will inevitably break.  The repository unit is corrupt.  Begin." https://twitter.com/decredproject/status/839204577920565248


Current Prize Value: $1500

Any hints for the new mapping?

Interesting stuff, I love the ancient graphics and the general outlook of the puzzle game. Not sure about all the rules though but it's appealing enough to be worth searching and reading on.

I cant guess the puzzle. sorry. I think the image is related to some ancient ear evolution or may have encoded information about bitcoin and its generations. one who had encoded those information will know the logic and technique and i guess its not easy to break  the puzzle.

I wanted to give everyone an update. This past month I've been hired full time by Decred, a digital currency, to do what I love most. Since there's only so much time in the day for family and business, my side interests will have to be on hold. If you're wanting to play any of my crypto puzzles in the near future, look for them to come from Decred. Thank you!

Take as much time as needed, it's not like we payed you for anything 

Unfortunately, due to vacation schedules, our sponsor hasn't been able to resolve a pending issue; therefore, the release is on hold until further notice. Judging by the delay, it doesn't look like I'll be able to honor the promise of a January release.

I still don't know how to find the mapping from the symbols to the alphabet. I tried forming grids from QWERTY and AZERTY keypads (just as Coinnoiseur sugested), but didn't suceed. One of the mapping that I tried is:

Q W E
A S D
Z X C

R T Y
F G H
V B N

U I O
J K L
M P

mirth23 mentioned that the URL to the text game has some hint, but I haven't discovered anything. Any advice?

We are getting close to the next level release. We have one detail we're working out with a sponsor. This issue should be resolved relatively soon. There's been a lot of work into this next level by a handful of people, so I'm very excited to release it. I would expect it within the month, if not sooner. Finalizing one last puzzle piece.  

I'll give everyone a week notice as to the launch date and time.

Any update?

Hi all,

We added a team member and made some additions to the upcoming levels. Therefore, we decided to delay launch until after Christmas. I'll update the thread once we have a specific date and time set.

Well, that was big a let down.  The clock has gone negative.  No mention of level 2 on the website or twitter.

based on first line of squares

QSWSEECPZ
or
OGQGKKSGR

Still no luck, can't figure it out

So is his mapping right though if you get rid of C collumn

I'm not sure why you have 'c' columns/rows in your tables.  In 4pollo's notation, there is only a, b or d (there are only 3 triangle orientations).  Also, remember mirth23's hint that the answer was all caps?

9d not allowed..??
ok lets see what 9d could be to then work out why its not allowed
hex=9(10)+d(14)=24

or simply alphanumerics 9(9)+d(4)=13

i was initially thinking were people hinting it was a simple swap where, hex(9d) to decimal= 10+14 = 24 = X
but the others kept saying "you run out of letters using 9d".. yet 24 possibles is less than the 26 letters of the alphabet.. guess that was too simple of a swap. so its obviously not a straight hex to decimal then decimal to alphabet..

then there were people saying "grids"
yet even the 3 grid system have more then 24 possibles. it has 27 possibles(3grids x 9=27).. again not causing a problem if a 9d was used

so what grid system has less than 24 possibles to wipe out 9d as an option if converting via hex
so what grid system has less than 13 possibles to wipe out 9d as an option if converting via alphanumerics

so im guessing throw out the hex idea and go with alphanumerics. and have a grid of 12 possible results..

ive ruled out

how about this?


any closer? in short does 6a - 7a - 8b equal
ogq    OR    vy4
before i go through the whole thing?

what im still trying to understand about the hints. is the involvement of the web address as part of the answer
is it just hinting to type the answer into the address bar instead of the word game keypad or the answer includes the address

Any hints for the new mapping?

Using the 3 grids for a mapping as I described didn't work but it was down the right path.  I searched for an alternate mapping and finally found one (even simpler) that worked.  My comment about there being no '9d' is a BIG hint though as it applies to the right mapping too (using 4pollo's notation).

Also, in my search I ended up going through all the possibilities for some dot positions.  5 squares seemed either ambiguous or a complete unknown so I just ran through all combinations.  I can say that the majority of 4pollo's grid is correct.