Topic: [OVER] Riddle game - Solve it and take the loot! (Read 5996 times)

I did not get #1 correct. For some reason I came to the conclusion that it was "DeathAndTaxes"
But again this would have been to easy no ?  

That was a pretty complicated game.  Some well thought out puzzles in there.

Some final words, as promised.

It took me about 2h30 to design the riddles and secure the wallet to hold the loot.
That explains why some where a bit ill-designed, and why I regret riddle #3 which was both shabby and frustrating as it had no intrinsic confirmation.

All in all, the first riddle is the only one I would keep in a serious hunt game. Without the typo, for which I apologize again.

I was shocked when Kris posted he had solved 3 riddles out of 5, ten minutes after I had them posted, and thought my 2h30 work would vanish within half an hour, at that moment. Not cool.

I was very amused when cp1 posted a false solution for riddle #1 and still chose to reverse the letters, without any hint about that in the riddle itself, that was incredible... Great intuition, there!

shawshankinmate37927 empiric resolution of the #5 was pretty impressive, though it's actually doable to crack 1 to 1 letter scrambling, just counting occurrences, assume the most frequent letter is a 'e', spot patterns (as he did) etc. Nevertheless, congratulations!

I really appreciated the overall collaboration, and even more, the fair play in the end when SteveB ninja'd the loot.

Thanks again, expect a better designed hunt next week, which might not even need Brainwallet, thanks to cbear (I PM'ed him and begged for details  )

And... Tomato is a fruit, yes!

Yes, thanks for sharing -- I usually do puzzle hunts for free (actually I pay to do them), so it's nice to get paid

Thanks SteveB!

I am working on bring back "Buried Keys" in a new form. It should be interesting if it works.

Received another 0.01 thanks

You could have 5 brain wallets, each with 0.01 BTC in them.  But I don't know if people would just guess random user names.

Wow, I wasn't expecting this kind of answer, haha!
That's really nice of you, thanks.
And so, as I thought, you didn't really try, just waited until only the 4th one was left.

Gotta try to think about some ways to avoid that (hashes ?  )

Please send me any thought to make it more difficult for a late-comer to burn the last one and get the loot.

Oh, and SteveB, I'm not sure how you claimed the loot. But remember to get rid of the winning address private key so it won't ever be used as change one by QT.

Sorry I missed out on this, but I'm glad to see someone doing it - I've been thinking it'd be fun do do Bitcoin "scavenger hunts".

I sent both cp1 and shaw 0.01BTC each as a thank you, as without them I would have never been able to solve all the riddles.
I was only able to solve one riddle and #4 was a lucky guess after looking at the usernames in the lending subforum.

Kouye, please let me know when you start another game and I will add 0.02BTC to the pot.

Your reply crossed a PM I sent to thank you...
Very appreciated, anyway! 

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No problem bro and you have already given 0.05 btc.
I'll wait for your next riddle game and will donate some amount.

Ps: It's 5:19 AM here now, Night guys.. and i'm also not rich (I have around 0.5 USD in my bank acc now lol) but a wise man said, "Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy".

Just got 0.01 BTC, thanks

It's OK, it was a community effort -- thanks for setting it up!

Hence the glasses "hint"

Very kind of you.
I'm tempted to double it, but I'm not that rich, and would prefer putting that 2$ back as a bonus in the next chest I'm probably going to post next week.

I'm trying to think about rules to avoid such an ending, and that's pretty tricky.

SteveB, can you please at least answer this ?
Did you spend a bit of time trying to figure out the solutions, or did you just jump on the occasion when cp1 posted 5/6 answers ?
I won't hate you, whatever your reply, just need a bit of feedback.

Also, Kris, if you still read this, can you confirm you had 3/5 answers within 10 minutes ?

Anyone got ideas about how to mitigate this final-solution-stealing issue ?

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I'm glad that jackjack and pirateat40 were both correct, I should have zoomed in more on tomato!

Sent, You guys are better than Sherlock Holmes lol  

edit: sorry forgot to change fees, anyways it should get confirmed in a minute.

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Thanks escrow.ms!