cp1 and shaw can you both post your wallet. I'll send 0.01BTC each to both of you.
Topic: [OVER] Riddle game - Solve it and take the loot! - page 2. (Read 5996 times)
Thanks to all who tried, and congrats to the winner SteveB.
I'll wait for comments and post a final word about how it went from my point of view, so the next riddle games attempts (which will be so frequent we'll get a sub for them, hopefully) can profit from this little experience.
Thanks again! (and sorry, cp1 and shawshankinmate37927, you were so dedicated...
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I'll wait for comments and post a final word about how it went from my point of view, so the next riddle games attempts (which will be so frequent we'll get a sub for them, hopefully) can profit from this little experience.
Thanks again! (and sorry, cp1 and shawshankinmate37927, you were so dedicated...
)No worries. I just wanted someone to win it. I'd would have hated to see the prize go unclaimed.
Thanks to all who tried, and congrats to the winner SteveB.
I'll wait for comments and post a final word about how it went from my point of view, so the next riddle games attempts (which will be so frequent we'll get a sub for them, hopefully) can profit from this little experience.
Thanks again! (and sorry, cp1 and shawshankinmate37927, you were so dedicated...)
I'll wait for comments and post a final word about how it went from my point of view, so the next riddle games attempts (which will be so frequent we'll get a sub for them, hopefully) can profit from this little experience.
Thanks again! (and sorry, cp1 and shawshankinmate37927, you were so dedicated...
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Riddle # 5
"This tea is A grade!"
YGKA ZJYGDK OKWPGI, VDKA ACO NOAAOPK, BOOH ACO WJKO.
"This tea is A grade!"
YGKA ZJYGDK OKWPGI, VDKA ACO NOAAOPK, BOOH ACO WJKO.
You all got it, this was a Caesar code.
Congratulations to shawshankinmate37927 to solve this without figuring the code.
You all correctly got the T=A hint.
But that made no sense, once translated using this code, as everyone could see.
The trick was the letters order was not the alphabet, but the keyboard order.
Then it was just a Caesar shift.
QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM
UIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNMQWERTY
Maybe I should have put a keyboard image instead of Caesar...
Using this translation, the message was MOST FAMOUS ESCROW, JUST THE LETTERS, KEEP THE CASE.
Which was trivial to figure, then... JohnJohnK was the answer!
That's somehting to try first, when an apparent Caesar does not work, try with another letter order, keyboard layout being the second most popular after the alphabet, and this forum is filled with geeks...
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Riddle # 4
Start here :
Go straight to the river, and follow it south, until you find the fruit that will dismiss sir Nicolas.
Start here :
Go straight to the river, and follow it south, until you find the fruit that will dismiss sir Nicolas.
I think everyone found this one easy, it was just a matter of using tinyeye to get the starting point.
Which was Blytheville, Arkansas.
The Mississipi is close, just go to google map and scroll following the river south.
The only tricky part is that you had to zoom enough as it is really not a big city.
Then the part about dismissing Nicolas (Cage) was just a confirmation you found the right one.
Tomatocage was the answer!
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Riddle # 3
He thought it was a french fry, but it was a french DRY! Drink, sing then sink!
He thought it was a french fry, but it was a french DRY! Drink, sing then sink!
This was was poorly designed, and a bit tricky, as it did not give a direct answer.
As escrow.ms found out, the french translation of dry is sec.
since dry was uppercased - which it was not in 1st version, it leaves you with those clues:
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SEC
Drink
Sing
And finally, Sink.
Drink
Sing
And finally, Sink.
I was really thinking that would be sufficient to lead to pirateat40
Pirates Drink, sing, and occasinally sink, too, don't they ?
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Riddle # 2
Pe
Fame, Sound, Honor and Shame (on you, facebook!)
yt
Hmm... No, something's wrong.
Pe
Fame, Sound, Honor and Shame (on you, facebook!)
yt
Hmm... No, something's wrong.
This was was fairly easy.
You just had to replace the second line by "wall", which was pointed out by all the hints about different kinds of walls
Which ended up in:
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Pe
wall
yt
wall
yt
But something is still wrong. The 2 vowels in line 1 and 3 are switched.
Finally, Pywallet comes to mind, which is currently maintained by jackjack, who was the final answer.
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Riddle # 1
- Nothing is c3rtain but Death and That.
- There are two of them to any question.
- Bob of all trades, master of none. (*)
- Never listen to those three advisers - The night, Love and... And... Errr...
- Two of those are better than one.
(*) Money does not do that on trees.
- Nothing is c3rtain but Death and That.
- There are two of them to any question.
- Bob of all trades, master of none. (*)
- Never listen to those three advisers - The night, Love and... And... Errr...
- Two of those are better than one.
(*) Money does not do that on trees.
Each line missed a word, which you had to figure.
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taxes
side
jack
wine
heads
grow
side
jack
wine
heads
grow
Then each line contained a number index to extract a letter from each of those words
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3 => ta(x)es
2 => s(i)des
I'm skipping the 3rd one for now, since it refers to the last
3 => wi(n)e
2 better than 1, so 2=> h(e)ads
hidden within money, 1=> (g)row
And now the 3rd one was pointing to the last one to hint about the fact the index could be hidden in another word.
Master of none
1=> (j)ack
2 => s(i)des
I'm skipping the 3rd one for now, since it refers to the last
3 => wi(n)e
2 better than 1, so 2=> h(e)ads
hidden within money, 1=> (g)row
And now the 3rd one was pointing to the last one to hint about the fact the index could be hidden in another word.
Master of none
1=> (j)ack
Which gives:
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x
i
j
n
e
g
i
j
n
e
g
Which gives, once reversed : genjix
The 3rd line referencing the last was both a hint, and some sort of a false lead, but the last one was actually working the exact same way.
I FU with the 4th riddle text and used "advisor" instead of "adviser", which made it much more difficult to find on google.
Is it a fruit or a vegetable?
Thanks for the BTC!
Thanks for the BTC!
Ok, congrats... I guess...
Bit dissappointed you just took advantage og cp1 sharing his solutions.
OI!!!! Where's the loot gone ?
Just been stolen away!
Just been stolen away!
lol
Now answers please ?
Ps: Congrats steve
Is it a fruit or a vegetable?
Thanks for the BTC!
Thanks for the BTC!
OI!!!! Where's the loot gone ?
Just been stolen away!
Just been stolen away!
Is glasses a hint, or just a reference to his avatar?
Just borrow some before following the instructions.
My guesses:
1) genjix
2) jackjack
3) pirateat40
4) ?? nbartlett or njbartlett -- Bartlett is the only city I can find
5) JohnJohnK -- already provided above
Is glasses a hint, or just a reference to his avatar?
Now I'm looking for nicolas, glass, or a fruit along the mississippi...
1) genjix
2) jackjack
3) pirateat40
4) ?? nbartlett or njbartlett -- Bartlett is the only city I can find
5) JohnJohnK -- already provided above
Is glasses a hint, or just a reference to his avatar?
Now I'm looking for nicolas, glass, or a fruit along the mississippi...
Ugh, I tried Shakespeare, because it has pear in it, and the address was 18EL... so close
Riddle #4 gives a direct username, not just a hint to it.
Provided what you shared with shawshankinmate37927, I'm sure he'll be able to help... He's got glasses
Ugh, I tried Shakespeare, because it has pear in it, and the address was 18EL... so close
Yeah, but the picture is from the wikipedia page of Blytheville, AR, which is right on the Mississippi.
I got the same, but that means I'm wrong on one or more of the others
I don't understand the Sir Nicolas bit, so it's probably that one. The only fruit named city on the Mississippi with a remotely close username I could find was Bartlett.
Hmmmm, there's a city named Fountain in Colorado. Start there maybe, then go straight to the river?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain,_Colorado
I got the same, but that means I'm wrong on one or more of the others
I don't understand the Sir Nicolas bit, so it's probably that one. The only fruit named city on the Mississippi with a remotely close username I could find was Bartlett.
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