New Bitcoin Puzzle

[mi1994]

Diagonal? north east to south west and rotated 180 (Early and no coffee yet)

Yeah,was a bit too quick to write that, whatever way you split it evenly is going to give two very similar sections.
Just seems weird that on such a large image there are only 2 differences in the pattern and they are very close together.

Tried manually decoding it as an Aztec anyway, but didn't get a working code, although i could have made a mistake. 

[Izerian]

Diagonal? north east to south west and rotated 180 (Early and no coffee yet)

Yeah,was a bit too quick to write that, whatever way you split it evenly is going to give two very similar sections.
Just seems weird that on such a large image there are only 2 differences in the pattern and they are very close together.

Tried manually decoding it as an Aztec anyway, but didn't get a working code, although i could have made a mistake. 

I tried the same last night to no avail; even with a straight edge and grid paper.

[Joel_Jantsen]

Really cool game, but it almost made my computer crash because the imagine resolution is so big that it was struggling to render it. I guess I need to buy a new computer.

REALLY ? Are you still using windows xp mate ? Processing an image ,especially that one ,should be done by even old processors .Don't think that could be a problem.

What is the total prize of BTC for the winner? only winner gets BTC or you can find small BTC rewards?

No one has idea about that as such for now.Maybe the prices will be revealed later.Puzzle is interesting though.

[Kprawn]

Did anyone notice any significance in the scuff marks on the golden pegs? I love these puzzles, and was thinking why we had none of these for quite some time... the previous puzzles was VERY good

and showed me how brilliant some of these forum members are at creative thinking and general knowledge. Let's hope this one is just as amazing as the previous puzzles. I am curious to know what the

prize of this one would be... The amount will determine the interest in solving the puzzle. 

[rickadone]

This is actually really fun but it's quite confusing.
But that's the point of a puzzle, right? I hope I'll be able to find out the puzzle or whatever this is all about. I keep clicking the "About" tab, but nothing happens so I don't have any clue what the objective is all about.

[dalek]

I found the extrazoom interface to be annoying so I downloaded all the tiles and created a single large image at full resolution: http://speedyshare.com/V7qbW/826cb985/download/map.jpeg

[Bitcoinpro]

Really cool game, but it almost made my computer crash because the imagine resolution is so big that it was struggling to render it. I guess I need to buy a new computer.

What is the total prize of BTC for the winner? only winner gets BTC or you can find small BTC rewards?

your computer could handle a 1 GB image

i opened a 512 MB 10 years ago

[coin@coin]

I found the extrazoom interface to be annoying so I downloaded all the tiles and created a single large image at full resolution: http://speedyshare.com/V7qbW/826cb985/download/map.jpeg

Thanks for that! Very handy.

[dalek]

Really cool game, but it almost made my computer crash because the imagine resolution is so big that it was struggling to render it. I guess I need to buy a new computer.

What is the total prize of BTC for the winner? only winner gets BTC or you can find small BTC rewards?

your computer could handle a 1 GB image

i opened a 512 MB 10 years ago

The largest tile image size is 150K, so it's more likely his browser has an issue with the flash plugin.

[dalek]

I found the extrazoom interface to be annoying so I downloaded all the tiles and created a single large image at full resolution: http://speedyshare.com/V7qbW/826cb985/download/map.jpeg

Thanks for that! Very handy.

In case anybody wants to do that for a future puzzle, this is what I did:

Code:

for x in $(gseq 0 15); do for y in $(gseq 0 15); do wget http://extrazoom.com/files/nhm/image-60156/13/${x}_${y}.jpeg; done; done

Code:

montage -tile 16x16 -mode Concatenate $(gls -v *.jpeg) map.jpeg

[socks435]

The puzzle is confused how about the reward how much reward we will get if we solve this puzzle..
Honestly i dont understand the puzzle.. and looks like there a qr code and it needs to send few bitcoins before you can start a puzzle..

[dalek]

The puzzle is confused how about the reward how much reward we will get if we solve this puzzle..
Honestly i dont understand the puzzle.. and looks like there a qr code and it needs to send few bitcoins before you can start a puzzle..

Maybe you should try her previous puzzle which still has an unclaimed 4.87 BTC prize: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766000

[dalek]

The picture has many cells and the colors and triangles could all hold information.

im guessing u mean something like

This looks like a pigpen cipher which was also used in the previous unsolved puzzle.

Also note that the placement of the white triangle on each 3x3 grid can have 4 different orientations, but only 3 orientations are ever used. There is no grid that has a triangle in this orientation: ◣

[Pompobit]

I don't think it's a valid Aztec code because it's missing orientation marks. However the pattern is quite interesting as if you split it horizontally the two halves are almost identical, and i find it hard to believe that that is a complete coincidence.

right, I read the aztec code specifications and there is something strange on orientation marks. It should have 3,2,1 and 0 black tiles near corners but it has 3,0,3,0 black tiles, so it is not valid.

About the specularity, I think it should be considered with a vertical middle line, for two reasons:

1 - both the two tiles that are not specular lie on that line, not sure what it means
2- if the map is an half of an aztec code, the corners with 0-tiles black should be the next one to the corner with 3 black tiles in counterclockwise order. This is possible only if you consider the vertical half of the map.

[dalek]

The picture has many cells and the colors and triangles could all hold information.

im guessing u mean something like

This looks like a pigpen cipher which was also used in the previous unsolved puzzle.

Also note that the placement of the white triangle on each 3x3 grid can have 4 different orientations, but only 3 orientations are ever used. There is no grid that has a triangle in this orientation: ◣

Using the grid numbering as above, and the position of the triangle, where ◤=a, ◥=b, ◢=d, the map becomes:

Code:

6b 7a 8b             7a 2b 2b    1d             6a    9b
8a    1d    1d    3d 7a 1a       1d    2a 3b 1a 6d 5a
         7a       6b 1a       7b 5d 5b 4a    7b 2d
      9b 2d             8a 3b 5a 3d 8b          2d
         6a 7b 9a    8d          7b 7b       8d    4d
4d    6b    3d 2b 7b 2b 2b 7b 2a 9b 5b 4d    8d 1b 4b
   1b 8a    2a 4b                      2a 1b 8b
6d             3d    6b 9a 4a 8b 3d    7d 8a
   1a    9a 4a 6d    7d          1a    5a
3a    6a 2b    7d    4a    7d    6b    3d    3b 7a    4b
               3d    3d          9b    4b 3b 4b    1b
            9a 5a    9a 5a 3a 6a 4b    8a             9b
         3b 1a 9b                      2b 8a    8d 6b
   8a 2a 6a    8a 1b 1b 8a 7a 1a 7a 3b 9a 7a    6b    4d
   7d    9b       5b 2b    6b    6d    1b 1b 1b
      *b          3b 1b 6b 3b 3a             3b 7d
      1b 6a    3a 8b 5b 9a       7a 2a       8d
   2d 6b *a 6d 5d    5d    1a 1b 7a 5b    6d    7b    5d
7b    2d             3d    8d 3d 9b             7d 8b 6a

And the character count is:

Code:

1b 7a 6b 3d 8a 7b 3b 9b 2b 1a 9a 7d 6a 8d 8b 4b 2a 6d 5b 5a 2d 5d 4d 4a 3a 1d *b *a
12 10 10 10  9  9  9  8  8  8  7  7  7  6  6  6  6  6  5  5  5  4  4  4  4  4  1  1

So there's 26 unique characters, so we probably just have to assign the right letters to these.

[Pompobit]

are you sure? I was trying the same thing yesterday and I found only 26 different characters. I don't have my notes at the moment so I can't say you where my findings differ from yours, but if my memory serves me, the symbol with the red square in the bottom right position and with ◢ never occurs.

[Pompobit]

found it, your 9d is a 6d instead

[dalek]

found it, your 9d is a 6d instead

thanks, updated

[Hitman079]

Code:

1b 7a 6b 3d 8a 7b 3b 9b 2b 1a 9a 7d 6a 8d 8b 4b 2a 6d 5b 5a 2d 5d 4d 4a 3a 1d *b *a
12 10 10 10  9  9  9  8  8  8  7  7  7  6  6  6  6  6  5  5  5  4  4  4  4  4  1  1

So there's 26 unique characters, so we probably just have to assign the right letters to these.

Surely that's not an english plaintext, frequency distribution doesn't fit.
We can try a bruteforce and see if something show up.

[Izerian]

Code:

1b 7a 6b 3d 8a 7b 3b 9b 2b 1a 9a 7d 6a 8d 8b 4b 2a 6d 5b 5a 2d 5d 4d 4a 3a 1d *b *a
12 10 10 10  9  9  9  8  8  8  7  7  7  6  6  6  6  6  5  5  5  4  4  4  4  4  1  1

So there's 26 unique characters, so we probably just have to assign the right letters to these.

Surely that's not an english plaintext, frequency distribution doesn't fit.
We can try a bruteforce and see if something show up.

Brute force is against the "rules", no?