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
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And... Tomato is a fruit, yes!
