[OVER] Riddle game - Solve it and take the loot!

[shawshankinmate37927]

FUUUUUU, I just checked something, and the 4th one is actually kinda hard to find using google - though possible - because of a typo, I'm sooo sorry!
It's fixed.

advisors=>advisers

Keep on!

http://www.inspirationalstories.com/proverbs/german-never-listen-to-these-three-advisers-wine/

[cp1]

Ahhh thanks
So now I have 1 (I think), but the brain wallet isn't coming out (compressed or uncompressed), which means I've got another one wrong

[Kouye]

The passphrase should be composed by a concat of the usernames you found, without space between them.
Uncompressed.

I had tysat verify the the passphrase before I posted this whole riddle, and just tripled cheked it, it's right.
So I guess you have a small glitch somewhere.

[shawshankinmate37927]

xijneg backwards = genjix

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1931

[cp1]

xijneg backwards = genjix

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1931

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.

[shawshankinmate37927]

xijneg backwards = genjix

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1931

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

[cp1]

Yeah, but the picture is from the wikipedia page of Blytheville, AR, which is right on the Mississippi.

[cp1]

Ugh, I tried Shakespeare, because it has pear in it, and the address was 18EL... so close

[Kouye]

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 

[cp1]

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...

[Kouye]

Is glasses a hint, or just a reference to his avatar?

Just borrow some before following the instructions. 

[Kouye]

OI!!!! Where's the loot gone ?
Just been stolen away!

[SteveB]

Is it a fruit or a vegetable? 

Thanks for the BTC!

[escrow.ms]

OI!!!! Where's the loot gone ?
Just been stolen away!

lol
Now answers please ?

Ps: Congrats steve

[Kouye]

Is it a fruit or a vegetable? 

Thanks for the BTC!

Ok, congrats... I guess...
Bit dissappointed you just took advantage og cp1 sharing his solutions.

[Kouye]

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.

Each line missed a word, which you had to figure.

taxes
side
jack
wine
heads
grow

Then each line contained a number index to extract a letter from each of those words

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

Which gives:

x
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.

[Kouye]

Riddle # 2
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:

Pe
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.

[Kouye]

Riddle # 3
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:

SEC
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 ?

[Kouye]

Riddle # 4
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!

[Kouye]

Riddle # 5
"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...