Bitcoin Quest - a brain twister, by solving it you get bitcoins!

[vlom]

thank you. i already have difficulties to find the starting points.
all the seeds i tried so far dont match. electrum does not allow me to klick on next.

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[kursexpert]

7 seeds found at the moment https://blockchain.info/ru/tree/348451340

[Thirdspace]

7 seeds found at the moment https://blockchain.info/ru/tree/348451340

wow... another 5 found in a very short time, less than a day... leave 1 for me please
would you tell us the other 5 seeds that has just been found/claimed?
that would greatly help others to find the last 5 seeds

[kursexpert]

7 seeds found at the moment https://blockchain.info/ru/tree/348451340

wow... another 5 found in a very short time, less than a day... leave 1 for me please
would you tell us the other 5 seeds that has just been found/claimed?
that would greatly help others to find the last 5 seeds

Jeff Fawkes, [21.05.18 13:07] shed rich piano velvet table hollow share burst fluid myself impact gift 1K4kWvTgzvDKE4FzWzJjk7VwYTwJbQLSbp

Jeff Fawkes, [21.05.18 13:07] expect hire bless dash doll girl ritual custom climb acquire ring call 1HmcNg3SFUWqUxDxeyLXpqhdG7D2xL326z

Jeff Fawkes, [21.05.18 13:07] energy matter cheap juice resource flip mouse food real mass minor fiscal 1HC3N1vnEGP6mNApqQjfu3EiiAxGJVx6iX

Jeff Fawkes, [21.05.18 13:08] initial maximum inside drink elder position just industry festival since rookie estate 1CTSwrac1UaCnaCc1xrRUzARjik7DvvHAs

Jeff Fawkes, [21.05.18 13:08] board where target win trick clown error arm screen tunnel away cloud 1AgtU23qpbKsK9i3Gn3Tmf7rf6Xn1RbPY1

Jeff Fawkes, [21.05.18 13:08] dad supreme anxiety spread train where camp lottery neglect melt life science 12UJ1GUueCNLcdip2d5jEJWRj7g1RoC688

Jeff Fawkes, [21.05.18 13:09] bar notable hub rhythm open resource patrol hold dose design worth crawl 123K9FKXr3tbWqedtehV8edaXk4P1LB5pb

[LoyceV]

If only I would have seen this sooner! I've spent quite a lot of time on it today, and found several "N1" words that haven't been found yet, but I always end up at a dead end. A very big printer and red pen would help, but all I have is the red pen.
I love hunts like this!

New plan: red and green paint in the image, scroll and zoom, until I've reproduced all existing winners first

[kursexpert]

100 usd found:

lucky wife devote glow east rapid pizza advance good erosion style before

[kursexpert]

Seems like only one seed left https://blockchain.info/ru/tree/348451340
But i dont have other words yet.

[nc50lc]

Seems like only one seed left https://blockchain.info/ru/tree/348451340
But i dont have other words yet.

Look again, all prices were now claimed  
Seems like after the discovered seeds got posted, the others became too easy to connect by crossing out the used words (that has no "x2" mark), especially for the 5x consecutive solo winner, but hiding the words is also to his advantage.
Connecting them is too tricky because the arrows aren't exactly pointing to the direction of next word.

Theoretically, judging from the total number of words, someone can write a software to bruteforce the possible seeds based on the words from the image. 120~ish, that's a very small library compared to BIP39's or even Electrum's Word list.
Just a possibility, never mind.

Ready for the second round!

[vlom]

did anybody try it with "brutforcing"? the first words were know and the last words too. sometimes i really hate that i dont know how to program well enough to do such calculations.

[LoyceV]

Theoretically, judging from the total number of words, someone can write a software to bruteforce the possible seeds based on the words from the image. 120~ish, that's a very small library compared to BIP39's or even Electrum's Word list.
Just a possibility, never mind.

I highly doubt that! Even if you assume you know the first and last words, you're left with approximately 100^10=10^20 possibilities, which will take forever to brute force.
It could have worked if you knew about 10 out of 12 words though.

[Thirdspace]

Theoretically, judging from the total number of words, someone can write a software to bruteforce the possible seeds based on the words from the image. 120~ish, that's a very small library compared to BIP39's or even Electrum's Word list.
Just a possibility, never mind.

I highly doubt that! Even if you assume you know the first and last words, you're left with approximately 100^10=10^20 possibilities, which will take forever to brute force.
It could have worked if you knew about 10 out of 12 words though.

not totally bruteforce but by narrowing down possible combinations using certain techniques
one I can think of (but didn't manage to do yet) by first finding all word-pair connections and building words tree,
then we can run a program to traverse each possible branches and check the derived address

for example, from some of my notes:
N1-shed rich piano ...
(piano, [velvet, nominee, erosion])
(velvet, [table, where])
(nominee, [erosion, castle*, food])
(table, [hollow])
(hollow, [share, train])
(share, [train, burst, industry])
and so on

then it will produce:
N1-shed rich piano velvet table hollow share train ...
N1-shed rich piano velvet table hollow share burst ...
N1-shed rich piano velvet table hollow share industry ...
N1-shed rich piano velvet table hollow train ...
N1-shed rich piano velvet where ...
N1-shed rich piano nominee erosion ...
N1-shed rich piano nominee castle* invalid, reaches starred word on 5th word
N1-shed rich piano nominee food ...
N1-shed rich piano erosion ...

you get the idea...  

[kursexpert]

From telegram group of quest:

[darkangel11]

From telegram group of quest:
https://preview.ibb.co/jbBzao/photo_2018_05_21_16_33_40.jpg

I have to say that it looks like a complete random mindfuck
When I looked at it first, I was certain that the arrows will point towards the next word and it has to be nearby, but it seems that second word can be half a picture from the first one and to get there you have to skip/ignore a bunch of words that are in the way. If you add them together you end up with a very large number of possibilities.  
For instance, the chain that OP showed as found has, for instance, words pizza and advance. Between these two there are at least 3 other words that had to be skipped.

[kursexpert]

I have to say that it looks like a complete random mindfuck

But quickly guessed.

[kursexpert]

This competition is over, but we are thinking other one for the beginning of the new year.
Did you like this contest?

[LoyceV]

Did you like this contest?

As I wrote before:

I love hunts like this!

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