Game with hidden Bitcoin

[dkbit98]

Who Stole My Beard is a retro game that should be released on August 2nd 2021, it has hidden real Bitcoin inside and first player who solves the puzzle will get the prize, but I can't find exact information of exact amount of BTC.

There are 12 virtual scraps of paper in game and each of them is containing a single word, finding all worlds will give you seed phrase that you can import in Electrum wallet and claim your coins.

Game is developed by Cleardot Games aka Neil Collier from California, and you can find it on Steam store:


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141270/Who_Stole_My_Beard/

Your beard has been stolen! You and your loyal dog Leo must investigate the people and places of Beardsville to solve the crime. Uncover conspiracies, find new beards, and don't forget to pick up the groceries in this charming town of bearded intrigue.

About:
Set in the town of Beardsville, where the law requires every citizen to have a beard, you wake up one morning to the horror of all horrors...someone has stolen your beard! You and your loyal dog Leo must uncover the truth of this dastardly crime. Find new beards, help the community, look for clues, and discover a conspiracy deep in the heart of Beardsville. Can you solve the crime before the annual Beard Festival?

You can also read the reddit post by author peelman1978: claiming he wants to raise awareness of Biotcoin:

Anything to raise awareness of Bitcoin (and promote my passion project)...

Watch Official Trailer and good luck hunting that Bitcoin:
https://youtu.be/iklmYE4Efds

[aysg76]

Now this is something nice and spreading awareness in and most entertaining way like you just become detective of town and looking for clues which are not only in-game clues to open some mystery door but will act as seed phrase and you can import it to Electrum to enjoy our free bitcoins.I personally find it very good move like you are John Wick with your loyal dog picking up the papers and finding clues and collecting groceries so that you could earn btc.I am also interested to find out the rewards and keen to know the gameplay like

1) Will only the first one will be awarded with the funds associated or there would be group hunt at one time and whoever wins that round will be having seed phrase which can be imported to wallet

2)What will be the amount of funds that can be withdrawn to our Electrum Wallet if we found all the papers at first.

Waiting for official launch of the game.

[mk4]

You can also read the reddit post by author peelman1978: claiming he wants to raise awareness of Biotcoin:

Anything to raise awareness of Bitcoin (and promote my passion project)...

Not only is it a great creative way to raise awareness of Bitcoin, the marketing guy in me also really appreciates the fact that it's a really smart way to get publicity to the game as well! It seems to be the studio's first ever game, so there's a decent chance that this game wouldn't get any early traction if it weren't for this clever marketing gimmick.

[Luzin]

You also need to know the order of each word

Will this be like a Seed key in a wallet?
12 words do I have to use permutations in math.
Wow of course this is difficult, maybe almost impossible if there is a limit to the number of errors.

[Obito]

Pretty sure that the person who will get this isn't a person but probably a team of people because I feel like the people who created this game isn't going to make it an easy game unless the bitcoin contained within the game as a reward isn't a lot. I just hope that the game would last for a year before it gets solved or better yet even if after it's solved, there's should be some playability in it like those New Game+.

[mk4]

also need to know the order of each word

Anyone knows how long will it roughly take to be able to brute force all the order combinations of 12 words?

12! = 479,001,600 combinations or did my brain lag?

[Ucy]

Interesting.
 Well, I hope something like that is done in a manner that creates solutions to problems that are useful in real world... in solving crimes for example, so people who would spend lots of their time solving the problem but fail to win can learn something useful from the game.

[Zilon]

This is the epic of it what a brilliant awareness package for Bitcoin but I'm certain the puzzle will be brain teasing and time demanding but the value of Bitcoin isn't revealed do have any idea of how much worth of bitcoin is involved.

[Arydo]

And creator is working to accept bitcoin as a payment for his game too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/oq6lfo/my_solo_developed_indie_game_has_hidden_bitcoin/h6lzjny

Great idea, I hope it's fun and challenging to solve the puzzles.

What do you think about pushing this idea to promote bitcoin a bit further with project like this, to spread % of profits (if ever will be profitable) with gamers with future updates. Ofc for the sake of fun and awareness, not to strip creators from profits.

[BlackHatCoiner]

I don't like it.

I have a past with Bitcoin hunts and that possibly makes me want to say this, but any game that contains a money prize won't be enjoyed. This is guaranteed. You'll start playing the game for fun and before you know it, you'll have spent thousands of hours trying to find the damn answer for the correct mnemonic.

Some may even try to brute force after a certain level. They'll find it impossible if they're not aware of more than three words. A mania will prevail of who'll stand lucky to get the money.

[passwordnow]

IIRC, there's sort of the same type of puzzle that has been made before but if it's made in the form of a game, it's going to make the hunt more exciting. This is like the next-gen of play to earn that we've seen lately with the NFTs but it's entirely different from that because you have to find the exact words and its order for the gamer to win the hidden btc on it.

I haven't read the other threads linked on this thread but maybe there has to be the answer for this question there.

1) Will only the first one will be awarded with the funds associated or there would be group hunt at one time and whoever wins that round will be having seed phrase which can be imported to wallet

I think it will make the game more exciting if they'll keep putting those recovery words with little amount and make the hunting continue to attract more players. And in that cycle, maybe this game will gain attention it's like hunting bitcoin daily for the daily rewards.

[Husires]

A creative way to promote the game while adding a little fun to the users, the problem is that the public key is not published publicly so that we can see who won the contest.
I will try my luck and play and it is nice to see that he will accept Bitcoin for the game which might generate a good amount of money.
I didn't see in the promo that he accepts Bitcoin payments.

[Smartvirus]

Yeah, very creative indeed and it not only promotes bitcoin but then, the game itself. It tends to ensure the game is being downloaded and played more often as, you never can really tell or perhaps its as at now kind of thing, the amount of bitcoin that is hidden in the game. Again, it spreads the knowledge of a private key and seed  phrase system, being hidden in the game, an advantage for the nitcoined learned individuals but then, a call for research by newbies who hopes to get on the fun train. I  once did come across a similar style of hiding treasures in there work on this forum this one was done in a book as I recall it and its a great idea.

[rhomelmabini]

Seems a nice puzzle to me since the words are being seek not some private keys. Been seeing some puzzle game where most of them are into private key and that seems too complicated but I guess this should be a normal one for average minds, just my thought. Wonder how many days will it take and I like the game part and loving that it's in classic mode type of game.

@dkbit98 you spelled it "Bitcoin", please correct the typographical error.

[Luzin]

It's not impossible (but still very difficult) if you have additional information such as generated address, derivation path and position of few words. There are few tools which can do it such as https://github.com/PawelGorny/lostword. But i expect the developer also show the position (or at least hint of the position).

This is very much, maybe a hacker alone is difficult. (possible). For me a person who does not understand may seem impossible. But it seems worth a try. I expect lots of other considerations from this game dev. But if the prize offered is large maybe it's worth it. Perhaps the effect will be that many participants are not interested.

[kaya11]

Who Stole My Beard is a retro game that should be released on August 2nd 2021, it has hidden real Bitcoin inside and first player who solves the puzzle will get the prize, but I can't find exact information of exact amount of BTC.

There are 12 virtual scraps of paper in game and each of them is containing a single word, finding all worlds will give you seed phrase that you can import in Electrum wallet and claim your coins.

Game is developed by Cleardot Games aka Neil Collier from California, and you can find it on Steam store:


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141270/Who_Stole_My_Beard/

Your beard has been stolen! You and your loyal dog Leo must investigate the people and places of Beardsville to solve the crime. Uncover conspiracies, find new beards, and don't forget to pick up the groceries in this charming town of bearded intrigue.

About:
Set in the town of Beardsville, where the law requires every citizen to have a beard, you wake up one morning to the horror of all horrors...someone has stolen your beard! You and your loyal dog Leo must uncover the truth of this dastardly crime. Find new beards, help the community, look for clues, and discover a conspiracy deep in the heart of Beardsville. Can you solve the crime before the annual Beard Festival?

You can also read the reddit post by author peelman1978: claiming he wants to raise awareness of Biotcoin:

Anything to raise awareness of Bitcoin (and promote my passion project)...

Watch Official Trailer and good luck hunting that Bitcoin:
https://youtu.be/iklmYE4Efds

It's nice to see retro games coming back to life and aside from that the concept of Bitcoin being on it is awesome. Awareness is important as day by day it can help the community grow. Also the old generations are somehow stuck on playing old games rather than the latest videos out there.
The Beard concept also is funny and somewhat unique, a game that is simple yet somehow weird will surely attract nerdy and the old folks.

[dkbit98]

Not only is it a great creative way to raise awareness of Bitcoin, the marketing guy in me also really appreciates the fact that it's a really smart way to get publicity to the game as well! It seems to be the studio's first ever game, so there's a decent chance that this game wouldn't get any early traction if it weren't for this clever marketing gimmick.

I tend to agree with you but creator of this game seems really impressed with Bitcoin and technology behind it, so it's a win win situation.

You also need to know the order of each word

Order will probably be connected with leveling up in game, I don't believe he would create it so hard with random mixing of words, unless he is hiding hundreds or thousands of Bitcoins inside, and I doubt that.

[zanezane]

A creative way to promote the game while adding a little fun to the users, the problem is that the public key is not published publicly so that we can see who won the contest.
I will try my luck and play and it is nice to see that he will accept Bitcoin for the game which might generate a good amount of money.
I didn't see in the promo that he accepts Bitcoin payments.

It's probably a difficult puzzle that they have because if I was the developer, I would want more players to join in the fun and have more users in my game so I can have more engagement and more engagement means more money. I think it will be bad to display the public address because what if the prices are a big, someone can probably track down the winner so they can steal the bitcoin from them.

[buwaytress]

Going to try give it some love a bit later, but yeah, what a great way to promote your upcoming studio! I don't really know these days if gamers are up for puzzle solving, but a quick reminder from all those app ads telling me download puzzles games suggests it ain't dead.

You know the guy OP or just sharing?

[SFR10]

but I can't find exact information of exact amount of BTC.

Seeing that Neil didn't disclose it, I'm guessing it has to be an insignificant amount ^{[I could be wrong]}. Does anybody know how much he'll be charging for this game?

1) Will only the first one will be awarded with the funds associated or there would be group hunt at one time and whoever wins that round will be having seed phrase which can be imported to wallet

I believe there will be only a "single" winner.

But i have concern of cheating through data mining and decompiler, i hope the developer did something to prevent such cheating.

Someone else also "commented" about that but he ignored it ^{[perhaps it doesn't come with an anti-cheating mechanism]}.

You also need to know the order of each word

But i expect the developer also show the position (or at least hint of the position).

He will but I have a strong feeling someone else is going to figure it out before he does it:

• There will be clues pushed out every week or so...