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Author Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over  (Read 99533 times)
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June 22, 2014, 10:25:48 PM
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Portrait is a "shared start point."

Public Address: 1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra

Congratulations Gatekeeper!

THE END. Game Over.

 
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June 23, 2014, 04:29:50 AM
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Is this a puzzle? Is the key hidden in the image itself? I don't get it..

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June 23, 2014, 07:25:33 AM
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I need to save it ...

 what is the game name ?

http://www.introversion.co.uk/
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June 23, 2014, 07:44:30 AM
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PUZZLES! Cheesy
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June 23, 2014, 07:46:02 AM
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No formal name, but "Bitcoin Quest for Epic Loot," about sums it up. Also - twitter hastags: bitcoin, art, treasurehunt, hiddentreasure. And don't forget to check progress made on the reddit post, linked above. 5 additions have been made to the bounty -- the public key -- today. Game on.

cool nice game beautiful illustration/art ... Can I give an inspirational idea to the next artwork ?

what about something about Voynich manuscript ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

http://www.introversion.co.uk/
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June 23, 2014, 07:52:11 AM
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Who are they "Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson"
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June 23, 2014, 08:41:46 AM
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Who are they "Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson"

Ever heard of DarkWallet?
3D printed gun?
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June 23, 2014, 08:46:30 AM
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Who are they "Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson"

The rebellions of bitcoin. By the way, can someone post the game link ? Or this image is the game and the private key is in this image ?


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June 23, 2014, 08:49:14 AM
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It's in the image
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June 23, 2014, 09:49:51 AM
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Can someone write the 10 commandments of ..... clearly?

(I couldn't even make out the title)
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June 23, 2014, 09:51:31 AM
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Also OP, are we looking for a Base 58 private key or a mini-key?
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June 23, 2014, 10:00:44 AM
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Can someone write the 10 commandments of ..... clearly?

(I couldn't even make out the title)
-View source on all pages
-Think around corners
-Don't brute force
-Become accustomed to sleepless nights and unproductive days
-Learn the rudiments of cryptology
-Don't feed the trolls
-Assist in-game characters when required
-Don't seek what lies behind the Curtain
-Don't hoard Solves [information wants to be free]
-Assist the uninitiated [as I'm doing now]

Remember Aaron Swartz, a 26 year old computer scientist who died defending the free flow of information.
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June 23, 2014, 10:03:38 AM
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Who are they "Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson"

Google is your friend. And that picture is kinda freaky. Who drew it?

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Can someone write the 10 commandments of ..... clearly?

(I couldn't even make out the title)
-View source on all pages
-Think around corners
-Don't brute force
-Become accustomed to sleepless nights and unproductive days
-Learn the rudiments of cryptology
-Don't feed the trolls
-Assist in-game characters when required
-Don't seek what lies behind the Curtain
-Don't hoard Solves [information wants to be free]
-Assist the uninitiated [as I'm doing now]

Thanks bro, by the way what is the title?
The 10 commandments of?

ARGs - got it Smiley
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June 23, 2014, 10:07:23 AM
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Who are they "Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson"

Google is your friend. And that picture is kinda freaky. Who drew it?

coin_artist maybe?
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June 23, 2014, 11:25:53 AM
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IMHO Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson along with the all seeing eye refer to the dark wallet.

I even found a 12 word seed in the code.

If you take the part of the code in front of the address

Code:
S7ovY8tcakz3CmiuN2rh5
and convert it to poetry [1] you get
Code:
curl poetry crystal war bus possibly carve meant soar okay emotion joy

But the darkwallet that gets restored from that seed is empty.

I also tried several parts of the code and shortened them to get a 12 word seed. Ill just pasta the results here, none got me closer obviously

Code:
S7ovY8tcakz3CmiuN2rh5
curl poetry crystal war bus possibly carve meant soar okay emotion joy

OP4iDcIxbMy2nLi3
driver reach crowd vast tender flow seven stone breast math planet pass

1nmtHdEhirLbwb
praise throughout throughout bee daddy language coat keep grew dinner yeah sting


I think the important questions are:

- whats the meaning of the yellow dots
- whats the meaning of the blue dot



the green and red dots can be interpreted as binary data. But there are to many of them to make it a valid private key.

this is the data from the dots
Code:
101010000001
01001
010101
101010000101000100011111001
0110101011111
11
001
10
1
101010000

00001110111001000
1
110001010110001010011100001101100101100100110101010101
10111000
1011
0
000
100100
11011010101110001000010101
0001111
10000110
001
0
01010
11100011101010000110000100001111001001#11110
110000
0100000
10001100011


000
00111100011000101
0111010001100001000101010000010
0100010
01
11110100101010
00
1111
0101110110
1100
0001001
0010101101010001101

yellow = linebreak, blue = #, green = 1, red = 0

here is the raw data ignoring yellow and blue dots:

Code:
101010000001010010101011010100001010001000111110010110101011111110011011010100000000111011100100011100010101100010100111000011011001011001001101010101011011100010110000100100110110101011100010000101010001111100001100010010101110001110101000011000010000111100100111110110000010000010001100011000001111000110001010111010001100001000101010000010010001001111101001010100011110101110110110000010010010101101010001101
XOR
010101111110101101010100101011110101110111000001101001010100000001100100101011111111000100011011100011101010011101011000111100100110100110110010101010100100011101001111011011001001010100011101111010101110000011110011101101010001110001010111100111101111000011011000001001111101111101110011100111110000111001110101000101110011110111010101111101101110110000010110101011100001010001001001111101101101010010101110010

Did an XOR because we cant know whether red is 1 or green.

I also tried to generated several private keys from various 32 byte sections of these. Nope none are the solution.

Code:
last 32
5KKGuwcNtAYYPEYnZHi1yugSLpfLMp8UvUAs1N82ARHfJNWWpPJ
1PFRPPr7ZGPFmz4c7ecpDEVwMZiHqyYiqF
1st y:
010010101011010100001010001000111110010110101011111110011011010100000000111011100100011100010101100010100111000011011001011001001101010101011011100010110000100100110110101011100010000101010001111100001100010010101110001110101000011000010000111100100111110110000010000010001100011000001111000110001010111010001100001000101010000010010001001111101001010100011110101110110110000010010010101101010001101
5JPBsn9k8rate2qUFCaWBHe5jPMik52qF9MiT9r3yaaEzRjKv2Y
1NSF2A4N9ngmaT9tNyfUxp6v5RU6zMUQo7
XOR:
101101010100101011110101110111000001101001010100000001100100101011111111000100011011100011101010011101011000111100100110100110110010101010100100011101001111011011001001010100011101111010101110000011110011101101010001110001010111100111101111000011011000001001111101111101110011100111110000111001110101000101110011110111010101111101101110110000010110101011100001010001001001111101101101010010101110010
5KC8TpCTsVEK1oWnjmwHx8SwcvuqKuYCz7qxFLwLVq9RqNqhfkR
14GcpVs6pjAqhPBAjaLLzWVD3ekrF7tf9x

1010100000010100101010110101000010100010001111100101101010111111100110110101000000001110111001000111000101011000101001110000110110010110010011010101010110111000101100001001001101101010111000100001010100011111000011000100101011100011101010000110000100001111
5K6JyhbJ6LvLySS8CUKLdDJ8RP8e3sPp36idK73x8eHf8oJmuvu
13yyQ6mFSn59JgDQozD6FkitjT3dR7cgtk


after 32. y:

0010101110001110101000011000010000111100100111110110000010000010001100011000001111000110001010111010001100001000101010000010010001001111101001010100011110101110110110000010010010101101010001101
SeavBbLkcdTfA1hxN5rZk7NSB2H1vwvWDU7eXphc5
5chpXe7UDWvwv1H2BSN7kZr5Nxh1AfTdckLbBvaeS
no valid key :(

after addr:
0110101011111110011011010100000000111011100100011100010101100010100111000011011001011001001101010101011011100010110000100100110110101011100010000101010001111100001100010010101110001110101000011000010000111100100111110110000010000010001100011000001111000110
5JdQbWwGxKHQCpX1J6ZdDJ4bmacgoc1UnadcV5HLVfUMT45eZZk
1ECayjnPSe9Qf5Ps1xtMaBzTaNmqWoUaci

0000010100101010110101000010100010001111100101101010111111100110110101000000001110111001000111000101011000101001110000110110010110010011010101010110111000101100001001001101101010111000100001010100011111000011000100101011100011101010000110000100001111001001
5HrZaCf1GFdLKC7uCN37R7spkoWvgVNzrLrRRUPDcPBRU2qBGoM
164dNuibfyJmiM4Cu4ZeXEGBtDm6wgF87T

Also this representation:

Code:
1212122222213212213212121
31212122221212221222111112
21321121212111113113221312313
121212222332222111211122122231
311222121211222121221112222112112
212112212211212121211213
1211122231211323222312212
23112112121211122212222121213
2221111312222112322132321
2123111222111212122
2211222212222111122
122141111231122223
212222231222112
22113332223221111
22211222121321112122
21122221222121212
222212321222123
2131111212212
121232231111
21211121123
1122322212
2132212121
121212221121

1 = green, 2 = red, 3 = yellow, 4 = blue linebreak = linebreak


I assume the key is somewhere in the binary data OR there is a 12 word code in there somewhere that will restore a darkwallet with the private key.

Maybe yellow is red + green? idk.


One more dump of data

Code:
L1:
-> S7ovY8tcakz
1212 1 2222 221 3 2122 13 21212 1

L2:
-> 3CmiuN2rh5
3 121 2 1 222 2 12122 2 1 222111 112

L3:
-> 1HXUobw
21 3 21121 21211 11131 13221 31 2313

L4:
-> cB1qcG
12121 22 22332 22211121 1 122122 231

L5:
-> Drgh
311 2221212112221 21 2211122221 12112

L6:
-> uh42HDdJdJvr
2 12 1 1 2212 21 12 1212 121 1213

L7:
-> JUEraOP4iDc
12 11 12 2 2 31 211 32 3 222 3122 12

L8:
-> IxbMy2n
231 12 11 2 121211122212222 121 21 3

L9:
-> Li31
22211113 122 22112 322 1323 21

L10:
-> nmtH
21231 11222 1 1121212 2

L11:
-> dEh
22 112222122221 111 22

L12:
-> irLb
122141111 23 1122 223

L13:
-> wb5yufe
2 12222 23 12 2 2112

L14:
-> 3TCSv
2211 3 33222 3 2211 1 1

L15:
-> jwo
222 11222121 3211 121 22

L16:
-> AUrk9
2 11222 212 2 21212 1 2

L17:
-> FzRe7a
222 2 123 21 222 1 23

L18:
-> eJ6
21 3111 1 2 12212

L19:
-> 2YT
12123 2 2311 1 1

L20:
-> O6A
21 211 12 1123

L21:
-> BDi
1 122 322212

L22:
-> Ft
2132 2 121 21

L23:
->
121212 221121

LX refers to line X. After -> is the "text" of that line, below are the colors coded with:
Code:
green = 1
red = 2
yellow = 3
blue = 4

the spaces represent a break between the colored dots.

Row 11 from the left has only red dots. Maybe thats a hint?


[1] http://brainwallet.org/#converter
[ ] link to the address because some are lazy:
https://blockchain.info/address/1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra



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Im not really here, its just your imagination.
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June 23, 2014, 12:13:14 PM
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@shorena  I think we should be looking for a key-phrase to outguess the image Wink

So far I have been unsuccessful  Embarrassed

EDIT: Also the number of characters between one 5 and the other are exactly 51, but none of the combinations work as a private key  Undecided
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June 23, 2014, 01:13:50 PM
Last edit: June 23, 2014, 01:28:21 PM by S4VV4S
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Guys, I think the dots is morse code.

Green for dash
Red for dot

EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?
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June 23, 2014, 02:36:33 PM
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Guys, I think the dots is morse code.

Green for dash
Red for dot

EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?


I dont think so, the codes are to long (>5) and what would yellow and blue be?


The blue dot is on 12,6 btw

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June 23, 2014, 02:48:03 PM
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Guys, I think the dots is morse code.

Green for dash
Red for dot

EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?


I dont think so, the codes are to long (>5) and what would yellow and blue be?


The blue dot is on 12,6 btw

I think that's it.
We are looking for a key-word or phrase to outguess the data out of the image.

It could be chapter 12, verse 6?Huh?

From where don't know yet.....
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