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this is insane, did you see the last resolution? I'm sure there's a plenty people crazy because this puzzle kkkkk
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Hi every one! I just join in the forum. I have a question: Did someone tried to find the origin of the painting? Who is the author of it? Or this is made by the creator of the puzzle??? Maybe we have to start from there(or at least me)
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Hi every one! I just join in the forum. I have a question: Did someone tried to find the origin of the painting? Who is the author of it? Or this is made by the creator of the puzzle??? Maybe we have to start from there(or at least me)
Author of the painting, and the creator of the puzzle is the same person: Marguerite Christine, the woman on the left in the picture: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FDNTFcC_WAAAPX6a.jpg&t=665&c=lk_RqUnVY7QPXg) There was a previous puzzle which was eventually solved: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.0This one still holds, IMHO because there was no community dedicated to solving it like the previous one. We were torn between half-functional forums and IRC channels, and it was no fun anymore like the first puzzle.
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November 19, 2017, 06:03:47 PM |
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Any updates on this one? I would love if someone not rich cracks it ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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November 21, 2017, 03:34:00 AM |
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All those weirdly capitalized words with a message to or by Satoshi.
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November 21, 2017, 03:44:39 AM |
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I saw there was an older low resolution picture of the chess board
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Based on the picture, I thought of looking up chess annotations as a private key. Others had suggested this based on the bird to find games with Bird's opening, but I didn't know enough about historical chess games for that to help. But then I thought the context of lots of the earlier clues were Alice in Wonderland based (follow the white rabbit, and the everything isn't what it is), and also on the picture there is the phoenix section that sort of looks like "through the looking glass." So then I remembered there was a chess game in the book through the looking glass. Well I researched it and the book actually is a chess game. You can read all about it here: http://www.chessmaniac.com/lewis-carroll-and-chess/So I used the annotation for Lewis Carol's solution on that page and it worked as a private key when I plugged it in blockchain.info, although the address it gave was empty and never used. Qh5d4Qc4Qc5d5Qf8d6Qc8d7Ne7Nxe7Nf5d8Qe8Qa6Qxe8 I don't know if the fact that it worked as a private key (length of characters?) is a good sign. I don't know enough about private keys... I tried a few modulations like exchanging the 7's for 3's (from the 347 clue earlier), but that did nothing. So anyways I think that's a far as I can contribute as I don't have any of the other skills I witnessed being used when reading the 32 page pdf of the previous puzzle and reading through all the pages on this thread. I really enjoyed the adventure, though, and I can't wait to hear how it gets solved. If this ends up helping, feel free to donate here: 1BhiQTjG4FbUPBsbQ5v7nHxzmhKt8c9ZKE
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November 21, 2017, 06:09:04 PM |
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So I used the annotation for Lewis Carol's solution on that page and it worked as a private key when I plugged it in blockchain.info, although the address it gave was empty and never used.
Qh5d4Qc4Qc5d5Qf8d6Qc8d7Ne7Nxe7Nf5d8Qe8Qa6Qxe8
I don't know if the fact that it worked as a private key (length of characters?) is a good sign. I don't know enough about private keys...
This is not a private key, I guarantee you that. Private key is just a number, to which is a network version byte added and then double SHA256 hashed + base58 encoded. These series of chess moves you quoted are not a number in any possible representation, and most certainly is not hash because for hash to have such uniform distribution to be meaningful chess game it would be impossible to find private key on which the hash is based. So you are on the wrong path, which doesn't mean there is not something in Alice in Wonderland association with the chess.
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November 23, 2017, 11:10:35 AM |
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the flames could indicate which hex character each tile is supposed to represent and the meanders could represent the order the hex characters are supposed to be read off the board.
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November 23, 2017, 10:34:34 PM |
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In case anyone wants to take crack at this, here is the raw data as Java arrays. I've checked these over many times but there's always a chance for error. No warranty provided.
// 0 = short // 1 = long String lengths[] = { "001101100111001101", // outer top, left to right "001111000101", // outer right, top to bottom "0011111011010001", // outer bottom, right to left "01101101", // outer left, bottom to top "0110110110100010110110110011", // inner top, left to right "110111110110110111110010", // inner right, top to bottom "100011100010110111110111110111110", // inner bottom, right to left "0111001101101", // inner left, bottom to top };
// 0 = yellow // 1 = red String outer_colors[] = { "010011101110001101", // outer top, left to right "011101000011", // outer right, top to bottom "0001111000110011", // outer bottom, right to left "01100101", // outer left, bottom to top "0001010100101101110010110000", // inner top, left to right "000010111011100011110000", // inner right, top to bottom "101011100001110001011111110101110", // inner bottom, right to left "0111101001100", // inner left, bottom to top };
// 0 = green // 1 = blue String inner_colors[] = { "000101010010110110", // outer top, left to right "100101111110", // outer right, top to bottom "0001101111111110", // outer bottom, right to left "10001001", // outer left, bottom to top "1000110100101011110000111011", // inner top, left to right "011111011001000010110100", // inner right, top to bottom "000011001101110001100010101001111", // inner bottom, right to left "0010000001110", // inner left, bottom to top };
As stated in an earlier post, the length bits when appended have a pattern in them: That pattern is 0?1?1? when the order is taken this way: inner top, inner right, inner bottom, inner left, outer left, outer bottom, outer right, outer top
01101101101000101101101100111101111101101101111100101000111000101101111101111101111100111001101101101101101000101101111100101000111100101100111001101100
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November 25, 2017, 12:16:32 AM |
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As stated in an earlier post, the length bits when appended have a pattern in them: That pattern is 0?1?1? when the order is taken this way: inner top, inner right, inner bottom, inner left, outer left, outer bottom, outer right, outer top
01101101101000101101101100111101111101101101111100101000111000101101111101111101111100111001101101101101101000101101111100101000111100101100111001101100
Those numbers in black look like a bunch of octal numbers to me. Edit: each one between two red zeros.
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November 25, 2017, 12:36:52 AM |
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As stated in an earlier post, the length bits when appended have a pattern in them: That pattern is 0?1?1? when the order is taken this way: inner top, inner right, inner bottom, inner left, outer left, outer bottom, outer right, outer top
01101101101000101101101100111101111101101101111100101000111000101101111101111101111100111001101101101101101000101101111100101000111100101100111001101100
When you delete repeating pattern (green and red numbers) you get: 101 5 100 4 001 1 101 5 011 3 111 7 101 5 111 7 000 0 010 2 001 1 111 7 111 7 111 7 010 2 101 5 101 5 100 4 001 1 111 7 000 0 011 3 001 1 010 2 101 5 0 That is: 5415375702177725541703125(0) in octal with optional zero at the end. Converted to decimal and hex: - (with zero) 208779943814743312839336 (decimal) 2C35FBC23FF56C3C32A8 (hex) - (without zero) 26097492976842914104917 (decimal) 586BF7847FEAD878655 (hex)
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November 25, 2017, 12:44:42 AM |
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Funny I see the prize is now a cool even 5 BTC as more was just added on Nov. 17, the reawakening of the thread may have had something to do with that or was it the other way around? https://blockchain.info/address/1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd
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November 25, 2017, 02:46:40 PM Last edit: November 25, 2017, 03:05:37 PM by Dr.Lecter |
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maybe Private Key is somewhere in here: d32Qa3Kd23Qb2Kd34Qd4Kc25Ne3Qxe36Qxe3Ne77Kb5Nd58Rf2Kd19Qd21d3Kx
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November 25, 2017, 04:36:13 PM |
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maybe Private Key is somewhere in here: d32Qa3Kd23Qb2Kd34Qd4Kc25Ne3Qxe36Qxe3Ne77Kb5Nd58Rf2Kd19Qd21d3Kx how you made it like that?
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November 26, 2017, 02:03:36 AM |
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What is with these new-ish accounts conversing with themselves on this thread. They sound like crypto markov chain chatbots.
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November 26, 2017, 02:36:39 AM |
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Bots used to be fun, now they just sound like disturbed people.
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November 26, 2017, 08:38:46 PM Last edit: November 26, 2017, 09:20:33 PM by maskoficarus |
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I'm probably way off on this, but the FO and LD found might actually be F0 and 1D. These might be positions of pieces on a chess board, if we assume non-standard position naming conventions (Usually, positions start from 1). If we reverse the 1D to D1, we get a position that's the same pattern away from F0 as a knight would be able to move.
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