[Winner & Answer] Mini Crypto Challenge #2 - Congratulations, @hendrikcrause!

Wow, this time it took only two hours for my challenge to be solved! I might have to make them a little bit harder after all. This time it was @hendrikcrause who singlehandedly put together all the pieces and figured out the final answer to Mini Crypto Challenge #2.

Well done, and congratulations! 🎉

Last week's winner @howtostartablog made a good effort as well, thanks for playing again!

The challenge

The challenge was:

Find the emoji that should take the place of ?.

🔥 + 💧 + 🌎 + 💨 + = 9116

👁 + 👂 + 👅 + 👃 + 👈 + 😵 = 7404

🤴 = 5492

? * 12 = 4746

The Hints were:
🥃🐳🐺.🇮🇳🎤🍩🐝.🌽🐙🥛

The solution

The three sets of emoji referred to three movies, being The Fifth Element (there was no emoji that could represent Leeloo - who is said to be the fifth element in the movie, so I cheated and used an image instead), The Sixth Sense and The Prince, each movies starring Bruce Willis.

The hint was www.imdb.com (spelled out by the first letter of each emoji in the hint), which if you look at the URL of each movie would reveal the numbers associated with the groups of emoji's (www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404 for The Sixth Sense, and so on).

The answer therefor would be a movie starring Bruce Willis, of which the url ended with 4746. The only matching movie was Twelve Monkeys. In the statement ? * 12 = 4746 this meant the ? was to be replaced with a monkey emoji (I would have counted any of the five possible options correct)

The rewards

To prevent myself from going broke fast I made the prize pool a little smaller. Here's the breakdown

• $10 for the winner
• $2 each for two clues that I decided to reward before posting. These clues were:
  -- www.imdb.com, as spelled out by the emoji in the hint
  -- Bruce Willis, the common denominator between the three movies in the challenge (and the lead actor in the movie that formed the answer).

@hendrikcrause was the first one to decode the www.imdb.com hint as well as the winner, so he'll receive a total of $12. Bruce Willis was never mentioned, so I've decided to give the $2 reward for that hint to @howtostartablog instead for figuring out The Sixth Sense.

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Thanks for playing everyone, and stay tuned for Mini Crypto Challenge #3, which I hope to post on Thursday. It will involve punk bands, so be prepared 🤘