The Steemit Crypto Challenge #17 - Winner Announcement

in steemitcryptochallenge •  7 years ago 


The 17th Steemit Crypto Challenge is over and we are happy to announce the winner:

Congratulations @kingmotan!

You followed your intuition and stayed on the right track. Solving the puzzle you saved your reward, 100 Steem goes to you.


Solution


Here is a breakthrough, showing step by step what you had to do in order to solve the crypto-puzzle.
The two given hints were:


and
You can see me on the top
https://defuse.ca/b/rn1J11so6P9DJpGhNCd54n

User @steem.engine knew exactly well what to do! He saw that the first image contains a morse code and successfully decrypted it. The Steemians then had a bunch of random numbers and didn't know what to do. @Steem.engine figured out these have to be coordinates! The problem was the coordinates were above 90° which made no sense. He went deeper and found out the coordinates were also encrypted (ROT 18). The solution was the password for the defuse file.

The string led to a YouTube video

Now the real fun began. For more than a day the Steemians struggled to find out what the second hint meant. They thought about almost everything! Through some religious topics to drugs and more. The answer however was just in front of them. They saw the answer and even thought about it but didn't mention it until one Steemian said the right words.


@kingmotan saw the connections others didn't and managed to solve the last part of the puzzle.


Great work and congratulations to the winner and all who participated. @engine you get 10 Steem for the first hint! Don't miss the next Steemit Crypto Challenge and be prepared.
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Very, very tricky.

Sounds exciting - more of these activities we do the more productively engaged Steemians will be. Thanks to the organizers!

I am so bad at these but I'll keep an eye of for the next. good luck everyone

Congratulations to the winner

Congratulations

I missed this. Looking out for the next.

Don't miss it

:( i always miss your challenge ..boo

same

Lol it was a blast!! Thank you for the congrats , guys.
It took hard work from everyone and I went to bed that night thinking the video was the answer. When I woke up the next morning I found the guys in the chat, together with Tim trying to decipher that video .
Oh, I played that song for at least 20 times, trying to understand every lyric .
I also searched for the song's lyrics and read them a few times trying to find a key . He said it was under our eyes, so I started reading ALL the comments , trying to find a key , something that Tim might have posted but nothing.
Another hour passed and I thought ... it might just be the something to do with that Top comment since the hint was "you can see me on the top "
Oh and I played for about 30 mins on this site: http://www.allscrabblewords.com/word-description/decipher , trying to find the hint encrypted in the hint
It was hella fun (because I won ) and I look forward to the next one
Cheers guys

Haha this is so cool. Congrats to the winner !

Thanks trendo!

Thank you !

very cool

Congrats to the winners. I am an idiot when it comes to these challenges....

gr8 when will be the next challenge plz do inform... ☺☺

How to join?

Wait for the next announcement and check the last challenges to know how it works

Wow! It is very cool!
You're doing fine!
Congratulations @kingmotan!

Thank you , Kristina, I love your drawings

Great post, Upvoted and followed.

Hi I'm new to steem! I therefore missed the challenge but I hope to participate in the next! I love the principle and congratulations to the winner!

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Congratulations, lucky winner!

Damn, he had to solve a lot to get there.

Now this is an awesome challenge. Following for future challenges and Resteeming to help spread the word!

thanks great information

@timsaid...you are always onpoint! this is nice

@timsaid I was so sure that I had the correct answer! So "stay frosty don't get lost in time", the bold text "image look closer" weren't tips then? What a coincidence that the first facebook profile was named "time to eat music" and that it has a profile picture with Charlie cC(& frosty) written on the LP in small letters. lol

Damn! Many coincidences. But nice try

Yes lol.

congratulation for a winner. hop to participate in thr next challenge :)

HODOR...

Wow!!

WOOT! grats!

Yes! Congratulations to all

Unfortunately I missed this one! Looking forward to the next

very helpful @muhammadirfan

I find it interesting the issue of crypto steemit continues to inform us fellow

Looking forward to the next one. I have posted a lot about Cicada 3301 at the beginning of the year.

very good

Holy crap, I need to participate in the next challenge, these brain teasers always excite me!

Awesome, dont you just love Steemit. I was a avid toutuber but since the youtube fiasco, i lost the passion to create, but now out of the darkness came light by the name of Steemit.

Nicee

Please make the puzzles so that artists can also decode it.

I was inspired by this Crytpo Challenge to start a contest of my own. I think those who enjoy participating in the Crypto Challenge may also be interested in the Weekly Trivia Contest that I've started. 100% of the STEEM generated by the post is paid out, and I've seeded the first week with 40 SBD. If anyone is interested, please check it out:
https://steemit.com/trivia/@misko/weekly-trivia-contest-1

Wow.. It's great fun I think. I missed it. But I am going to participate from next challenge.

Good post

nice

I missed this game! Are there any new game?

Nice one genius

everybody is getting high and You can see me on the top !

Cheers Mate

STeemOn

congratulations to the winner and the all participants

good post

for you guys hehe
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i couldn't figure the first hint lol

Congrats @kingmotan good job indeed. Hopefully , next time will be my turn . Thanks to @timsaid for organising this

Thank you. Be careful to follow that feed . Refresh refresh .
I remember when I saw Tim posting the challenge after 52 seconds. I thought to myself ... EZ I GOT THIS. ..... 1 day later I was still listening to the damn youtube song lool

Welcome, I agree.

Congrats to all the winners!

It seems like there are a few benefits as a member being with steemit. Congratulations to the winner this time around. Hoping to see the next promotion feeder.

Congrats

Oh no! I missed it. It;s cool.

Wat is this puzzle game how to play

Congratulations @timsaid!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following categories:

  • Upvotes - Ranked 10 with 391 upvotes
  • Pending payout - Ranked 4 with $ 432,56

I dont understand any of it LOL

I didn't either the first few times, but eventually you learn the methods to find answers to the clues - even if they don't always get you to the right place. I got close this time around, but wandered off down the wrong path at the end.

LOL, this contest is between CIA and normal people like me! This is unfair!!!

congrats for the winner :)

Nice your post...:-)

Credit to you for putting this stuff together! Must be as hard as it is working it out :)

Congrats to @kingmotan! That was a tough one Tim, it was hard to figure out where the end of the trail was. I am happy though, it was the furthest I have gotten so far in your challenges. Twisted fun. Looking forward to the next.

Thank you! See you at the next one

Seems fun and challenging, gotta keep alert for riddle and challenge like this!

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Aghh this one gave me a slepless night lol. Can't wait for the next one, getting addicted on your challenges bro 😂.

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Smart! gratz to the winner!

Thank you, RawPride

Excellent !

good post

This is awesome how you guys find creative ways to actively engage with your followers as well as give back. Continue doing great deeds and shine your positive light across the platform

My mind can't comprehend..congrats!

Congrats to the lucky winner, and thanks so much for the update

Gracias!

Nice post friend

How do i always miss these crypto challenges!? :(

Congrats to the winner!

Set an alarm :P

How do i do that? Steemit alarm?
Are you posting crypto challenges only on Thursday?

Tim is a machine - he operates like fine Swiss clockwork. :-)

Thank you !! Keep your eyes on the feed or Bookmark this page : https://steemit.com/@timsaid

Good to have great men on board...we are really grateful for the good post...you are always followed

When is the next round? I'm so excited for this

new steemer here , gl all , @clumsysilverdad

Thank you see you in the next one

congrats to @kingmotan. I will join to solve the next crypto challenge @timsaid

Can't wait to see you!

Thank you sir!

Congratulations @kingmotan

Wow verry cooll friend..I am so bad at these but I'll keep an eye of for the next and good luck everyone

Wow some people are just brilliant! I couldn't solve something like this in a 5 years lol

Nice post.
Hlo,I'm new to this steemit, and I have a lot to learn about steemit, maybe in this steemit a lot of it makes a parable.
I hope you can also help me, and I have followed you thank you...

Wow this looks awesome,thank you for sharing and posting this.

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@kingmotan Congrats. :)