PXC: Silver Puzzle Cards-Responses

[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One

SpartanCavie@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:21:51 +0000

We did not. Check the podcast above for updates, or this new video recently created by fan of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wG5SoaiSgU

[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One

SpartanCavie@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 01:23:25 +0000

Did we ever solve this one?

[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One

SpartanCavie@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:35:42 +0000

the above link no longer works for me, but I do now find the podcast at a new URL: https://soundcloud.com/listentothispodcast/findsatoshi

[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One

SpartanCavie@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 08:37:58 +0000

Hey everybody. Been a while, hasn't it? Over 10 years. I stumbled across Find Satoshi a few months ago by sheer chance, or call it luck. Like many of you, I found myself completely immersed by it, but a little too late to participate. So instead, I made a podcast episode about it.

I read through every one of your posts here as part of my research, along with interviewing Laura Hall (of findsatoshi.wordpress.com) and Adrian Hon, the creator of the game.

If you wanna go on a trip down memory lane, have a listen.

https://soundcloud.com/listen-to-this-244929090/findsatoshi

Will be on iTunes before too long, as well.

Enjoy, and happy hunting.

I just came here to post this, as I'm partway through listening to it after seeing it on Adrian Hon's twitter feed. Really enjoying listening to it and a definite trip down memory lane.

[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One

SpartanCavie@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:39:05 +0000

Hey everybody. Been a while, hasn't it? Over 10 years. I stumbled across Find Satoshi a few months ago by sheer chance, or call it luck. Like many of you, I found myself completely immersed by it, but a little too late to participate. So instead, I made a podcast episode about it.

I read through every one of your posts here as part of my research, along with interviewing Laura Hall (of findsatoshi.wordpress.com) and Adrian Hon, the creator of the game.

If you wanna go on a trip down memory lane, have a listen.

https://soundcloud.com/listen-to-this-244929090/findsatoshi

Will be on iTunes before too long, as well.

Enjoy, and happy hunting.

[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One

SpartanCavie@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:15:10 +0000

I bet the answer is a Bitcoin address. Satoshi claimed he was working on BTC since 2007, BUT with how complete the 0.1 code release was, it's speculated that he was working on it for much much longer... and the fact that he wrote using British English means he could have been in contact with Mind Candy if that's where he lived at the time.

Maybe Mind Candy knew about Bitcoin before anyone else? Anyone know any employees that used to work there?

[Puzzle] Silver #238 Riemann

Guest@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:39:46 +0000

1020030004000050000060000007 factored =
11*101*103*140411*5130571*12373564559

while both 127 and 9721 are primes...
looks like apples and oranges

but I'm not bored enough to proceed ;)

[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One

SpartanCavie@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:46:38 +0000

The other day Tarim noticed Bitcoin - an interesting project in its own right. The founder/author is a mysterious character by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto where it says:

He has said in a p2p foundation profile that he is from Japan. Beyond that, not much is known about him. He has been working on Bitcoin since 2007

Ah well, guess 2007 isn't early enough - perhaps he took his name from Billion To One?

[PUZZLE] #251 - Silver - The Thirteenth Labour - READ POST#1

badbarry@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:30:50 +0000

... I know what the answer to the card is (you can work it out from paraboloid13's clues) ...

That's distressing. I thought the hints would lead to a key. Must be getting old. How about a hint for the hints, or something about the nature of the answer - number, word, phrase, song lyrics??

Fran

As I understand it, and I may well be wrong, you couldn't really give any hints for the key. The key should just be a random collection of 8 letters, numbers and punctuation (e.g. 3rY,w7:X), and so it could only be found by trying every single combination of available characters one by one - a task that could take many years of brute force, and essentially how the card was supposed to be solved. Paraboloid13 must have managed do this with all the computing power available to him/her.

Presumably (speculating here), the key decodes the numbers to some text that poses a question.

As for the actual answer to the card,

it is one word

[PUZZLE] #251 - Silver - The Thirteenth Labour - READ POST#1

badbarry@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:32:15 +0000

... I know what the answer to the card is (you can work it out from paraboloid13's clues) ...

That's distressing. I thought the hints would lead to a key. Must be getting old. How about a hint for the hints, or something about the nature of the answer - number, word, phrase, song lyrics??

Fran

[PUZZLE] #251 - Silver - The Thirteenth Labour - READ POST#1

badbarry@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:31:16 +0000

Anybody know if the 'Cracking Machine' at www.kallisti.co.uk/pxc/ still works? You can type things in and get a failure message. I guess you'd have to know the key to find out whether it's really operational. Apparently there are at least 2 people who know it.

I would like to see the solution to this one. If anyone is willing to just post the key, or explain exactly how to derive it, that would be enough fun. I got some ideas from Paraboloid13's hints, but I don't want to devote another 2 or 3 years of my life to trial and error.

Fran

Not really sure but I think you need to brute force the key, as we tried all those years ago. I know what the answer to the card is (you can work it out from paraboloid13's clues), but that isn't the key to decoding what the text says, so think only paraboloid13 him/herself can tell us that at the moment, unless you can brute force it yourself!

[PUZZLE] #251 - Silver - The Thirteenth Labour - READ POST#1

badbarry@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:26:10 +0000

Anybody know if the 'Cracking Machine' at www.kallisti.co.uk/pxc/ still works? You can type things in and get a failure message. I guess you'd have to know the key to find out whether it's really operational. Apparently there are at least 2 people who know it.

I would like to see the solution to this one. If anyone is willing to just post the key, or explain exactly how to derive it, that would be enough fun. I got some ideas from Paraboloid13's hints, but I don't want to devote another 2 or 3 years of my life to trial and error.

Fran

[Puzzle] #243 Silver - Shuffled Part 2 (Read 1st Post!)

FranG@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:07:00 +0000

You can use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to access:

cif.rochester.edu/~la002k/solitaire.htm#fields

Fran

[Puzzle] #243 Silver - Shuffled Part 2 (Read 1st Post!)

FranG@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:33:51 +0000

Are there any working programmes for trying passcodes in?
They all seem to be defunct :(

#225 - Silver - [IVY SET] - Broadside

Guest@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:55:42 +0000

Thanks!
We need to bring back Perplexorum it was great!
:D