IDcollectionsQuizchain2

quizchain2/12

Solved on 2019-05-21 after 18h 18m, key published. 0.007 BTC on Bitcoin.

Story

What the post asked, what the answer turned out to be, and what the chain says happened. The record below holds the data.

Keeping a secret

Same day, May 20. The author wants an easier block after a hard run, and the post says exactly how this one works. Four words, three of them in brackets. Swap the three for one word, then turn the two words into one solution.

The question: (intentionally keeping secret) ring. The TOMI field is three words, "the last one of them is anagram". Not "an anagram". Just "anagram", and the author insisted on that.

The hints came fast and furious, the author's own words. The bracket is "one of the meanings of the word". The word is "neither very common nor very unusual". The solution is an anagram of the other two TOMI words, and ring is the second of them.

The capital that wasn't

Then u/mapl3sn0w asked about capitalization. Fair question. The answer: TOMI all lower case, solution with the first letter only in upper case, "like this example: Upper".

Wrong. The secret keeper is coy, and coy ring rearranges to grycoin. Lower case. The claim confirmed at 06:46:58 UTC on May 21. A while later u/Crypto_Rachel posted the string grycoin TOMI coy ring anagram, the address and the key. "I thought you said the solution was upper :(" Ouch.

The author called it the first mistake of the second run. A mistake means a 77 mBTC block, and that's block 14. The record keeps the printed key and the hash of the lower case string, and the chain agrees with both.

Was coy fair for "intentionally keeping secret"? u/silver_anth said no, it's not the first definition Google gives. u/Quantris said looking up the first Google hit would be lame anyway. Both have a point.

Moving out

This is the last block posted on r/bitcoinpuzzles. Block 13 went up on r/Grycoin, and one player found out the hard way. "So I subscribed to the wrong community."

IDquizchain2/1212 / 202019-05-20 → 2019-05-21
Puzzle / quizchain2

12

bitcoinp2pkh solved

Record

bitcoinPuzzle({
  address: p2pkh("187Q5XNNezey…tWvwyqZ6", "4dfea40b2e15…70e73d55"),
  status: Status.Solved,
  key: wif("KzWPBGPJsFFD…hSpkmrXT").entropy("b08d3726d3fd…95be2658", source("https://www.…lock_12/")),
})
Prize
0.007 BTC
Key material
wif
Verification
verified
Solved
2019-05-21 · 18h 18m
tx 2
Trail
Explorerblockstream.info
Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/br2rys/7_mbtc_quizchain2_block_12
Tryquizchain2/12 in the playground
Address
187Q5XNNezeyBYgwY8gL2swXUWtWvwyqZ6

hash160 4dfea40b2e155b0c5aa593110305897070e73d55

Balance
asking the explorer

Key

public key · compressed
0342c1f5fffae5de54bd0e823cff65f7b193851f4428e685e43355d5f9c57ef559
WIF
KzWPBGPJsFFDXGRawczb5XqsMauPTXzpJ5YrXkTRNfwchSpkmrXT
entropy hash
b08d3726d3fdd5804cd40ea395be2658

Transactions

  1. funding2019-05-200.007 BTCb7939af53e…6545e4
  2. claim2019-05-210.00655072 BTC15ec49c6b9…20160a

Hints

  1. undated

    officialThe question uses four words, with three of them in brackets. That means those three are supposed to be replaced by one word and then the resulting two words are supposed to be transformed into a one word solution.

  2. undated

    officialQuestion: (intentionally keeping secret) ring

    Published answer

    Solution: The three words in brackets are one of the meanings for the word "coy" I found online. I thought that was a nice match for a puzzle. The words "coy ring" resolve as an anagram to Grycoin. So solution was Grycoin, TOMI field was coy ring anagram.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/br2rys/7_mbtc_quizchain2_block_12

  3. undated

    officialFormat: [solution] TOMI [TOMI]

    Published answer

    grycoin TOMI coy ring anagram

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/br2rys/comment/eoasr0u

  4. undated

    officialTOMI field is three words, the last one of them is anagram.

  5. undated

    officialFirst three digits of MD5 hash are b08.

  6. undated

    officialFirst digit of solution only MD5 hash is 0.

  7. undated

    officialFirst digit of TOMI field only MD5 hash is 3.

  8. undated

    officialAll three words in TOMI field are all lower case, no upper case letter in TOMI field. One word solution has first letter only in upper case, like this example: Upper.

    Published answer

    As noted in comments, solution was grycoin, not Grycoin. First mistake of this round.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/br2rys/7_mbtc_quizchain2_block_12

  9. undated

    officialIt is one of the meanings of the word.

  10. undated

    officialNeither very common nor very unusual.

  11. undated

    officialThe last TOMI word is not "an anagram" it is "anagram".

  12. undated

    officialSolution word is anagram of the other two TOMI words combined...

  13. undated

    officialIt is the second of three words in the TOMI field.