pogo

Who this is

A handle in someone else's write-up. That's it. ZorenX, who wrote up the whole Arweave series, names pogo as the solver of Puzzle 01 and Puzzle 02, and that's the entire public trail the record can cite.

It's a good trail though. Puzzle 01 went up on May 22, 2019 and moved 33 hours later: a row of small riddles typed into the page, where the answer had to match the format the page wanted down to the space. Puzzle 02 went up two days after that and lasted less than twelve hours. Numbered scraps of paper, each one a different kind of problem, a square count, a chess position, a cryptarithm. Two puzzles, two days, 2250 AR. Whoever pogo is, they were having a good week.

What the record says and what it doesn't

Two facts, one per write-up. There's a pogo writing puzzle write-ups on Medium around the same years, and it's tempting. But a common four letter handle is not a link, and nothing on either side points at the other, so the record keeps them apart. If one ever does, it goes in as a profile with that page as its source.

The record

solver: party("pogo", {
  key: "pogo",
  about: "Handle credited with the first two Arweave puzzles, each solved within two days of going up.",
  facts: [
    fact("ZorenX's write-up of Puzzle 01 names pogo as the solver: …", "https://zorenx.medium.com/arweave-puzzle-series-puzzle-01-solved-59aa19a0ea2f"),
  ],
}),

arweave/weave2 carries the same key with its own fact, and the registry joins the two.