Shibuya Crossing

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Since i've seen a few people ask -- here's how @rskagy.eth , @carc.eth , and I were able to solve the Shibuya puzzle so quickly (all scripts used will be published below) 🧵

Here are the scripts used for those curious: https://github.com/gtspencer/shibuya

explanations below 👇

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game dev at Nifty Island | creative technologist

First things first, we needed the public key of the wallet.  Knowing it held a Gaia and 100k degen, i wrote a script to grab all Gaia holders, and check their degen balance.  Low and behold, a few wallets matched, but only 1 had the rest of the NFTs.  So we knew the wallet we were hunting for.

We then moved onto finding the first 12 words in the original image.  However we were unsure about a few so we generated alternatives:
1. black -> basket -> brisk
2. reason -> real -> ready

I wrote a quick and dirty phrase "miner" to try & brute force the last 4 words, though I knew this highly unlikely, as there were 1.75e13 different combinations. Though with each new word, the odds exponentially rose, and because we knew the public key, we could easily check if our generated wallets were correct.

Running it for 6 hours yielded nothing, so we knew we had to be keen on the video.  We joined a discord call 15 minutes prior and devised a plan -- each person takes a quadrant, and once the words were discovered, we all crash the board -- i deploy my bot while Ryan and Carc manually try and pull from the wallet

Taking a quick moment here to thank Carc's wife Chelsea and my girlfriend Lauren who also watched the video to help discover words 💜

The clues were hidden VERY well, but with 5 pairs of eyes we were able to see 5. donkey, 11. hawk/eagle, and 12. travel.

But on our first watch, we didn't find word 10. claw! But that left a mere 2048 options for the seed phrase, which my miner script easily computed in a few seconds -- the phrase was discovered!

Disclaimer: we thought 1 was black.  I had to run a couple iterations of my miner with our backup words to finally get the full phrase.

With the phrase completed, crash-the-board was in effect. By knowing the public wallet beforehand, we knew that there was no eth for gas and that assets lived on both eth mainnet and base

I ran my bot, which deposited eth on both chains, queried alchemy for all balances, and systematically started pulling out assets.

All was going well until i saw an error!

my script had pulled everything but had failed during the the 100k degen transaction!

thankfully operation crash-the-board saved us -- before i had time to debug my bot to pull out the degen, Ryan swooped in and manually pulled it out 🙏

finally, as a cherry on top, we inscribed a message in a transaction from the shibuya wallet to the shibuya wallet, reading "0xspencer, rskagy.eth, and carc captured the white rabbit", our announcement to the world and our fun little calling card :)

we have various plans for the degen, but will be giving back a large portion of it to this amazing community.  and thanks to @rskagy.eth and @carc.eth for being incredible partners, and @pplpleasr as well as everyone at Pleasr House for creating a beautiful community and intriguing puzzle 💜

Great work! You even had it all planned out with contingencies and everything.

congrats and thanks for sharing the stories behind

it was so fun just to be part of the hunt

Woah I watched from the sidelines but it seems I wouldn't have had a chance regardless 😂.

This is awesome, congratulations 👏 . It made me laugh,  that two of us were sat there with notepads and two laptops trying to restore wallets by trying to type in the different phrases. We had no chance 😊