Crypto: The Game

Today's CTG final immunity challenge was a multi-step puzzle that led players down a Purple App rabbit hole.

It all started with a clue on the CTG site this morning: "f6c6f6373337f2d6f636e24737163607271677x0 IVX XIDAR IVX XIDAR"

Here’s how it unfolded...

This clue reverses to 'RADIX XVI 0x77617270636173742e636f6d2f7333736f6c6f'.

'RADIX XVI' means base 16.

If you plug the address into a base 16 decoder, you’ll get 'warpcast.com/s3solo'

Building /crypto-the-game (acq by @uniswap). DylanAbruscato.twitter

A puzzle was posted on that account with the caption "search this" and unicorns hidden in the words. 

The unicorns represented parts of a seed phrase, with numbers showing their position. 

If unicorns were the same color, you added them up, unless different colors were present.

But here's the twist—this seed phrase and image were a red herring.

Instead of focusing on the puzzle, "search this" simply meant you should search the phrase directly on Warpcast.

This led to a second account with this in the bio: "102 111 108 108 111 119 32 109 101" (which decoded to 'follow me' in ASCII).

When someone followed the account, they got this automated DM:

The DNA sequence decodes to binary:

11110000 10011111 10010000 10100110 11100010 10000000 10001101 11110000 10011111 10010100 10100101 11110000 10011111 10001111 10011101 11101111 10111000 10001111 00110011

Players could use a DNA decoder or manually map nucleotides to binary.

This binary decoded to 🐦‍🔥🏝️3, the puzzle solution.

Congrats again to @frog & @bhaumik for being the first to solve it and secure spots in tomorrow's finale.

And big thanks to @percs for automating the DMs, and @shl0ms for lending us his big puzzle brain!