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Re: New Bitcoin Puzzle
by
dalek
on 31/05/2016, 17:59:49 UTC

The picture has many cells and the colors and triangles could all hold information.


im guessing u mean something like

This looks like a pigpen cipher which was also used in the previous unsolved puzzle.

Also note that the placement of the white triangle on each 3x3 grid can have 4 different orientations, but only 3 orientations are ever used. There is no grid that has a triangle in this orientation: ◣

Using the grid numbering as above, and the position of the triangle, where ◤=a, ◥=b, ◢=d, the map becomes:
Code:
6b 7a 8b             7a 2b 2b    1d             6a    9b
8a    1d    1d    3d 7a 1a       1d    2a 3b 1a 6d 5a
         7a       6b 1a       7b 5d 5b 4a    7b 2d
      9b 2d             8a 3b 5a 3d 8b          2d
         6a 7b 9a    8d          7b 7b       8d    4d
4d    6b    3d 2b 7b 2b 2b 7b 2a 9b 5b 4d    8d 1b 4b
   1b 8a    2a 4b                      2a 1b 8b
6d             3d    6b 9a 4a 8b 3d    7d 8a
   1a    9a 4a 6d    7d          1a    5a
3a    6a 2b    7d    4a    7d    6b    3d    3b 7a    4b
               3d    3d          9b    4b 3b 4b    1b
            9a 5a    9a 5a 3a 6a 4b    8a             9b
         3b 1a 9b                      2b 8a    8d 6b
   8a 2a 6a    8a 1b 1b 8a 7a 1a 7a 3b 9a 7a    6b    4d
   7d    9b       5b 2b    6b    6d    1b 1b 1b
      *b          3b 1b 6b 3b 3a             3b 7d
      1b 6a    3a 8b 5b 9a       7a 2a       8d
   2d 6b *a 6d 5d    5d    1a 1b 7a 5b    6d    7b    5d
7b    2d             3d    8d 3d 9b             7d 8b 6a
And the character count is:
Code:
1b 7a 6b 3d 8a 7b 3b 9b 2b 1a 9a 7d 6a 8d 8b 4b 2a 6d 5b 5a 2d 5d 4d 4a 3a 1d *b *a
12 10 10 10  9  9  9  8  8  8  7  7  7  6  6  6  6  6  5  5  5  4  4  4  4  4  1  1

So there's 26 unique characters, so we probably just have to assign the right letters to these.