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Board Games and rounds
Re: Ok, here's a 1BTC puzzle.
by
coinlocket$
on 03/09/2019, 19:03:45 UTC
Spent several hours on this puzzle, and disappointed by the solution.
It has almost nothing to do with the query, a simple answer.
I still don't get how someone can get this solution, I can think only (since the solution is quite random) forced by an attack or used by an alt of the op.

If this is not an alt it must by a brute force attack.




If you type "WhyTheCombOfNatashaOtomoskiHas21Teeth? filetype:txt" into Google, a file called big.txt will pop up. That's what I believed the .txt part to be. You can browse it yourself, but here are some basic facts:


I've also found this file months ago, and I think is someone who started to put words together to attack it.

However the word

Code:
Combing
is not present.

Code:
def g():
  global big
  big = file('big.txt').read()
  N = len(big)
  s = set()
  for i in xrange(6, N):
    c = big[i]
    if ord(c) > 127 and c not in s:
        print i, c, ord(c), big[max(0, i-10):min(N, i+10)]
        s.add(c)
  print s
  print [ord(c) for c in s]

This should what they used. It is on the end of the page.