Quote from: arg on July 06, 2014, 11:29:19 PM

Quote from: shorena on July 06, 2014, 11:16:40 PM

Quote from: arg on July 06, 2014, 11:00:44 PM

Quote from: ooxtcoo on July 06, 2014, 10:57:56 PM

btw... the solution is.... one small now is tall... so exchange w with W in the 51 character string...

That's fucking stupid. It's unrelated to any of the information given. Why was the shit on the right of the image then? The OP made a typo in the given key and somehow that's supposed to be part of the ARG?

I dont even get it...

z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P switch(w,W)
-> z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zeWEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P
and then what? shift 6EQUJ5 times?
...
5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kke8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp

Where is the palindrome hint? I am confused and go to sleep maybe someone is nice and write a "for dummies" how to solve the last step so I can finish the pdf.

You get "6EQUJ5", turn it into integers using the pattern in Crops.jpg.

Code:

6EQUJ5 = (decoded) = 6,14,26,30,19,5

You change the w to a W in the string (who the would have thought of that?)

Code:

z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1ze[W]EeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

You shift the key in Wow.jpg by the numbers sequentially, looping once you run out

Code:

5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kAe8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp

You then add 0.35% more to your horde of BTC like Gatekeeper did.

Thank you, as well as the others who gave one, for the answer.
Since you allready had the rest the W might as well be a typo by OP...

Quote from: arg on July 06, 2014, 11:50:11 PM

Quote from: arg-sidekick on July 06, 2014, 11:44:15 PM

Love, sidekick.

Later.

Quote from: micaman on July 07, 2014, 12:04:25 AM

-snip-
EDIT2: the W thing was a fix for a mistake. Could have ended up much worse or not at all. I would have done it all again, no regrets.

It shouldnt have have been. OP stated that the riddle was solved twice beforehand (I assume by someone trusted, e.g. her brother and his wife - who both have the nerdy/techy background) so this error would have shown and could have been corrected.

Quote from: J. J. Phillips on July 07, 2014, 02:42:44 AM

Now that this is over I wanted to remind people that there's a treasure hunt at mathgate.info:
http://mathgate.info/treasurehunt.php
There are a lot of treasures ranging from 1 mbit to 1 bitcoin, so it's less winner-take-all.
-snip-

You posted that so often I might not go there just because of that. Feels like you need to push that page down our throat.

Oh well its math proofs, ofc you gotta do it. I might check it out Wink

@OP thanks. I will make you a final pdf it might take a few days though, exams are near.