Crazy Cryptokas Riddle #1 - winner announcement - 7 STEEM !
This is the winner announcement of the first Crazy Cryptokas Riddle!
you can find the riddle
HERE
@misko was the first to complete all steps of the riddle and gave the correct answer. He will receive 7 STEEM for his perseverance.
The correct answer was:
Let's steem on
Solution
In the first hint I gave you a letter grid that was not solvable without looking further in the riddle. The first clue to solve the grid was "Open the window to get a better view". The animated GIF further down in the post had the file name "window.gif". Inside the gif is a hidden frame that you had to lay over the letter grid to reveal the correct letters. With these letters you could make the word "bananas".
HTW IMGJYW MV HTW PWHHWJI ESPP UGSXW CMG HM A LPAYW ETWJW CMG TAFW ZWWB ZWVMJW. HTSI HSOW CMG TAFW HM LAC AB MJABUW HM WBHWJ.
The text was encrypted with a simple letter substitution. The second hint "The first letter of the alphabet is a gift!" made the decryption a little easier because the letter "A" was not substituted. The second hint gave you also a clue that the GIF was very important. A part of this hint has bold text (gif). The text after decryption gave you a final hint to solve the riddle:
THE SOURCE OF THE LETTERS WILL GUIDE YOU TO A PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN BEFORE. THIS TIME YOU HAVE TO PAY AN ORANGE TO ENTER.
The filename of the letter grid image is "qr_tsbrs.jpg" . This was the name of a second protected page with "orange" as password. https://www.protectedtext.com/qr_tsbrs
This riddle was extremely well done, @cryptokas! I had a lot of fun with it! I'm looking forward to future riddles!
My simple mind thought that it was all over on "bananas" and that there was nothing beyond. Well done @misko for cleaning up!
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