Sick of the New York Times crossword puzzle or maybe just the NYT in general? I would like to present the first (correct me if I'm wrong) SN crossword puzzle, featuring the world's smallest UTXO as a reward.
If you can solve this crossword, and then interpret the results through the puzzle at the bottom, you'll have the seed phrase to the last sats from my Phoenix wallet (moved to a new wallet). There is one 500 sat UTXO in there. The first person to prove that they have access to that wallet by broadcasting a transaction or some other on-chain signing get* the 1000 sat bounty. All this to say, you really don't get anything, but it should be really fun if you like crosswords/puzzles. At the least, this should be more fun/ethical/zappy than doing the NYT games.
Across
1 - What you’d like to do to the fiat system
7 - Resident of Australia
8 - Sly signal
9 - A tender cut, this one will be hard for Brits
9.5 - Too violent for me, rated M
11 - A title of increased controversy
13 - Don’t do this with the seed phrase if you beat the crossword
14 - You did this to your draft card
15 - My ear likes to hear one, my ear also has one
15.5 - GOAT but better
16 - heart of the castle
18 - part of both the S&P 500 and military industrial complex
20 - result of impact
22 - The ibis and the wolverine both work for one of these
23 - product of destructive distillation
24 - one of twenty-four, and it’s not a word in your seed phrase
25 - out to sea!
26 - many PSAs about this in the 90s
29 - as the fed is to debasement, these folks can be to research
30 - southern “delicacy”
Down
1 - one of 43’s nicknames inverted and spelled out
2 - what I can’t do with fools
3 - don’t confuse us with ice-picks
4 - the food, not the number
5 - hippies might hug me
6 - what brings us all together on stacker news
7 - the name who told me tinnitus was permanent
10 - an mp3 of this should play for every zap
11 - another name for motorcycle
12 - what the IRS does to my taxes when I try to pay in bitcoin
13.5 - silent sound
14 - the only thing my mouth and shoe share in common
15 - if you say this verb slowly enough, it sounds like something you might say while admiring a Picasso
17 - Bitcoiners are sometimes into a philosophy that refers to these as turnings
19 - synonym of 15 down but much more dramatic
21 - world’s most popular epitaph
27 - get out of the way!
28 - the toy that taught me my first physics lessons
you can figure out the seed phrase and order if you: do (4) what (4) the (6) knights (4) think (7) crazy (6) ensigns (6, e-k) risk (6) for (7) every (6, e-e) righteous (3) scholar (6) .
You don't get the bounty for just solving the puzzles. You'll need to somehow prove access to the wallet. There are red herrings.
*I paid over 600 sats in fees to get it in there so you'll probably need to make a one sat transaction, idk, if you can solve these puzzles, you're probably smart enough to sign something from that wallet cheeply/freely
1,000 sats paid