Unofficial bitcoin crossword puzzle - Week 5 - SPORTS EDITION

699 sats \ 39 comments \ @jasonb 6 Sep Stacker_Sports

The increasingly inaccurately named weekly crossword puzzle is up! Since @grayruby won last "week's" (posted this Monday) puzzle, the theme this week is sports!

week 5 puzzle

https://m.stacker.news/50235

week 5 puzzle

The info below is only necessary for the competitive type who wants to play for the bounty.

This week's bounty involves a second puzzle similar to week 1, but with a twist! There are answers that are on the BIP-39 word list. There's a 12-word wallet in which one of these words swept the first quarter of the game and other word swept the rest. The first person to comment with the xpub for this wallet gets the bounty.

BUT, let's make it a little more interesting!

Here is an address for said wallet.

bc1qswcrkuu5mfs2vg9y52xc2543zmnqmz3j9jwnyn

As of this posting, the wallet is empty. However, stackers might start sending actual on-chain bitcoin to this address (full disclosure, I won't). Once you've posted the xpub, I doubt anyone will send any more rewards to the address since the hunt is essentially over. Before you've claimed the bounty, the people with access will be whoever has solved the crossword (kinda hard this week) and figured out the (easy) riddle...and me. So you still might not be able to withdrawal the bitcoin because others and myself might take it. However, the bounty is a guaranteed amount of sats.

Whatever you do, have fun. It's just a puzzle. There probably won't ever be more money in here than what you could buy a cup of coffee with.

https://stackernewscrosswordpuzzle5.vercel.app/

PS (American) football fans, enjoy this cruel dig on Taylor Swift I found on nostrminusnostr sports yesterday. Is she really that unwelcome in the NFL?

https://m.stacker.news/50247

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55 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter 6 Sep

Thanks! Like this game very much! But this week, It's very difficult and quite USA centred.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Gotta admit, that’s mostly what I know as far as sports. :( If I do another one, I’ll try to do some more research on other nations’ traditions in this arena. Can I ask where you’re based out of?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 6 Sep

India

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Nice! But hey! There’s at least one sport in there that I’ve heard is popular in India that NO ONE plays or follows over here.

54 sats \ 10 replies \ @grayruby 6 Sep

Finally! What is a footstall in equestrian? Is that where they stop the horse before it jumps into the water? Haha. Or is that supposed to mean the stirrups?

https://m.stacker.news/50329

71 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 6 Sep

Yeah, the "technique for soccer players" carried that clue hard lol

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 6 Sep

Between this and keep track of my ongoing chess game with ek. I have done nothing today.

20 sats \ 7 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Congrats!

Stirrups

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 6 Sep

Haha thanks

50 sats \ 5 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Now the question is, are you going for the bounty? You just lowered the cost to entry significantly with posting the solved crossword.

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 6 Sep

I will leave that for another brave soul. Have a couple things to do at home and then I have to go sort through a bunch of stuff I have had stored in my parent's basement for 2.5 years. Need to take advantage of a large disposal bin they have on site for some work being done in their yard.

If no one has claimed it by tomorrow, I will give it a shot.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @OneOneSeven 6 Sep

I'm working on it heh, I love the riddle parts. No passphrases right?

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Correct! I’m not making that mistake again!

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 6 Sep

https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExd2g0ZGs0c3dlOXVvbHp5OHplejcwZXA0bDRhcDFyczBhNWJicDI0ZSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/4KF85OSbyjVOfyjksJ/200.webp

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 6 Sep

If I end up claiming the bounty, will the next crossword be alien themed?

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Hell yeah it will!

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ravener 6 Sep

can i get some more hints on how the wallet seed phrase is formed? I did not understand that part.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

It's definitely supposed to be a riddle. It's a sports themed riddle.

21 sats \ 8 replies \ @grayruby 6 Sep

I have no clue what 15 across and 7 down are.

20 sats \ 7 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Those are definitely the hardest ones!

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 6 Sep

Just 15 across left. Very challenging. Your crosswords are getting better and the UX is better now too.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 6 Sep

We are neck and neck then! I should probably get back to work though...

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

The champion returns!

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Thanks! I, just a minute ago, added an Easter egg to the ux for future sports territory puzzles. I’m kind of ashamed on getting called out on being that ignorant American. I should have remembered that this is an international community and hope to do one that better reflects that someday.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 6 Sep

You did add cricket as an answer and there is a question about soccer, which I cannot answer. Haha.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 6 Sep

My problem is I figured everything else out so I have no more help coming. Haha.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 6 Sep

Hopefully someone will offer up a trade. I’ve got no clues to share!! Mwahaha

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 6 Sep

I can't solve this

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scroogey 11 Oct

I think I solved the riddle, the xpub is

zpub6rAvJ7mhbhbxvr6bQ54ExNAYhRu9bpC786PKcRfFPsZiZianfTpDeo5f71SoNzdz8AJCXy22ZhWPC5vCjqgVXgAjGXdEoJr19jxgawLnZbk

the second address is

bc1qfj5jteh2s9su46a5yqx83x45dvlcrvzkqupvtm

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 14 Oct

So yeah, I mean we knew it was right when you shared the seed phrase, but that's the right xpub too! This one took a long time for someone to crack!

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

Awesome! I’m setting up for work right now and then going nonstop until Monday, but I’ll be home late tonight and will try to check if you’re right. Otherwise, I’ll definitely do it Monday. If you can see that 7000 sats (actually a little less than that) that went in and out in transaction history, you definitely got it though.

2021 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 11 Oct

The seed phrase is

cricket cricket cricket ball ball ball ball ball ball ball ball

i.e. three (one fourth of twelve, or the first quarter) times cricket, the rest ball

Looks like a nice job you got, break a leg!

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 11 Oct

You got it!!!

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @jasonb OP 10 Sep

No one has claimed the bounty yet, but it looks like someone has figured out the riddle! Someone else has already sent them 7000 sats.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @OneOneSeven 18 Sep

LOL I sent those sats and forgot about this haha!

I figured the only way to get into the wallet is trial and error since the riddle seems less obvious to me this time, and I think I have 10/12 of the seed word. I thought the easiest way to tell if it's correct is make a transaction to it, so it has some history.

So someone already figured it out and just hasn't posted the xpub?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 18 Sep

There was a 16 minute delay between your sats getting there and them being removed. I don't know if that means a person was monitoring it VERY diligently or if a bot was put on this wallet some time back. Once you figure out the riddle, you'll know that the phrase has to be extremely low entropy.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 18 Sep

I see, I see. And just to be clear the riddle is this part:

There's a 12-word wallet in which one of these words swept the first quarter of the game and other word swept the rest.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 18 Sep

Yes, there are two answers in the crossword that are also BIP-39 seed phrase words. Once you know these words, you'll use them in conjunction with this cryptic message.