[SOLVED] Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

Solved by Will Perkins -

The next one will be harder and more fun, I promise :cool:

This puzzle came about in my spare time, when I saw Caleb Spilchen post in the test forum in binary. I offered him $50 to solve a simple puzzle, but figured it'd more fun to offer it in the challenge thread.

First one to post the answer gets $50 in their paypal account.

At the end of each week (Sunday night) I will post a new hint, subtracting $10 from the prize money.

When the prize gets down to $0, the thread will be closed.

Should be fun, here's the puzzle:

010100010011001001000110011100110101101001010111
010010010110011101010101001100110100001001110000
011000100100011101001110011011110101101001010111
001101000110011101010100010001110011100100110010
010110100101100001001101011001110101000101101101
011011000111010101011001010110000100101000110101
010011000100001101000010010000110110010001011000
010100010110011101010011010100110100001001000101
011000100011001000110100011011100110010001000011
010000100101010101100001010001110110110001110101
011000010111100101000010010010010101101001010011
010000100100110101100010001100110101101001101100
011000110111100101000010010000110101100101011000
010011100110110001001110011010100101000100111101

- Reilly

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

basically this binary unveils a proper message or just some random text?

i figured it was some random text:
Q2FsZW
IgU3Bp
bGNoZW
4gTG92
ZXMgQm
luYXJ5
LCBCdX
QgSSBE
b24ndC
BUaGlu
ayBIZS
BMb3Zl
cyBCYX
NlNjQ=

without breaks:
Q2FsZWIgU3BpbGNoZW4gTG92ZXMgQmluYXJ5LCBCdXQgSSBEb2 4ndCBUaGluayBIZSBMb3ZlcyBCYXNlNjQ=

incase it some meaningful message let me know

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

i did that earlier i suppose... :)... but whats the point of some random text?...

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

That's as far as Caleb got, there's a little more to it...

- Reilly

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

What is this all about? solving Binary values? What result do you expect though? Hexadecimal may be? LOL! I really want to know how to solve this puzzle :D

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

I was gonna make this the first clue, but it will translate to an 11 word sentence in legible English.

- Reilly

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

There are 3 answers to the sequence, so you are looking for the english transistion one Jimmy?

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

Lol...I'll have the answer within a couple days. I think I know what this is, but I'm not 100% sure, gotta research some things. I'm not going to refer to what I mean, because it's pretty simple once you get the idea.
I'm going to check it and when I'm sure, I'll be back with teh answer.

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

The correct answer will be an 11 word sentence phrase in English.

- Reilly

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

is there a message within all those jumbled up letters that we need to find?

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

I wonder the same thing

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

You just need to decode it properly and you will see it. ;)

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

Caleb Spilchen Loves Binary, But I Don't Think He Loves Base64


I win

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

See, if I knew you were gonna enter the contest I would have at least used MD5 or something.

The next one will be harder since I know you'll be trying them.

Nice job though...

- Reilly

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

tehehehehehehe ^_^

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

And how the heck did you come up with the solution? :confused:

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

I can't reveal my secrets ;) If there is another challenge I can't give anyone a head start :D

Re: [SOLVED] Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

He converted into a different code. I was checking into it, but didn't focus on the right thing lol.
There are plenty of ways to code with numbers, this was a different format than what everyone else was trying, simply a different coding language.

Will, I would'a had you in 12 hours gerrrrrrr!

Congrats man...

Re: [SOLVED] Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

Not exactly but close enough :)

FYI, base64 isn't a coding language, it's just a way to encode different forms of data that represent binary. It's a rather common misconception.

Re: Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

perfect... i was almost done.. but sleep... kills chances... :)

Re: [SOLVED] Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

Great puzzle, although I'm working in binary at the university, I'm not that advanced in these coding formats.

Re: [SOLVED] Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

Ahh binary, twos compliment would have been the death of me but being self-taught I was able to skip the boring parts.


- Reilly

Re: [SOLVED] Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

i GOT 21 CHARACTERS..aM I RIGHT?..:cool:

Re: [SOLVED] Fun Challenge - $50 Paypal To Whoever Solves My Puzzle...
 

FYI: The answer is in Will's 1st post in this thread... :D