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Beta Key Puzzle

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FiBsTeR
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States415 Posts
May 23 2010 19:14 GMT
#1
B374 K3Y C0N7357

As the title suggests, what follows is a beta key contest in the form of a numerical puzzle (though the numbers in the title are not relevant). I will say no more about it, but I do ask that if you are fortunate enough to solve it first, please post here or PM me saying that you have redeemed the key. GL HF!

+ Show Spoiler [Part One] +

{STY PMR

:ry"

s+2 = PMR
s+3 = PMR
s+4 = YEP
s+5 = YRM
s+6 = YERMYU DRBRM
s+7 = YEP JIMFTRF GOGYU GPIT


+ Show Spoiler [Part Two] +

[image loading]


+ Show Spoiler [Part Three] +

[image loading]



*
TwilightStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States649 Posts
May 23 2010 19:21 GMT
#2
This should be fun...

Also, you should probably fix that smileyface in the first spoiler.
(5)Twilight Star.scx --------- AdmiralHoth: There was one week when I didn't shave for a month.
cyclone25
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Romania3344 Posts
May 23 2010 19:30 GMT
#3
On May 24 2010 04:21 TwilightStar wrote:
This should be fun...

Also, you should probably fix that smileyface in the first spoiler.


Might be a part of the puzzle!
YoonHo
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada1043 Posts
May 23 2010 19:42 GMT
#4
Fuck, I'm too stupid to do this.
IUFam Golf Wang~ NrGsteve
Muirhead
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States556 Posts
May 23 2010 20:05 GMT
#5
You're so mean to people :O
And terran too :X
starleague.mit.edu
AoN.DimSum
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States2983 Posts
May 23 2010 20:20 GMT
#6
eh... i did this wrong, I dont understand part 1.
by my idol krokkis : "U better hope Finland wont have WCG next year and that I wont gain shitloads of skill, cause then I will wash ur mouth with soap, little man."
m4gdelen4
Profile Joined October 2008
United States416 Posts
May 23 2010 20:23 GMT
#7
you bastard
it does to blue what blue does to you
AoN.DimSum
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States2983 Posts
May 23 2010 20:29 GMT
#8
Does anyone understand what to do with the pointer in part 1? ( dont really care about beta key, puzzle is bugging me )
by my idol krokkis : "U better hope Finland wont have WCG next year and that I wont gain shitloads of skill, cause then I will wash ur mouth with soap, little man."
snotboogie
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia3550 Posts
May 23 2010 20:48 GMT
#9
You just gave me Vietnam-style flashbacks to my year 12 4-Unit Mathematics class. Fuck. Memories of getting my dumb ass chewed out at 7am high-level maths classes returning.

Somebody help me I'm drowning
narri
Profile Joined November 2009
United States55 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-23 21:07:33
May 23 2010 20:57 GMT
#10
Got it. Explanation in a little bit.

+ Show Spoiler [solution] +


Part 2 is easy with an online listing of primes + Python. Part 3 is just a fancy way of saying "take the last nine digits of x1 and write them in the appropriate slots". So all we need are the a[i].

I have no clue what that smiley thing meant at all. But the listing looks like words spelled out. And there aren't many unique letters there. So its a substitution cipher.

I notice right away that the word "hundred" fits in the last clue. OK. But why should I manually do this? Just plug the text into Decrypto and I get "ONE ONE TWO TEN TWENTY SEVEN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY FOUR", meaning we have
a = [1,1,2,10,27,254]

You see the first part of the spoiler then decrypts to "?ART ONE", obviously as a check. But that smiley man....
Now the rest is fairly simple.

a = [1,1,2,10,27,254]
b = [sum(a[:i+1]) for i in range(len(a))] #because we need the partial sums
p = [prim[i-1] for i in b] #0-indexing versus 1-indexing
x1 = reduce(lambda a,b:a*b,p,1) #multiply all elements of p together
x1 is then 624888642


Nice spontaneous puzzle.
wiseman500
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States29 Posts
May 23 2010 22:11 GMT
#11
Already claimed
Congrats narri.
Going in circles.
FiBsTeR
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States415 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-23 22:34:48
May 23 2010 22:33 GMT
#12
On May 24 2010 05:57 narri wrote:
Got it. Explanation in a little bit.

+ Show Spoiler [solution] +


Part 2 is easy with an online listing of primes + Python. Part 3 is just a fancy way of saying "take the last nine digits of x1 and write them in the appropriate slots". So all we need are the a[i].

I have no clue what that smiley thing meant at all. But the listing looks like words spelled out. And there aren't many unique letters there. So its a substitution cipher.

I notice right away that the word "hundred" fits in the last clue. OK. But why should I manually do this? Just plug the text into Decrypto and I get "ONE ONE TWO TEN TWENTY SEVEN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY FOUR", meaning we have
a = [1,1,2,10,27,254]

You see the first part of the spoiler then decrypts to "?ART ONE", obviously as a check. But that smiley man....
Now the rest is fairly simple.

a = [1,1,2,10,27,254]
b = [sum(a[:i+1]) for i in range(len(a))] #because we need the partial sums
p = [prim[i-1] for i in b] #0-indexing versus 1-indexing
x1 = reduce(lambda a,b:a*b,p,1) #multiply all elements of p together
x1 is then 624888642


Nice spontaneous puzzle.


Excellent work! In fact, someone PMed me a correct solution almost an hour before, but luckily for you, he already had a key and was kind enough to leave it for you. Congrats!

I guess the answer to Part 1 was too easily guessed. Though I'm sure not many people are still interested in the puzzle since it's been solved, I'll give a hint for Part 1:

+ Show Spoiler [Hint to Part One] +

[image loading]


Thanks to everyone who participated!

EDIT: The smiley was intentional.
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