Cryptohunt - The Riddle

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1 Private Key - 800 hive on @hidden-block and a riddle that stands between you and this key.

First read this article if you have never heard of it before.

The Riddle

The neighbourhood is closed. The parties have known each other for many years and yet it is not quite clear who lives where. The neighborhood is manageable, everybody knows that, but how manageable? All the residents have is an old map that shows what the neighborhood originally looked like.

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Beautifully idyllic... The neighborhood that borders directly above the big river has changed over the last years. What does it look like today? One is unsure about that. All in all, we know quite a lot and yet little about our own neighborhood. Yet everyone living here would wish they knew more about the others. Maybe you can help? I will gladly share my observations with you:

Artur is very well known in the neighborhood. He calls house number 4 and 21 his own. But not only that. Artur's little brother also has two house numbers. One is definitely number 14, the other one is unclear which one it is exactly. It is only known that this is at least one, but not more than 4 house numbers away from one of his brother's house numbers. Funfact: People call this house number Jackpot. Why? I do not know either. I wanted to ask Sergey before but never got around to it. Sergey is a direct neighbor of Artur and knows some insider stories. What I remember about Sergey is that he isn't a direct neighbor of Sarah. At barbecues together, the two always make fun of the oldest inhabitant of the neighborhood. The one who was there first and yet always comes last. It is obvious. The first one is one of the corner residents, because he lives in one of the corners and has only 3 direct neighbors.

The residents in the neighborhood have an interesting peculiarity. They are either big or small. There is not a normal big one. With siblings there is one small and one big. Nobody knows what the reason for this is. In house number 15 lives someone who claims a copier is his father. A really weird bird. I only know that his name starts with the same initial letter as the first inhabitant and that he has a little brother who does not live in this town.
House numbers can follow each other directly and yet it is possible that the residents are not direct neighbors.

Nina is the only one besides Artur and his little brother who has two house numbers. One of these house numbers is single-digit. Between this house number and one of Artur are 4 other numbers. Nina's other property is right next to teddy.

teddy is one of the most interesting inhabitants. He probably has more information about this community than all the others together. I had also got him to send me some of his records, but unfortunately I do not manage to decode them as he described. When I asked him for help he made fun and sent me only the following e-mail:

00111111 01110011 01110101 01100010 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 00111101 01110000 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100100 01101111 01110100 01100011 01101111 01101101 01011011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 00111010 01000101 01100101 01001011 00111001 01010110 01010111 00110010 01101001 01011101 00001010 01011001 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110 00100000 01001000 01101111 01110000 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101001 01100100 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110111 01101111 01101110 00011001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 00101110 00001010 01010100 01100101 01100100 01100100 01111001 00100000 01100001 01101011 01100001 00101110 00100000 01001010 01101001 01001100 01011000 01001000 01001000 01011001 01100101 01111010 00111000 00001010

What should I do with it? I generally don't know if there is any sense behind it. Why does he always have to approach everything so circumstantially... so completely without reason. But further in the records:

I'm not sure if nadine and sarah live in the neighborhood or lena and leonie. But two of them are always just visiting here. Leonie is often seen near house number 12. Elise lives at number 18, right next to peter. peter is not a direct neighbor of Nina. Elise is something like the tattletale in the village. She gave me some information: The rich Ducki (she calls him that all the time, I don't know his real name...) lives right next to Nina. He bought his house after the neighborhood was actually already full. But due to a death he was able to get hold of his low house number. Elise also told us that diana - she lives in the house furthest away from the oldest inhabitant - only moved to the area because she wanted something from Fabian. Fabian was found dead a few months later and the whole community was shocked. It was rumored here and there that diana must have had something to do with this. Nevertheless she still lives in the area.

Yasmin often visits House 8, where her old school friend Wiegand lives, whom she has visited for years despite his strange name. Mine is the big sister of josh. xaya lives in the row closest to the big river and at the same time in one row with Elise, just like her direct neighbor Nina. There are a total of 4 residents who have a number in their name. I had actually written an email to teddy and asked him how it happened, but he just babbled something with keys and sent me this cryptic SMS:

2 = 2/(4x10)=16=37?!

I did not understand it until today and I don't know if he just wants to take me for a ride. Maybe he laughs at me because I try to decipher his senseless games. That reminds me, there is no resident who has a P as initial letter. I thought I better tell you this before I forget.

Anyway, I mean, I picked up the name 2Mad once, so I guess that can be true. I don't know where he lives... But I just noticed I had a short note. Between w and A is I and I mean I stands for Isaac... But what w and A stand for I really can't say anymore. Herold is the only big one with an H as first letter. Nobody in the neighborhood is called Yasmin, but she should visit artur often. NINE is actually 9 and has only 5 direct neighbors. The corner dweller, unknown until the last moment, is called nugat. After I found out who he was, I could at least estimate the rough outline of the neighborhood. nugat is the direct neighbor of nadine, who in turn is the direct neighbor of nugat and little harald. little harald loves to live on the edge, so he can always look beyond the edge of his plate. He says the guy from house number 13 could also live in the water by name.

Teddy made me a little note which I can only read when I have already received some information. As always he did not spare me with his jokes.

01000111 01101111 00100000 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 00101110 00100000 01000001 01110011 01101011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101101 00100000 01010100 01100101 01010000 01010001 01011010 01010010 01000111 00110111 00100000 00101101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01110000 01100001 01110011 01110011 01110111 01101111 01110010 01100100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01111001 00101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 00110001 00101011 00111001 00101011 00110001 00110111 00101011 00110010 00110101 00101011 00110011 00110011 00001010 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00101110 00100000 01001001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00101100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101111 01101101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100111 01101001 01101110 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 00101101 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101101 01100101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101111 01101101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01101111 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101101 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 00101110 00001010

A resident whose name is a number is a direct neighbor of diana. In direct neighborhood of Elise lives peter, who very often visits 2HO at the other end of the neighborhood. A strange name, but a very nice guy. But I was advised not to ask him where his name comes from. 2HO is said to be an acquaintance of Celsius, one of the most famous artists from the neighboring town.

House number 30 is located next to 22,31,29,38 and additionally adjoins 21,23,39,37. On this basis we can finally answer our first question completely. I also remember that till lives in a house number that is smaller than 19 and larger than 7. Unfortunately I do not know more exactly. But I do know that Waldemar has a single-digit house number.

Dagobert, whom many only know by his nickname, is a direct neighbor of sarah. I remember that Elise claimed that ROT lives in house number 13, but according to teddy this is not true. teddy had sent me this note about house number 13:

Ubhfr ahzore 13 unf ybat orra vaunovgrq ol na byq npdhnvagnapr. Uvf anzr vf Fbqn, fb gurl nyjnlf znxr fvyyl wbxrf nobhg uvz. Ur vf n qverpg arvtuobe bs Neghe.
At this point the records end, which I can share with you just like that. All other information is kept very confidential by the residents. If they were to notice that I collect all information in this way, it would have serious consequences for me. Why do you ask? Because these people here are sometimes very strange and don't want you to know anything about them. I don't understand it either, but that's the way it is. So you know what I mean: When I asked peter about the most interesting residents he told me: "Jens is interesting, but unfortunately he doesn't live here.

But I can give you another hint. A small group of 3-4 residents have collected a lot of this confidential information. I know that from a reliable source. But I really do not know how they store it. What I can give you is the following document that has fallen into my hands:

Name: Hidden-archive.txt
Content: 5KTSiMAk4S9mHbZWZ15KC8i6rZYZyXG6UqoFYSbFKQMf2763mFd

I guess it is some kind of password, but I can't tell what it is for.

I still have my own "secret" storage. But these are more sketches and notes than serious notes. But I have to make sure that you are very careful with this information, so I asked teddy to help me out a bit. I'm only supposed to tell you: If you have to hide a hidden note as obviously as possible, how do you do that?

Good luck searching!

1:xendor … as xendor told…
Xendor Xendor Lay Say Agil Generous Generic Vibe Be Best Camp Self Alright Zick While Zack U See Xendor Xendor

P.S. Here is your last piece of the puzzle:

Moqk es lhp znye dvkye mg nac dochom:
Xqqnv epzps sm cuduee 38 - uwvlg glbe tg Mhc.
Hyc tcbfh hlhpxfv cn tes bza hguds vtsooopalum pghb wph khwzrvivroifz jpgxr nqr asjxy glsw ehhhvpg ubr hdl zwlh nsg rhb vwad.

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Very cool! I really like this riddle stuff.
I managed to decrypt some of the messages already, but have to figure out how to go from here.

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Keep your eyes open ;)

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Thanks to @bil.prag the first hint is published. Do not miss important info ;)

#1 Hint published & Honeypot found

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Thanks to @lefevre the 2nd and 3rd hints are published,

2nd and 3rd Hint delivered - Honey is running short

If you are brave-hearted you should take this key.

Jo1uGH7W6cj3cJHy3KK2P7AZeR64a2XbV7vdFkCK1jDE6ksux and put P5 before it and V after it.

It will be like honey. Too easy? I know.

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Interesting

Is that so? This one's a gift.

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Thank you! 😁😁 I stole that gift! Im stumped on the rest though. 😩😩😩

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Very good, I would also have been surprised if this would have taken much longer ;)

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I was surprised it was still there tbh. Powered it up and bought some hive engine tokens. 😁 Thank you! Twas fun! We need more puzzles like this.

I have already seen that ;) So I did everything right.

But concerning the fun... You still have a long way to go ;) Besides the big puzzle you'll find others if you're attentive.

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i started it backwards or something.
now i have shit ton of keys
one active key i am not even sure for what account.
And i find this "38 -" broken :D

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In any case, I see that you have at least found the paths that lead you to your goal. But do you have everything you need for your journey?

Your hint will be verified during the day.

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Ok, I think I made it as far as Ill possibly make it. :P Im stumped at the "1+9+17+25+33" part. 😩

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i think i know what it is, it is just not working :D

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🤣 I thought that too. But I guess I was wrong.

I did get the 50 HIVE from the commend riddle though. That one was pretty easy. 😁

Maybe you do not have the right foundation yet :) But I saw that @bil.prague submitted a hint. If it is correct, it will be verified during the day and you will get another hint.

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