Steem Monsters Puzzle #2 - Hint for winning the 4 Booster Packs and Bonus Pack draw!

[cknr7]

It seems that Steem Monsters Puzzle #2 is a bit more difficult than the previous one :-P

So far, the first step has been found out by a few of you.

Using Stegsolve or another tool, you would have find the following string hidden in the picture:

XU U9 V3 W3 ZU WY WW UZ UU ZW XS V4

that needs to be decrypt in order to go forward.

It seems that it is where people are struggling so without further ado, here is a hint that should help you to solve it:

The 4 Booster Packs are waiting for you!

Puzzle rules for participating:

• upvote this post;
• comment with your Steem Monsters account + the solution you found.

PS: Blind guesses or other methods that don't follow the path of the puzzle won't be accepted.

Now let's process to the Bonus Pack winner draw!

This time you were 20 to make an entry for the bonus pack!

Thanks to all for joining it:

@deadzy, @ifeoluwa88, @pinkwonder, @jlordc, @knowledge-seeker, @nervi, @cranium, @rentmoney, @minhaz007, @cryptkeeper17, @robinsonlgil, @samarek69, @cicisaja, @udow, @schach, @gregory-f, @schachoberhessen, @ninjamike, @bosssteem, @mafaldation

Using this random thing picker tool
The winner is:
@gregory-f
Congrats!!

Comments

[ifeoluwa88]

Cant see any hint

[pinkwonder]

It's invisible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

[cknr7]

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
PS: not a hint, just a way to say "Keep looking" :-)

[ifeoluwa88]

Hmmmmm

[pinkwonder]

The previous image has the name whoami?anyid?.png (Who am I? Any ID?). I explored your cards collection, and found, that your cerber's card id is C-IZC7A62EA8. It contains 12 letters, but I don't know, how to match it with decoded string (it has 12 pairs of symbols also).

Your hint image is identical of original, and only its name looks like Caesar encoded string. It can be decoded to vigenere. But classic vigenere cipher applied only for letters, so I am
stuck here.

[ifeoluwa88]

We all are stuck ....I just want thee booster pack nothing more

[cknr7]

Haha nice finds man!
I was sure at some point or another someone would have a glance at my collection and found the solution. Hence the PS above ;-)
So basically C-IZC7A62EA8 is the solution and vigenere is the hint.
I agree that classic vigenere cipher applied for letters only but you have to find a way to include numbers.
Only 2 more steps needed to the solution. Come on guys! you can do it!

[pinkwonder]

There is not very interesting to continue when I already have the correct answer, but I'll try.

1. I suggest, that letters pairs in encoded string are X and Y coordinates in Vigenere's table, so we need to find alphabet. I tried several variants with python script (letters + numbers, number + letters, cases with "-" symbols), but with no results. Symbols in the alphabet may be shuffled, so maybe alphabet string still is hidden in the image =\

2. If answer without all solutions steps is not acceptable, it can be used as a hint - 1 symbols pair corresponds to 1 letter in the answer. Looks like it's incorrect because in Vigenere code symmetric letter pairs (ZU and UZ) must return identical letters, but in answer there are different letters in these positions (C and 6).

[cknr7]

Still interesting for getting the 4 Booster Packs ;-) If no one found out the ways to get there in the next 48 hours, so 12pm UTC next Monday, whoever has been the farthest will get 1 Booster Pack and I will make another puzzle with 3 Booster Packs to win.
For the vigenere I used:

• there are letters and numbers, so you have to adapt the alphabet accordingly (0123456789ABCD... or ABCD...0123456789, or 123456789ABCD... etc);
• and you need a key, which might be only letters, only numbers, or letters + numbers, in order to decode the string.

Helping you more than that would be like giving all the way to the solution ;-)
Still 48 hours to go.
Good luck.

[cknr7]

@gregory-f booster pack sent ;-)

[gregory-f]

Thank you for the Booster Pack! I'm still pretty much clueless on how to solve the puzzle, but I'm trying!

[cknr7]

You are welcome! Good luck ;-)

[udow]

nobody can solve this puzzle, so just send the booster packs to me and all is ok lol

[cknr7]

Lol! Someone will succeed, keep faith ;-)

[deadzy]

Merci pour les indices !
Pour tes prochains tirages, j'ai fait une app il y a peu, elle pourrait sûrement te simplifier la vie :)
https://deadz.github.io/SteemRandomDraw/

[cknr7]

Cool! merci pour l'info ;-)

[monstersvote]

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[schach]

I don't understand what should be the hint.
For me it's the same card as in the post before ...

[cknr7]

Some have found, check above ;-)

[jlordc]

Got the hint but is still stuck :p

I suspect that we need to do something first on the string above (since it has numbers) before you can apply the hint?

Edit: Is "Dr Eratatise of Reverys" close? lol

[knowledge-seeker]

Would you like to share? Haha! Just kidding. I am stuck again, so best of luck and I hope you win the packs.

[cknr7]

Not close. Look above the nice finds that pinkwonder had and my comment ;-)

[udow]

I guess that you need a codeword to decord this Chiffre.