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zodiac animal // goat
seed word // lobster
134C16 - 144F18 - 058493 - 3215969 - 8527038 - 7536084 - 9967678
solution
what the goat says is important:
"The dark lord Baphomet hexed me...
...he charged my horns with all the sins of the world...
...and cast them in 2 layers of 2 different types of gold."
hex = hexadecimals
2 diff types of gold = pi & phi
numbers appear in golden spiral so fibonacci numbers must be used.
because the goats horns are charged,
the hexadecimal values of the seed word are multiplied by
the first 7 consecutive numbers of the fibonacci sequence,
then sandwiched inbetween pi and phi.
see here:
lobster in hexadecimals
L O B S T E R
4C 4F 42 53 54 45 52
multiply by first 7 consecutive fibonacci numbers
x1 x1 x2 x3 x5 x8 x13
4C 4F 84 159 270 360 676
sandwich in between pi 3.1415926535897
34C1 44F1 5849 21596 52703 53608 96767
sandwich in between phi 1.6180339887498
134C16 144F18 058493 3215969 8527038 7536084 9967678
kari's commentary
i saw this puzzle posted to /r/maths asking for a solution.
the post didn't include the goat's clues on hex so i was semi-confident this puzzle couldn't be solved by some random redditor with no involvement in the game.
this puzzle was the hardest. i think only the winners in the end solved it.
i was so happy when they told me.
pi & phi symbols appear on the golden suitcase, so that should have been a clue that the goat's horns were encased with these numbers.
i'm born in the year of the goat, so i loved that this puzzle turned out to be the final boss of all the puzzles.
due to the baader-meinhof phenomenon, i keep seeing the word "lobster" everywhere.
also for no reason here is a joke my boss once told me:
what do you call an asian lobster?
a crustasian
(it's ok i can say this i'm asian)
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