podGallery Solution
Congrats to for solving the podGALLERY puzzle and securing 2 podGANs.
There were many routes to solve it though the simplest could be done in 4 stages.
Stage 1: Find the Duplicates
There are 14 duplicates between the 6 pods - 12 that matter, and 2 meant to be a distraction. Once you have found all the duplicates, the next challenge is determining which are the 12 that matter.
Stage 2: Recognize the Pattern
Finding the 12 that mattered had a couple different paths, but the easiest was to recognize that at least 1 of the duplicate pairs was in the First and Last square of each pod. This reveals 2 podGANs from each pod that mattered and the 12 podGANs that were important to solving this puzzle.
There were several other paths that would have discovered this including comparing the 6 pods prior to SomniumSpace podGALLERY to the SomniumSpace pods. If you did, you would have noticed the change in the first and last changed of each. Also you could find significance in the numbers 9, 27, 81, 243, & 729. Some also noted that the first and last podGANs were the only ones out of sequential order on some of the pods. It didn’t matter how you discovered the pattern, just that you arrived at these final 12.
Stage 3: Get the Seed Phrase
At this point you had to do a little busy work to identify the 12 podGANs and from there you could look up their attrbitutes to find a seed phrase.
But there was a twist, and this twist might have been the final most difficult step.
Simply put, the seed phrases in the attributes are the wrong words. They are words from the slip-39 list, when the words needed to unlock the wallet needed to be taken from the bip-39 list.
So if you looked up the equivalent value from the bip-39 list, you would got the correct seed phrase, in the correct order. Which would then allow you to...
Stage 4: Open the Wallet and Abscond with the podGANs
Sorry for the two red herrings if they threw anybody off, cause they were tough. This is first time one of my puzzles took longer than 5 minutes to solve.
And with it’s unlocking, something really cool is about to happen with the podGANs. Look for an announcement in the next couple of days.