I can’t say for sure and I don’t want to spoil the fun. I’ll give you this - where can 27 words be used in Cardano ecosystem? The answer is in this thread replies.
Also - have a look at the reply from the creator. Sounds like a blockchain doesn’t it?
“We don’t know the judge who determines the winner, we don’t have the votes to determine the winner, we can’t see the clock that determines the winner, and only the winner will know who they are.”
What’s the cipher? I assumed it was a hex-encoded string of bytes. Then, because of repeating bytes, I guessed it was a simple shift cipher, but I couldn’t brute force it, so maybe it’s something else.
Am I missing something here or are you over complicating it?
in the wallet or address? ADA and LOVELACE
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cypher key: is to sort the words into the correct order, ie: 23A is the answer in 23 across.
This would then provide the secret words to open the wallet? (below)
23A Gospel
5D episode
18D depend
1D tomato
20A crunch
4D start
19A bench
2D ignore
14D excuse
9D write
13A evidence
17D sniff
16D neck
11D Dutch
10A word
12A tuition
8A opera
3A cargo
21D hip
7D reward
24D silly
6D match
15A hen
23D gain
25A denial
22A kiwi
4A scatter
There was no one to validate your answers it was more like “getting the private key and run away with the funds”. If you own the private key, you control the funds.