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Perplex City , an Alternate Reality Game created by the British company Mind Candy , features puzzle cards which can be solved to earn points on a leaderboard and earn clues to help understand the game. One of these cards, "The 13th Labour", features what players have determined to be a block of RC5 -64bit encryption, which is now being brute-forced, using a distributed computing client created by one player; available here .


Prizes


A number of prizes have been donated by Mind Candy and Perplex City players for the owner of the machine that finds the correct key.
The prize pool currently stands at:
  • Terra Incognita

  • We Be Rational Pirates poster

  • A Sock Puppet

  • All wave 1 and 2 red, yellow, orange, green, blue and purple

  • Black #208, #209. #210, #212, #213

  • Silver #251 (The Thirteenth Labour)

  • Offers of several new packs of cards

  • ...and from Mind Candy :

  • a poster

  • t-shirt

  • starter pack

  • a card signed by the artist who designed the Whipsmart Ice site

  • and maybe a few packs of Wave 3 cards too!!



Statistics


On 30th April 2006 the statistics stand as:
  • 1229 Clients

  • 2.87% of keyspace covered

  • 422467 work units complete




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