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Winner is Gavin Ballard of Brunswick East, Victoria, Congrats Mate!!!

On 18th August, Gavin used Internet Explorer 8 to enter the password “Courval” on www.fastsafeprivatebetter.com

This is what most of you have been waiting for, so here it is, the password is: ‘courval‘

As described in the previous 12 clues, to deduce the password, players had to overlay the image of three soldiers (Clue 9) onto the map image of Saskatchewan (Clue 5).

• Each soldier in the painting had a ‘v’ insignia on their shoulder. These had to line up with certain towns on the map.

• The insignia of the soldier on the right (Tom, Thomas) had to line up with the name of the author of “Soldiers Three” – Kipling.

• The insignia of the soldier in the middle (Dick, Richard) had to line up with the town that served as the final act for Thomas Bird – Regina.

• The insignia of the third soldier on the left (Harry, Harold) then lined up with apparently empty space.

• Viewing the image map’s exact location in Bing maps allowed players to zoom in and find that there is indeed two tiny towns in that location. One of them was the password: C**r*a*

I will making those * clear at the end of the day, so make sure you come back to check it (GTM time)

About 65 days into the competition, a player appears to have worked out the password and claimed the prize. We are currently verifying that person’s claim.
This was followed by a spate of players either sharing the password or working it out a few moments later. Some of them have also submitted their details to claim the prize in case the previous claimants are deemed ineligible according to the competition’s Terms and Conditions.

Clue: Harry’s left dreaming of a gaoler’s piano in Florida

Solution: This clue provides two parts of the puzzle. Firstly, “Harry’s left” indicates that Harry is the soldier on the left of the painting of Clue 9 (as featured throughout the last 10 clues), which is supported by the fact that this man is sleeping, ie. dreaming.
Secondly, what do a gaoler, a piano and Florida all have in common? Keys.
Harry is the key to unlocking the password.

Clue: March Borch’s men into Moll’s domain

Solution: Before posting this clue, an image was added to TenGrand_IE8’s Flickr page.
Titled “Take Tom, Dick and Harry North-West”, that image is of Herman Moll’s 17th Century map called “A new map of ye north parts of America, claimed by France”. The map includes part of Canada with Saskatchewan in the North-West. The image is tagged “cartographer, geographer, mapmaker” to indicate the importance of a map in solving the game. As described in previous clues, we
are calling the three soldiers in Borch’s painting Tom, Dick and Harry. By taking them to the North-West, you would be taking them to Saskatchewan, as featured in the map of Clue 5.

This clue, much like the new Flickr posting, is for those who hadn’t worked out from amongst the previous ten clues that the map from Clue 5 and the painting from Clue 9 need to be brought together. Herman Moll was a 17th century Dutch cartographer. Gerard ter Borch was a 17th century Dutch painter. More specifically, he painted “A Guard Room Interior, with a Soldier Blowing Smoke in
the Face of His Sleeping Companion, a Third Looking On” from Clue 9. Players are instructed to take the three soldiers from the Borch painting into Moll’s “domain”, ie. maps, but more specifically the map from Clue 5.

Please find here a PDF explaining all the clues with their answers, even for the ones that have not yet been released.

Official_Clue_Answers

Yep you found it here first

Have fun trying to crack the password although I will be releasing the password soon as well.

Website: www.fastsafeprivatebetter.com

Many thanks to ‘Dweb (real name Arunagiri)‘ for disclosing the website when you found it and creating a good trust with us.

I’d like to also give many thanks to all the people who commented on the clues and helped resolve most of them:

• Templeton
• Doon
• Wombat
• Up the Creek
• gdesignr
• NewYorkRob
• xjjanie
• Bothered
• Rob
• Heresphilly
• Andali
• RJ7
• And of course everyone at Whirlpool

I have had now news of at least 3 people now figuring out the password for the website which is good news, all confirmed but you can never trust what other people say or the images they send you as it could be a way of stopping others from pushing themselves to the limit of solving the clues and winning the 10 grand.

As you all know I live in the UK, so I am not able to take part in the competition since its strictly only for Australian residents.

Well done to the winner !!!

Clue: Woof-woof

Solution: There is a video in youtube that was posted by ie8 that showed a dog chasing its tail and the clue mention.

Here is the video.

Check back soon for a better solution…