<center><h1>Prepare - Uncover - Outwit - Find - WIN!</h1></center>
<center>https://s12.postimg.org/i6otc4y2l/8win.jpg</center>
The 7th Steemit Crypto Challenge is over and we are happy to announce the winners:
Congratulations @anduweb and @spiz0r!

You followed your intuition and stayed on the right track. Solving the puzzle you saved your reward. 75 Steem goes to each of you.
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<center><h1>Solution</h1></center>
Here is a breakthrough, showing step by step what you had to do in order to solve the crypto-puzzle.

The two given hints were:
<center><code>Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed
1:5,2:1,3:3,4:7,5:8,7:1</code></center>
<center>and</center>
<center><code>194348662X
EnCt2c7c09c257615912a1be396241d6b1da822853385c7c09c257615912a1be396240XwLbbvDuAJ d3yZyBlgXDZarrDUSOf8KDg7lgPlfdjTYqXb33QyJqz8J321xsJiT7Z3uuqModkgHIwEmS
Decrypt it at https://encipher.it
send me what you got in the chat</code></center>

User @anduweb found out that <em>Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed</em> is a quote from one of Dan Brown's books. However it was so far unknown to him how to use this part of the first hint <code>1:5,2:1,3:3,4:7,5:8,7:1</code>
<center>https://s22.postimg.org/s2gklpatt/solu1.jpg</center>
194348662X is the ISB number of the book we were speaking and this is where the actual code has to be applied:
First row:fifth word, second row:first word, third row: third word, fourth row:seventh word etc.
Following this pattern they found out the password for the  encrypted sequence:
<code><center>EnCt2c7c09c257615912a1be396241d6b1da822853385c7c09c257615912a1be396240XwLbbvDuAJ d3yZyBlgXDZarrDUSOf8KDg7lgPlfdjTYqXb33QyJqz8J321xsJiT7Z3uuqModkgHIwEmS</center></code>
The password is: once of score the book gave

Leading to the following image:
<center>https://s15.postimg.org/4msogxht7/image.jpg </center>
@anduweb and @spiz0r needed quite a bit of time to figure out what this actually is and means.
Spiz0r finally came to the conclusion that this is a magical square and solved it.

<center>https://s17.postimg.org/fcd2v8r3j/Albrecht_D_rer_Melencolia_I_detail.jpg
Source: [Wikipedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Melencolia_I_(detail).jpg)</center>
Instead of taking the reward of 100 Steem alone, he decided to share it with anduweb. 
Because of him being to generous and kind I decided to make the final reward 150 Steem so both get a decent prize.
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Great work and congratulations to the winners and all who participated.
Don't miss the next Steemit Crypto Challenge and be prepared.

<em>Tim Said</em>