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#1 Re: Main Forum » Contest Results » 2014-02-03 13:39:13

Awesome contest! It was a really great motivation to design. My house (9th) was planned around being as expensive as possible to break into even with perfect knowledge of the layout. To get in without tools a pin (1 & 4) needed to be entered, then 2. Pressing 2 out of order, or any extra/missing keys, locked the doors forever. The dogs on the left collected bounties as people explored.

A later variation was eventually beaten by someone with $48,000 in tools who hacked through all the wired walls on the bottom half of the map using nearly 60 saws.

Thanks again Jason! I look forward greatly to "One of Two" by Chris Bell!

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#2 Re: Main Forum » The Contest » 2014-01-29 22:52:22

If you were in the top 9 an email did go out about painting choice and permission to post house plans.

#3 Re: Main Forum » Electronics Tutorial? » 2014-01-28 10:11:56

You need to change the horizontal wiring into a wired wall, or else they can break the wooden wall above and look at the combination.
Just as a variant that prevents brute force, here's a compact version of what I've used before.

http://i.imgur.com/lUaOT6S.png

The lock is the same, but they can't simply cut the power for the electric floors or doors due to the powered trap doors also losing power.
electric floors and powered doors are interchangeable, just changes the necessary tools to brute force.
Also, having it against the wall would prevent breaking the wall from the other side for the code.

It is just a wiring example, in yours they can spend $1600 and know the combo. My house in the competition took something like $15,000 to know the combo. It takes something like $25,000 now. This is of course if you know the optimal path already smile.

With the term brute force I meant trying lots of different keys, not tools. Your house does not improve that. You would want the door out of sight of all buttons and behind commit gates that take over $2,000 in tools to escape.

If you look at my example, they actually cannot cut the wire either. The door is powered from inside, and opened by sending power IN. If they cut the wire, they will not be able to open it with a combo

#4 Re: Main Forum » Electronics Tutorial? » 2014-01-28 08:32:00

There have been a few people asking about how to do a combo/pin lock. Here is a very basic example:

http://castlefortify.com/c/968930e

The pin here is 1, 3, 5. If they are pressed and 2, 4, 6 are not pressed, there is a signal sent that cuts power to the door. 1, 3, 5 can be entered in any order, as long as they are pressed before 2, 4, 6. To brute force this type of lock it will take at most (2^n)-1 attempts. So this example will be solved in 63 attempts or less. You will want to have traps to prevent people from viewing the door  more than once after entering the code or else up to 6 attempts can be made in one house visit (1 | 1,2 | 1,2,3| 1,2,3,4| 1,2,3,4,5| 1,2,3,4,5,6).

You can make locks that need buttons pressed in order, or have the same button pressed multiple times as well. These become much more difficult to brute force, but also require more difficult electronics that take up valuable space.

#5 Re: Main Forum » The Contest » 2014-01-27 19:16:23

jere wrote:

Synthesis, check your painting id. It should be in a text file in a folder associated with your painting. If it's 2142, that's you.

It checks out! Whitfield eh? I can live with that. Amazing contest! What a finish!

#6 Re: Main Forum » The Contest » 2014-01-27 19:08:43

I think I might be 9th! Jason these results don't help much hahaha. Can anyone confirm Andrew Whitfields house is this one?:
http://castlefortify.com/c/5032e2d

edit: Don't walk in too far ha!

#7 Re: Main Forum » The Contest » 2014-01-27 18:22:04

I have 84k nooooo I think I am 9th ha.

#8 Re: Main Forum » The Contest » 2014-01-27 18:16:32

If I had $20k going into the last few minutes and had gotten good at robbing I would probably max out on tools and try to take down a top house. That's probably where all the $$ came from. I know someone dropped like $8k worth of tools in my house and I was floating around 7-10th of houses I could see.

#9 Re: Main Forum » The Contest » 2014-01-27 18:13:23

I think it would be really cool to see the top 8 houses! Maybe if people save them and then release when there is a big update that makes them outdated?

#10 Re: Main Forum » The Contest » 2014-01-27 18:07:36

Wow, best game promotion ever in my opinion!!! I think I may have a painting! really hard to tell those last hour who was alive, what they had. My house has 5 buttons up the top left wall, dog traps down the bottom left wall. Solid concrete to the right, door all the way in the bottom. From there on is a mystery smile No one even got past that.

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