The Twelve Days of Christmas 2025 Challenge - Double Time

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Congrats to the 8 who have completed Challenge 01 so far!

The Challenge is open to everyone of all skill levels including visitors, members and hashpwn staff.

Word to the wise, if you want a chance at the Grand Prize, you'll need to have completed all previous Challenges!

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Challenge 03 - HASH
UTC: 2025-12-21T00:00:00Z

Secret:

56308234302f9b3bad0e65abceef0946
ea1b08e06e76dad02984f78031ab4eff
d07ff2cc9fb9a48c410f11866d12ff63
f8854b04f0726350310337b83116ba3d

Word of the Day Challenge URL: https://contest.hashpwn.net/claim/205971745068fe769fca97c11e08ad20

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Once you complete a Challenge, react to the Challenge post with a to show you finished it.

If you are the first person to complete a Challenge and win the prize, react with a for some extra bragging rights!

Thanks to our sponsors, we have already given out $60 in cash prizes and multiple vouchers, with over $400 and many more vouchers still up for grabs.

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Challenge 03 - HINT
UTC: 2025-12-21T04:50:39Z

Spoiler

Cupid was cheerfully shouting, 'the New Tinsel Looks Marvelous!'... whatever that's supposed to mean.

PRO TIP from Santa's helper:
This list might come in handy over the next few days.
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

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Challenge 04 - HASH
UTC: 2025-12-21T13:00:00Z

Secret:

$HEX[636f6e64756374]
$HEX[617072696c]
$HEX[6b6579]
$HEX[656e74697265]

Word of the Day Challenge URL: https://contest.hashpwn.net/claim/a3bbbbe7eb85d01b462a642c0381c41e

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Way to go everyone!

So far the puzzles have been easy, but don't get too comfortable. Things will get harder, and they seem to be building toward something big! Stay sharp and pay attention...

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Challenge 04 - HINT
UTC: 2025-12-21T16:33:10Z

Spoiler

Rudolph was able to decode these with his favorite tool: https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/89

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Challenge 05 - HASH
UTC: 2025-12-22T00:00:00Z

Secret:

dded9334f7f951835268d3d52295d6da85a5916b236e9aa6a31a0222109c952416e0b9afb8450994fae53e4af3b05771
b080191ba2d998e4ea51b1bec7b4c3d67e7cb135fb1a14b74400f5b9d31b55f2140d3ab86780b7d676347fc936944c70
5587f655617a2b61735a15c350386aacc3d5257f34adfb05c8ff0c0cde206b6bd43ba07bf4822cb6e4b3a6b17eea66c7
1d7f1c9e29bb9bd12fc582f800f5a5a1b10cf85e7e37eaa867dd224569094603e5263685bcc302e86a43e3fa941165c2
f7bbe64643ab62010a51f348750780381b26979e8320fa325c26ea1e23cd0c7dd7da77f921a4b97239a0d04fceb371eb
5c75c48541f9be797f0a952acd8af5abc5529b6f2d88e82030ac57759db1c6c64f00c374c77fed76ad7218b4070bfef0
da465238740fe235d2e96d8af2d9371b1b801b705fc7cff56ee6bfa7892b521963e672c33b9cbae1e66c8651a3cbd228

Word of the Day Challenge URL: https://contest.hashpwn.net/claim/922e0cfb6fdf74f8446917cd3cd6250a

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Challenge 05 - HINT
UTC: 2025-12-22T04:04:29Z

Spoiler

Mrs. Claus is asking if anyone has seen her scarf... or was it her shawl?

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Challenge 06 - HASH
UTC: 2025-12-22T12:00:00Z

Secret:

ef05ea39eca9cc5ab44ba987f89e3e823258a84fc83490c96023b60e1950ff007925c94a17106f1509d12071f5b02fb5
2390f61cf9536e8487292d7debdedb7449b8457a27f0d96c5cf3333dd616d9731bd021eff4d214085d277b9e9e95b5d5
179f9b77ee47d9bda864c34d5a45c4c3d9d8ee1e573cea2581a19246d2fa582a105c1557c2ea55388e43cfea83748153
8eb63ac159dc919ccdf49ea8ab46d5f1dd7016e4c613c63aabc947b3f57c76285e0153406182c2fe43511bad9b9dfd6b
3983f08d6f2ec960acd8574055d087ecd1ac8b71283ed5468011a75f3d9ed0b73b35504b4770b61200160a91f8ac6a76
95e41f2a7f28b58c14b429a1433e3f74c235a4ee5cec2b150d97a865ea18e93dd2c63fdb91dc08c962cf964fb669a1d1
61ff4d590a9ef4c5eeea23ef8f8be1c04395967b3fc1ba1e78f3b9f3fb78352ed1bfd9bce26b163ce75b84efd0ae65bf

Word of the Day Challenge URL: https://contest.hashpwn.net/claim/0207d208f1d572a154232d181408bf57

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Challenge 06 - HINT
UTC: 2025-12-22T16:44:03Z

Spoiler

I'm going to eat some cake while I figure this one out.

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Congrats to everyone who has completed Challenges 01 - 06! Things will start getting harder soon as the Challenges progress, so enjoy the next few "easy" ones.

Also, if you are the winner of a Challenge, as a gentlemen's agreement, consider giving everyone else a 5-10 minute head start for the next few Challenges so others can have a chance at 1st place. UPDATE: https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/7931
Winning 1st on the Daily Challenges won't help your chance at the Grand Prize, but paying attention to the Challenge Hashes and Hints will.

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Challenge 07 - HASH
UTC: 2025-12-23T00:00:00Z

Secret:

31fe901a5e6a1482535468f35f595288e4afb659e1a94ced92d02ed8
ac8f3c63fe1d1cb6ec04053586a1b435c957ea50854a7feb55dd1b5a
fdadc558bb54d8b0a39a493373c12ce3a9b1050cc21890d623221570

Word of the Day Challenge URL: https://contest.hashpwn.net/claim/6f57ffabac2ce2136b8d1f6fa5f101b1

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Challenge 07 - HINT
UTC: 2025-12-23T05:28:12Z

Spoiler

Just what I wanted for Christmas, another shawl.

PRO TIP from Santa's helper:
I hope you're enjoying the easy stuff! We'll touch base again soon, but just wanted to let you know that things will start getting more difficult.

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Challenge 08 - HASH
UTC: 2025-12-23T12:00:00Z

Secret:

MFRWQ2LFOZSQ====
OZUXGYI=
MVXHG5LSMU======
OJ2W453BPE======
MFRHGZLOOQ======
M5WGC43T
MVXHI4TZ

Word of the Day Challenge URL: https://contest.hashpwn.net/claim/09fd71abc6aa9052d13a9909760787d5

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Challenge 08 - HINT
UTC: 2025-12-23T14:50:19Z

Spoiler

Another elf, another weird encoding. 3 2, 1, let's go figure it out!

PRO TIP from Santa's helper:
Are you making a Word of the Day list, and checking it twice?

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We had another sponsor join in on the fun and donate towards the Grand Prize. That brings the prize pot up to 0.158879 ETH... which is currently $464 USD!

It's not too late to join the fun and have a chance at winning the Grand Prize! Just make sure to go back and start from Challenge 01.

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If you want to view submission results for all posted Challenges, simply add "/completed" to the end of the Challenge URL.

More info on item 8: Challenge Submissions Results:
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/7149

Example: Challenge 01
https://contest.hashpwn.net/claim/74899148c5ae1382b2376e3e73efdaeb/completed

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Challenge 09 - HASH
UTC: 2025-12-24T00:00:00Z

Secret:

bcc9ea5faa417908ebe5c83bccfe92dbe0bd98ad88795941a187c9ae6e31fc57b4e8aeda1883c31ad1898a9f7fe1a2c5b8f31d273b2036bbbaf99c1dfad7bfff
40fb27d6433e0d0c8b1b5a27ce8e024327224f0d7bbed31acf57fc592c0a66a6b0ddcb62fcd8c55a2b04c555856e3dc352096d71df5ff149dbb0de274a8eab14
aa3ba2f4ed9eabe50ac2746c42befa9cfe446136e7282ea52685c8fcee5a911fe1a5e90212be0b49dfa5f118803b20484f26e21a4b4f19253c29fb723ca4d9de
52f92c36f7542c7b949f9a8ac1c5be83d85bd33d83045fb8e2311e7afe0839d12d9f011808ff89f3681f9fb8fa1eb0f6458b2b5d82b04c3d663b8f1bc7514183
f66b47460a7317857197ff08d15d3d283f0047805da770b9284aef0e0aa09d2f4ad46ef552766b1c9438eb09dba48417d0195d9c26bd53f374d724c70f11351d
1df6602ca8107352d40a357e29b1ad80be8e3780adfaf18fd494b898ad7a152a1c56849be40c754d4654310aad5726b22b7a9629050e67fa4c3ae2f598491be9

Word of the Day Challenge URL: https://contest.hashpwn.net/claim/839a9752f9d4b87b4aa25499da8fa144

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Challenge 09 - HINT
UTC: 2025-12-24T01:45:03Z

Spoiler

Great, it looks like the Grinch baked this cake on 500.