bitGAN Puzzle Book

The Act 1 Glitch Puzzle

Artist Pindar Van Arman hid the 12-word seed phrase to a prize wallet inside his 512-piece bitGAN collection. His only clue: "The seed phrase is 11 glitches ending with a random word." Eleven words come from "glitches" — pictures broken on purpose. This site is the living research record: every piece, every confirmed glitch, every idea for turning pieces into words and ordering them, and every hypothesis we test.

Browse the Collection for the pieces and their confirmed glitches, the Glitch Types for the tag system, Principles for how we pick pieces / derive words / order them, and Hypotheses for what we've tested.

The tag system — every glitch concept, its status, definition, and the pieces that carry it. Click a piece to open it.

How we try to solve it: selection (who are the eleven), extraction (how a piece becomes a word), ordering (how the eleven line up).

Every hypothesis we've run against the real wallet. Plant-validated; a negative kills one selection×extraction×ordering combination, never the glitch itself.