bitGAN Puzzle Book

the prize
The bitGAN Act 1 Glitch Puzzle

Eleven glitches hide a wallet key.

The prize: #445 “Magic Internet moneyGAN” — and the crypto wallet it unlocks.
Artist Pindar Van Arman made 512 animated pixel-art creatures called bitGANs. Hidden inside the collection is the 12-word recovery phrase to a crypto wallet holding the prize. Eleven of the twelve words come from “glitches” — pieces Pindar broke on purpose. The twelfth is random.

This site is the full research record: every piece and its tags, every glitch found, every idea for turning pieces into words and ordering them, and every attempt tested. It must be solved from the collection itself — Pindar has said no more clues are coming.

Everything from Pindar — the only official intel

⬇ master spreadsheet

The definitions of the whole taxonomy — every tag, grouped into families. Each tag lists its plain-language definition, how many pieces carry it, and which broader tags fully contain it (the nesting). Jump to a section, or click a tag to see its pieces.

Extraction — ideas for how a chosen piece becomes one seed word.

Ordering — ideas for what order the eleven words go in.

Every idea we've tried for solving the puzzle, in plain language: what we thought a glitch was, how we picked the pieces, how we tested it, and what happened. A "ruled out" means that one recipe failed against the real wallet — never that the glitch itself is disproven.

Automated sweep log

Each row is a batch of full seed-phrase guesses checked against the wallet, with a planted control to prove the checker works.