Kusto Detective Agency Season 2 — Case #8 Badge

Walk Through Guide for Kusto Detective Agency Season 2, Case #8 Solution

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It gets juicy! 🧃

The eighth case riddle is:

The key takeaways from the riddle:

1. We’re again on the hunt for cyber-evil mastermind Krypto who now runs in Barcelona

1.1. For 3–4 times a week

1.2. For 8–12 km

2. We’re given a decrypted message

⚠SPOILER ALERT — THE SOLUTION DESCRIBED BELOW⚠

Note: Solution is mine, and non-official

Let’s first look at the encrypted message code:

[1, ?, ?, 4,

?, 7, 6, ?,

8, ?, 10, 5,

?, 2, ?, 15]

Well, this looks like Magic Square, where each of the rows, columns and diagonals sums to the same number.

The main diagonal sums to 33, so let’s leverage it to find the missing numbers and decrypt:

This as well exists at the passion façade of the Sagardia La Familia:

Zooming in we see the magic square:

And even more clearly from Sagardia La Familia Blog:

We now have more takeaways on Krypto:

1. Runs with 2 additional bodyguards out of a bodyguards team
2. Likes juice
3. Ran once at least 10 km

It’s time to leverage all of our knowledge to find the solution.

So let’s delve into the data, by leveraging the | take 10, to see some rows.

The Runs table has; Timestamp, RunnerID, Distance, Duration, StartLat, StartLon.

We have luck again, the first link shows the juice place:

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