Prepare - Uncover - Outwit - Find - WIN!

The 7th Steemit Crypto Challenge is over and we are happy to announce the winners:
Congratulations @anduweb and @spiz0r!

You followed your intuition and stayed on the right track. Solving the puzzle you saved your reward. 75 Steem goes to each of you.

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Solution

Here is a breakthrough, showing step by step what you had to do in order to solve the crypto-puzzle.

The two given hints were:

Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed
1:5,2:1,3:3,4:7,5:8,7:1
and
194348662X
EnCt2c7c09c257615912a1be396241d6b1da822853385c7c09c257615912a1be396240XwLbbvDuAJ d3yZyBlgXDZarrDUSOf8KDg7lgPlfdjTYqXb33QyJqz8J321xsJiT7Z3uuqModkgHIwEmS
Decrypt it at https://encipher.it
send me what you got in the chat

User @anduweb found out that Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed is a quote from one of Dan Brown's books. However it was so far unknown to him how to use this part of the first hint 1:5,2:1,3:3,4:7,5:8,7:1

194348662X is the ISB number of the book we were speaking and this is where the actual code has to be applied:
First row:fifth word, second row:first word, third row: third word, fourth row:seventh word etc.
Following this pattern they found out the password for the encrypted sequence:
EnCt2c7c09c257615912a1be396241d6b1da822853385c7c09c257615912a1be396240XwLbbvDuAJ d3yZyBlgXDZarrDUSOf8KDg7lgPlfdjTYqXb33QyJqz8J321xsJiT7Z3uuqModkgHIwEmS
The password is: once of score the book gave

Leading to the following image:

@anduweb and @spiz0r needed quite a bit of time to figure out what this actually is and means.
Spiz0r finally came to the conclusion that this is a magical square and solved it.

Source: Wikipedia
Instead of taking the reward of 100 Steem alone, he decided to share it with anduweb.
Because of him being to generous and kind I decided to make the final reward 150 Steem so both get a decent prize.

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Great work and congratulations to the winners and all who participated. Don't miss the next Steemit Crypto Challenge and be prepared.

Tim Said