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Merlot Brougham posted:Not exactly how I remember it, but fair enough. I don't think that's how he actually exited either. Regardless, current discussion isn't about that past. We're onward and upward to treasure. I don't know what this means.
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No. Time is up on those offers.
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Urban Smurf posted:No. Time is up on those offers. The goons hurt his broke brain. 
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What am I looking for if I want to start digging? I get that its a box, but what would it look like? Is it a sealed tupperware? An urn?
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Piggy Smalls posted:The goons hurt his broke brain. Nope. I put my USD into ETH.
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solar energy panel posted:What am I looking for if I want to start digging? I get that its a box, but what would it look like? Is it a sealed tupperware? An urn? Second post of the thread. Enjoy!
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I've been lurking for quite some time on this thread and I've been mentally involved (to some degree) with this treasure hunt for about two years. I have a friend who lives in Milwaukee and when I went to visit him recently we walked around where the treasure is said to be. It was really interesting to see in person how the picture aligns with landmarks around the city. Truly a unique sort of experience. Now that the puzzle has a really well-defined solution proposed, it's interesting to know that we were basically right there (since that detailed solution wasn't posed yet at the time). I check the wiki (which I believe is the most commonly used wiki) often. It looks like they've got 5 of the puzzles nearly solved with proposed solutions. What comes next is some form of approval by a public entity in most cases. Regardless, my view of these puzzles is that people should err on the side of simplicity. I know that some puzzles were meant to be more difficult than others... but for example, the two solved puzzles each have outlines of the state where the treasure is located. My guess is that the proper state outline exists in each picture. For example... http://thesecret.pbworks.com/w/page/86302876/Image%2007 If you look at N9 in this picture... I'm pretty sure that is a rotated drawing of the state of Louisiana inside of the white/light wall square. That would help confirm (or at least provide evidence towards) the main idea that this treasure is in New Orleans. I haven't posted that on the wiki... but I'm nearly certain that's what's going on there. If this is true, then I bet the outline of each state is somewhere in each picture. That would help people confirm/deny their more complex solutions, and give precision and clarity to the search. Looking forward to continuing to lurk and to also post from time to time. This "hunt" is honestly such a unique concept, given the circumstances.
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EconDad posted:Now that the puzzle has a really well-defined solution proposed It does?
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EconDad posted:Regardless, my view of these puzzles is that people should err on the side of simplicity. That would mean no more Urban Smurf theories.
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Merlot Brougham posted:Turn tail from what, though? He got a bad rap, but I guess every thread needs a sacrificial lamb. Xie and I shared some theories back and forth once upon a time. At the end of the day, it was alright to discuss ideas with someone who could relate an image to a verse and have a good base with which to attack the puzzle. It wasn't a couple lofty offhand remarks, it was more than a year of being a coy little douche about how he totally located a cask and just needed to go dig it up with an ever expanding series of excuses like he broke his wrist digging a test hole, classes were too busy to dig a hole and that the ground was frozen two different winters because he dragged out his ball teasing "I've located a cask everyone" for a year. All of that was punctuated by loving nothing because he didn't find poo poo and hasn't been back despite posting endlessly about how he had really located a cask
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Too bad because that streetlamp ray-pattern match was unique among the theories tossed around as far as I know, and dead-on with the picture. He left out the final matches so someone couldn't try the solution before him so we don't know how good the final steps were but the stuff he did share was great as I recall.
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EconDad posted:I've been lurking for quite some time on this thread and I've been mentally involved (to some degree) with this treasure hunt for about two years. I have a friend who lives in Milwaukee and when I went to visit him recently we walked around where the treasure is said to be. It was really interesting to see in person how the picture aligns with landmarks around the city. Truly a unique sort of experience. Now that the puzzle has a really well-defined solution proposed, it's interesting to know that we were basically right there (since that detailed solution wasn't posed yet at the time). Cool, have you found state outlines in any other pictures?
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Waltzing Along posted:It does? Yeah. I think so. Unless the beginning of the proposed solution is way off... then I think this "walkthrough" of sorts holds water. Seems like it's a (large scale perhaps) dig away. http://thesecret.pbworks.com/w/page/103893375/Image%2010%20Verse%208%20Solution
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NotWearingPants posted:Cool, have you found state outlines in any other pictures? Not as of yet. I should probably (re)analyze the pictures to see if I come up with another state outline or two at least. If not, I'm completely open to my simplicity erring theory being incorrect... although I just can't imagine that Byron Priess meant to make this very difficult, given how he spoke about the proposed reason for the hunt. It wasn't meant to be an impossible hunt... but to help sell books, I think. Of course... intention doesn't always match reality.
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EconDad posted:Not as of yet. I should probably (re)analyze the pictures to see if I come up with another state outline or two at least. If not, I'm completely open to my simplicity erring theory being incorrect... although I just can't imagine that Byron Priess meant to make this very difficult, given how he spoke about the proposed reason for the hunt. It wasn't meant to be an impossible hunt... but to help sell books, I think. Of course... intention doesn't always match reality. He actually thought the puzzles were too easy and he expected they would be solved right away. It turns out he just wasn't very good at making up puzzles.
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HoAssHo posted:He actually thought the puzzles were too easy and he expected they would be solved right away. It turns out he just wasn't very good at making up puzzles. I can certainly see that. He's bad at making easily solvable puzzles. Good at making nigh impossible puzzles. Whenever I see a detailed city/street map with a relation to the picture and/or poem I either think it's incorrect (although it looks very correct usually) or Byron really didn't know how difficult he was making these puzzles.
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solar energy panel posted:What am I looking for if I want to start digging? I get that its a box, but what would it look like? Is it a sealed tupperware? An urn?  If these are just buried loose in the ground there is a good chance they'd be crumbled or deteriorated by now.
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solar energy panel posted:
I think they're in a plexiglass box, but might still be crushed
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They didn't even finish painting the casks to boot. What a poo poo show from the get go.
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EconDad posted:Yeah. I think so. Unless the beginning of the proposed solution is way off... then I think this "walkthrough" of sorts holds water. Seems like it's a (large scale perhaps) dig away. Is this brand new? Its the most impressive proposed solution Ive seen
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It seems a documentary could be made about this poo poo. Hell, if it is done right, you could probably convince some of these places to let you dig.
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EconDad posted:I've been lurking for quite some time on this thread and I've been mentally involved (to some degree) with this treasure hunt for about two years. I have a friend who lives in Milwaukee and when I went to visit him recently we walked around where the treasure is said to be. It was really interesting to see in person how the picture aligns with landmarks around the city. Truly a unique sort of experience. Now that the puzzle has a really well-defined solution proposed, it's interesting to know that we were basically right there (since that detailed solution wasn't posed yet at the time). That's great that you're taking a common element between the two solves and trying to apply it to the unsolved ones. That's like the first piece of advice in the OP so more power to you. However, I fear you might be wasting your time with the "states" strategy: With the exception of Milwaukee, there are coordinates hidden in every map. These, combined with the ample other hidden symbols, have allowed sleuths to pinpoint the locations to cities. That's not to say it wouldn't be a game changer if, say, you found an outline of Alaska hidden in the picture that is almost-universally believed to be New York, but I would definitely look to extrapolate another common element from the two solves. The key element that is missing from a lot of these is the exact point of the dig. Priess got too cryptic and also the two solves weren't really where the solvers thought they were (One was on the opposite side of a wall and the other was a few yards away). So figuring out stuff like what the hell "You'll see a letter from the country Of wonderstone's hearth On a proud, tall fifth" means could be the final piece to actually getting hands on one of these Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Herv posted:They didn't even finish painting the casks to boot. What a poo poo show from the get go. I'm worried some construction worker dug one up, assumed it was a kids high school art project and threw it out.
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Anyone else think J/K 5-9 is a sideways tree? http://thesecret.pbworks.com/w/page/86303014/Image%2010 Since the paired verse seems to indicate it's buried at the base of a tree, that knothole in the pic could be helpful if the trees hadn't been cut down leaving only stumps. Still, maybe someone can find an old picture?
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X marks the area of the spot, vaguely. Maybe.
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Wow Houston has a solve that seems pretty dead on. There is a hard path over where the casque probably is though http://thesecret.pbworks.com/w/page/103626363/Image%208%20Verse%201%20Solution Good news, though. Sam Houston may have owned slaves! So there's talk of removing a nearby memorial, and that could mean excavation machines on site. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Isn't one of the casques meant to be near here? Maybe he was trying to find it  Houston man charged with trying to plant bomb at Confederate statue in Hermann Park Schneck was arrested Saturday night after a Houston park ranger spotted him kneeling in bushes in front of the Dowling monument in the park, Martinez said. When confronted Saturday night in the park, he tried to drink some of the liquid explosives but spit it out, officials said. The ranger then asked if he planned to harm the statute, and he said he did because he did not "like that guy"
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EconDad posted:Yeah. I think so. Unless the beginning of the proposed solution is way off... then I think this "walkthrough" of sorts holds water. Seems like it's a (large scale perhaps) dig away. Very impressive, all the clues seem to just slide nicely into place, unlike solutions I've seen here for some of the other puzzles.
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Thinking about Milwaukee: I think he's dead on up until after the 92 steps. But it could diverge after that. There's five large bridges in Lake Park, it's not necessarily the concrete bridge. The Brick Arch bridge is probably too far north, the lion bridges too far south (although lion = Leo = tall, proud fifth is extremely tempting, Leo being the fifth zodiacal sign.) And the last few lines don't match up with anything visible. Could be that the obvious thing was destroyed in the last 35 years, but...  In between Lake Park Rd. and Ravine Rd. two bridges- the aforementioned concrete footbridge, and the steel arch bridge northwest of that, the left of the two green points up top: http://lakeparkfriends.org/wp-content/themes/divi-child/images/steel-arch-bridge-2.jpg I'm not currently in Wisconsin, but that picture makes it look like there's a culvert or something under it. But taking the same rough distance from the proposed solution's concrete bridge, and applying it to the steel arch bridge, gets you very close to this: http://lakeparkfriends.org/wp-content/themes/divi-child/images/american-war-mothers-plaque-1921.jpg Wonderstone is potentially rhyolite, a light-colored igneous rock. It's on a wonderstone-like hearth. American war mothers = proud. Dedicated in May = Fifth. Admittedly, not tall in the least. But, according to the plaque, there's trees nearby. Weaknesses: no connection between Grand 200 and getting you up to Lake Park Rd., 'tall' not accounted for. And if the steel bridge were it, the pattern on the woman's shawl should have matched it. But I'm adamant that this thing isn't going to be next to a tree. "Tall, proud fifth" has to be something different. I'd originally thought Generals, of which there's one in the park, further south: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erastus_B._Wolcott#/media/File:WolcottMonument1919.jpg But he's a one-star general, not a five-star. Welp, that's all I've got.
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There's nothing there. It's all garbage that's been thrown away by now.
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Big news posted by four21thrasher at Q4t: Josh and the crew of Expedition Unknown are releasing a 12-installment Podcast in coordination with James Renner exploring the puzzles within The Secret. You can access the first episode of James Renner's podcast at the following location: http://thesecretofbyronpreiss.com/podcast/shhh-the-secret-podcast-episode-1
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Yeah, I'm still on the hunt. I may have torn a tricep while carrying 75 lbs of kettle-bells to the counter of the sporting goods store, but I'll be back to shoveling soon.
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Urban Smurf posted:Yeah, I'm still on the hunt. I may have torn a tricep while carrying 75 lbs of kettle-bells to the counter of the sporting goods store, but I'll be back to shoveling soon. Don’t break your arm shoveling!
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Yearly check in. Anyone actually dig anything up yet?
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You have to listen to a podcast to find out
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Wobbulated posted:Yearly check in. Anyone actually dig anything up yet? Of course not.
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