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Here is a list of the stones I found at pbworks. Feel free to correct me if I got something wrong/debatable: 1 (SF) - Pearl 2 (Chaleston) - Diamond 3 (Roanoke) - Garnet 4 (Cleveland) - Aquamarine 5 (Chicago) - Emerald 6 (St. Augustine) - Sapphire 7 (New Orleans) - Turquoise 8 (Houston) - Ruby 9 (Montreal) - Opal 10 (Milwaukee) - Amethyst 11 (Boston) - Peridot 12 (New York) - Topaz Now we can figure out how much each was worth in 1981, rank them, and then work on the easiest/cheapest one
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pokemon garnet sucked
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Modern values I found by roughshod googling. 1 (SF) - Pearl $200-$500 2 (Chaleston) - Diamond $1,000-$20,000/kt 3 (Roanoke) - Garnet $500-$2000/kt 4 (Cleveland) - Aquamarine $100-$300/kt 5 (Chicago) - Emerald $500-$1100/kt 6 (St. Augustine) - Sapphire $1000-$2000/kt 7 (New Orleans) - Turquoise <$500 /kt 8 (Houston) - Ruby $300-$3000/kt 9 (Montreal) - Opal - Seems super hard to get even a wide range estimate. 10 (Milwaukee) - Amethyst Like $50/kt. 11 (Boston) - Peridot $50-$400/kt 12 (New York) - Topaz $200-$1500/kt Based on this guide, which admittedly does not take into account how large the actual Secret stone is, Tiers from least to most difficult would be: Tier Easiest 10 Milwaukee Tier Easy 1 SF 4 Cleveland 7 New Orleans 11 Boston Tier Medium 5 Chicago 12 New York Tier Hard 3 Roanoke 6 St Augustine 8 Houston Tier Hardest 2 Charleston Tier ??? 9 Montreal
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Jan 24, 2018 02:46
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Also, someone is spamming the Q4T secret board with 10 new threads claiming they solved each puzzle. Then, of course, they get super hostile about anyone who doubts them. Oh, and they won't reveal any of their final solves. Pretty entertaining: http://quest4treasure.co.uk/phpbb3/viewforum.php?f=32
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Jan 24, 2018 03:38
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Here's a random fact for you. When cleveland was solved they were given the st Aug sapphire instead of the aquamarine. Preiss screwed up, or didn't care enough to pay attention.
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Jan 24, 2018 04:24
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Oh man... that Q4T nonsense is a "treat". This Josh Cornell character likes to use all caps a lot. Interesting how it appears he's solved several of the puzzles that the entirety of individuals on the internet communicating with one another have not been able to do in years. I don't think I'm jumping to conclusions much here by saying that these new solves are likely a farce. The aggression doesn't help Josh Cornell's case at all.
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Jan 24, 2018 04:29
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EconDad posted:Oh man... that Q4T nonsense is a "treat". This Josh Cornell character likes to use all caps a lot. Interesting how it appears he's solved several of the puzzles that the entirety of individuals on the internet communicating with one another have not been able to do in years. I don't think I'm jumping to conclusions much here by saying that these new solves are likely a farce. The aggression doesn't help Josh Cornell's case at all. He's actually found some cool stuff: A door that matches the SF picture better than any I've seen (still not a great match though), a fun new solve with different elements. If he wasn't a standoffish, condescending weirdo he'd be getting some fans right now.
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Jan 24, 2018 04:51
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You are all mentally ill.
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Jan 24, 2018 05:10
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Drunk Nerds posted:He's actually found some cool stuff: A door that matches the SF picture better than any I've seen (still not a great match though), a fun new solve with different elements. Yeah, I'm sure I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt here... but it's hard to even go through his puzzles when he sports an attitude of that sort. He loses credibility instantly.
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Jan 24, 2018 05:29
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Sucrose posted:Same. Why is this thread still going? I’ve hidden a precious gem in my anus. I have sent you a visual clue via PM.
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Jan 24, 2018 05:35
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Let’s be real: does this guy come off as if he’s followed the thread here and is trying to high-effort antagonize the long-time folks?
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Jan 24, 2018 16:00
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Let’s be real: does this guy come off as if he’s followed the thread here and is trying to high-effort antagonize the long-time folks? He seems more like a guy who watched that tv episode, then read the wiki, and now he knows everything. He would have more interesting solves if he had come from here.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:47
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Cobalt60 posted:And with that post, the thread was great once again. He responded. He said he has a lot going on in his life right now, but would love to do an episode once things settle down a bit. I told him he could have free reign to pick a date and a topic. And I tried to make it clear that he would be treated with respect. I know some people think his ideas are nuts... but I like the way he thinks.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:50
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On the front page of GBS again, woohoo!!! Sadly I lack the time to read the last 84 posts, so would anyone tell me if any new treasure has been found? Also it'd be pretty funny if some joker proposed a solution, then secretly planted "treasure" there themselves and later dug it up.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:53
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BigBadSteve posted:Very impressive, all the clues seem to just slide nicely into place, unlike solutions I've seen here for some of the other puzzles. There was a solution worked out in this thread several years ago for the Charleston cask that fits perfectly with every detail of the puzzle and would give a very precise dig location by triangulating between the arms of specific statues in White Point Gardens park at the tip of the Charleston peninsula. The problem is, like a lot of other solutions, digging there without a permit would be a federal crime, and there's no way to get a permit unless you're an archaeologist doing an approved dig. Most of the remaining casks seem to fit that format -- there's some pretty decent theories out there, but they point to spots that are inaccessible for [reasons] or that have been extensively re-dug and re-landscaped in the intervening decades.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:58
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The problem is, like a lot of other solutions, digging there without a permit would be a federal crime, and there's no way to get a permit unless you're an archaeologist doing an approved dig. OK so we need an archaeologist?
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Herv posted:OK so we need an archaeologist?
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Jan 24, 2018 20:14
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The thing about that is if you have the right location, digging will be easy. Preiss wouldn't have backfilled the hole with rocks which would have damaged his plexiglass box and even after almost 35 years the soil wouldn't be much more compacted.
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Jan 24, 2018 20:23
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CrashCat posted:Down that path lies broken wrists, don't bother. Seriously though, what does an archaeologist make? Like 40k a year? I'm putting up a $50 gift card, and two large pizzas. Also, Burnstyle please get JoshCornell on the podcast! 
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Jan 24, 2018 20:29
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hemale in pain posted:The only people who are qualified to find this treasure is the curse of oak island guys The plot synopses for this show are hilarious quote:Drilling below bedrock, the team discovers a void in the rock. A hose on the drill detaches resulting in a worker falling backward and suffering a minor injury to his wrist. Drilling is halted for over a week. quote:Part of a metal spoon and round rocks are discovered under tree stumps. Based on the rocks and the spoon pieces, Marty Lagina concludes that "something must have happened here".
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Jan 24, 2018 21:26
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Herv posted:Seriously though, what does an archaeologist make? Like 40k a year?
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BattleHamster posted:The plot synopses for this show are hilarious You missed a good one quote:A theory is presented that Sir Francis Drake is buried on Oak Island in a vault with gold treasure. It is suggested that the lack of any records documenting Drake travelling to Canada is proof that he must have travelled to Canada
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Jan 24, 2018 21:52
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For Oak Island, why haven't they figured it out yet? Seems like if there was something to be found, it would have been by now.
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Jan 24, 2018 22:32
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BigBadSteve posted:Also it'd be pretty funny if some joker proposed a solution, then secretly planted "treasure" there themselves and later dug it up. That's brilliant; I can tell you that the NY sculptress JoEllen Trilling who made the casques had a spare kicking around somewhere, and maybe she'd be prepared to sell it. Smash it up, rub some dirt into it, and that should withstand any scrutiny.
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Herv posted:
Seconded, but I would advise getting him as a phone interview. It's you, isn't it Herv? You damned troll
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Waltzing Along posted:For Oak Island, why haven't they figured it out yet? Seems like if there was something to be found, it would have been by now. We have an Oak Island thread over in TV:IV https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3838995 Supposedly the original treasure hunters found the pit and booby traps filled it with seawater before they could get the gold. Then for 100+ years people dug the place up before some guy in the 1960s tore up the entire island with heavy equipment digging gigantic pits everywhere before he ran out of money and bulldozed everything back flat. This supposedly lost all of the vital landmarks and original locations of everything. They say nobody has ever found the treasure because their theory is that some organization like the Knights Templar conducted excavations hundreds of feet deep and after the destruction by treasure hunters on the surface there would be no way to know where to actually dig anymore. I will give the guys credit, they actually seem to be trying to find treasure. Since the 1960s it was basically one guy spending decades drilling a shaft in a random place down 200 feet deep and finding a cavern and swearing he located a bunch of man-made objects inside of it. In the past few years they've upgraded from drilling a few small holes in random places, to drilling shafts wide enough for divers to go down in random places, to drilling a targeted grid of smaller holes over the entire area to now targeting the giant diver shafts. Whether anything was there in the first place is another matter. So far they just keep hitting caverns and the only thing interesting that has happened in the past 5 seasons is recently when they started pulling up things like human bones, pottery, book binding and parchment from depths deeper than anyone has supposedly ever dug there. I wouldn't recommend watching the show because 95% of every episode is some random person coming on and talking about some random theory and then some people go to a museum to listen to a history lesson about some rando rear end in a top hat who totally could have done (____________.) They pay very little attention to the actual excavations (i assume because they never find anything) and seem to ignore some things they find. My biggest issue was "The Shiny Gold Thing" where they located an "obviously man made golden object" in the wall of a new cavern two years ago with a lovely camera. The next year they dug a huge shaft down to it and the diver supposedly located it but couldn't retrieve it. So they never bothered diving or mentioning it again. This played out over like 30+ episodes too so it's a huge waste of time and they are either super incompetent or they know nothing was there because as presented the proof for all of their theories is supposedly just sitting there and they don't seem to care about it.
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There's almost certainly nothing to actually find on Oak Island and the "Money Pit" is just a natural sinkhole. Any artifacts they pull up from that hole are just things left behind by the other hundred or so groups who hosed around with the drat pit.
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I'm familiar with the basics on oak island. I'm just surprised they are still going. It's like no one ever said "if we can't get down there, how the hell did XXX group/person with a poo poo load of $$$ get down there and hide it?" The whole thing is dumb.
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 Attention all of GBS, lovers of The Secret and shitposters alike So, apparently someone on Q4T looked it up, and JoshCornell, who has been spamming vitriol all over the boards (including an awesome thread where he asks if he can stay on someone's couch while searching for the N.O. cask, then curses out everyone who responds)... he's got a rap album. I couldn't find it yet, but I did find this under "Josh Cornell": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8OWdPBNiRw
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Jan 26, 2018 05:02
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thanks for your service o7 
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Drunk Nerds posted:
please explain this post before i punish you severely
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Jose posted:please explain this post before i punish you severely On the main site for this 35-year-old treasure hunt (Q4T), someone has been displaying an entertainingly abusive brand of mental illness. For instance, they asked if they could stay on someone's couch while searching for the new orleans thread, then responded to every query about why he thought that appropriate with a slew of cursing. He also keeps derailing any conversation about the search with either severe derision or "nope, already found this one, stop wasting your time," but refuses to share any solutions. He started ~15 new threads in a small forum and utterly garbaged up the boards. People assumed he was trolling, and probably from this SA thread, so several people googled his username and found that, no, he actually has a youtube account under an exact same username, and is actually proof of Poe's law. So I linked the video here for closure to this "is he a troll from SA or isn't he, saga?" and because, wow, this guy is being a jerk so let's mock him from a distance. Even if you don't follow this treasure hunt, you should hop on over to The Secret on Q4T and check it out, it's really something. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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... whoever "Goldengate" is on Q4T.... I'm getting some serious joy out of reading his JoshCornell take-downs.
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ok thats a good enough explanation for me not to do anything
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTm93YztSg
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Further proof that the treasure is actually a powerful curse that drives all who seek it mad
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People on a treasure hunting forum talk about this thread that goes nowhere? That’s the weirdest part of all that.
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Snowy posted:People on a treasure hunting forum talk about this thread that goes nowhere? That’s the weirdest part of all that. It probably has more treasure than the ground at this point, and in only slightly worse condition
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Snowy posted:People on a treasure hunting forum talk about this thread that goes nowhere? That’s the weirdest part of all that. They're never gonna find anything so they might as well.
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Maybe the question now should be which brand of mental illness will actualize a real find? I hope to address that and other questions in the podcast.
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