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ante posted:Can someone summarize the last decade of thread for me please?! Nothing of value was found.
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ante posted:Can someone summarize the last decade of thread for me please?! The guy two posts up did it. People found Boston and probably New Orleans but it was shattered and it’s tough to say 100%. Boston was found though.
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BigFactory posted:The guy two posts up did it. People found Boston and probably New Orleans but it was shattered and it’s tough to say 100%. Boston was found though. The people who say Boston wasn't found... I really don't get it. The solve was good... the casque thing seemed to be found. I don't... get the naysaying whatsoever. Therefore it's become nearly impossible to care on any level anymore.
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ante posted:Can someone summarize the last decade of thread for me please?! A few flurries of actual discussion, a minority of it rational, and 12 years of people thinking they're funny when they revive the dead thread to announce that the real treasure was up their own rear end all along or whatever.
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Is the Houston one even worth trying to dig for anymore? There's been like 3 major hurricanes over that area in the 10 years since I last looked.
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homullus posted:A few flurries of actual discussion, a minority of it rational, and 12 years of people thinking they're funny when they revive the dead thread to announce that the real treasure was up their own rear end all along or whatever. You forgot the wrist injury. Is this the last active thread that was originally posted in GBS 1.0?
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So did we solve it?
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homullus posted:A few flurries of actual discussion, a minority of it rational, and 12 years of people thinking they're funny when they revive the dead thread to announce that the real treasure was up their own rear end all along or whatever. ... well, was it?
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EconDad posted:... well, was it? The real treasure was the friends we got to look up our rear end along the way.
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EconDad posted:... well, was it? I'm not going to risk my wrists checking asses
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Feb 9, 2023 06:45
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This thread rules
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homullus posted:I'm not going to risk my wrists checking asses thems diggin' wrists
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thanks for the updat urbansmurf. thanks for the funny posts everyone else. threads like this are what i love about SA and make me hope it carries on its in MY rear end
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I solved all the other riddles and dug up all the boxes last week, so you guys can stop looking. No I won't take pictures.
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Rondette posted:Nothing of value was found. Do you buy the Boston digsite location mate?
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Has anyone tried digging here
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Friend posted:Has anyone tried digging here Genius!
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(Walks into the thread, empties a large box of dirt, pottery shards, rocks and wood, glass and quartz fragments onto the table.) ALL REMAINING PUZZLES, SOLVED!!! (Hey, most of the not-already-found boxes have been mashed to the smeg by earth moving equipment by now, you can't expect pristine.)
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BigBadSteve posted:(Hey, most of the not-already-found boxes have been mashed to the smeg by earth moving equipment by now, you can't expect pristine.) Assuming people are right about where the Houston cask is buried, this is not entirely unlikely. Hell it might not have survived the 90s, or possibly made it TO the 90s.
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Wasn't Charleston determined to be in Ft. Sumter, where digging for buried casks is a federal crime now?
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The X-man cometh posted:Wasn't Charleston determined to be in Ft. Sumter, where digging for buried casks is a federal crime now? One of the clues in the picture for Cask 2 suggests Fort Sumter might be a landmark, but no it probably isn't actually buried there. Preiss would've gotten in deep poo poo if he'd tried to do that. Did anyone ever come up with a solve for Cask 2 or figure out which verse it went with?
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ante posted:Can someone summarize the last decade of thread for me please?! A key high point in the hilarity of this hunt happened after it was featured on a popular TV show. I tried to summarize it, here: https://www.somethingawful.com/news/crazy-treasure-hunt/
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Drunk Nerds posted:A key high point in the hilarity of this hunt happened after it was featured on a popular TV show. I tried to summarize it, here: There's a main page?
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Some goon broke his wrist and never returned lol
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Treecko posted:Some goon broke his wrist and never returned lol And that goon... that nobody liked... was named... *gasps* TEDDY ROOSEVELT?!?!
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did we find all the casques yet? Excellent! case closed!
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no not yet
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Me posting here got me back on the Wiki for a little bit 'ere, for the first time in awhile. I had a thought -- that I hadn't had before, and I'm not sure I've seen it written before, although I'm sure it's been said. Through all of this puzzle solving -- people are assuming both Priess and Palencar are perfect, and make no errors. But... in reality, at least these things could have happened anywhere. 1. Priess makes an error originally be it with what he writes, "researches", maps, whatever. 2. Priess makes an error in relaying info to Palencar. (like a bad game of telephone) 3. Palencar makes an error in receiving info from Priess (telephone game issues again) 4. Palencar makes an error in his paintings, even given proper info. All of the solutions seem to find these two people to be error-free, and almost superhuman in their ability to make no errors. Just something to think about perhaps... ---- P.S. I'm looking at the San Francisco "proposed solution" on the Wiki and I'm astonished at how convuluted this has become. The "flipping the map horizontally" and then "switching the hands on the picture" and then ... inserting the blue blocks into the map. It all seems impossibly convuluted and therefore, wrong. It has to be simpler. EconDad fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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I sprained my wrist on this thread, I probably would have found a cask otherwise.
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The wiki link in the OP seems to be broken again. http://secretwiki.tomburns.net/
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Help I broke my wrist!!
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I prefer to think the wrist was the break we made along the way.
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I watched the Expedition Unknown episode where they solved Cask 11 and apparently Preiss's family either got new gemstones to award people for solving the puzzles or salvaged the original ones when/after they got sold at auction. So the jewels are back. I admit I still gently caress with the idea of finding a piece of the Houston cask, but I don't think Houston has ever kept great maintenance records on their public spaces and Christ knows how much underground utility work Hermann Park in particular has gone through since 1982. Not to mention hurricanes. I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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Can't believe this got bumped with no proof that Urban Smurf was dug up hiding on a copy of Preisses book.
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writeup coming soon
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treasure bear posted:writeup coming soon Glad to hear we solved it.
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I. M. Gei posted:I watched the Expedition Unknown episode where they solved Cask 11 and apparently Preiss's family either got new gemstones to award people for solving the puzzles or salvaged the original ones when/after they got sold at auction. There was a solve that was decide on by the casque awardee that I have yet to see. It will be terrible when I find it as I know snippets. 0% score from me for being fundamentally wrong.
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Grab a shovel and go fish
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urbansmurf for president
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Cactus Ghost posted:urbansmurf for president Of my heart
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