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Post by Jenny on Aug 10, 2019 7:01:28 GMT -5
Heidini: undoubtedly. Forrest puts out conundrums and aberrations with abandon, probably knowing it will drive searchers crazy and send them in a hundred different directions. Recall Forrest's little trick of deliberately saying something wrong when conversing with old Native Americans as a clever means of drawing them out. Forrest seems to be doing the same with us: screwing up the Hemingway novels, suggesting Robert Redford has never written a book, altering song lyrics and bumper sticker quotes, subtlely changing poems and famous sayings, and misspelling the names of at least a dozen different prominent people. Could it all just be marketing buzz? This I know he does....
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Post by davebakedpotato on Aug 12, 2019 16:25:37 GMT -5
Conscious this thread has gone off track, but another mark against the crapshoot theory - the redneck who's been made redundant. Is Forrest expecting them to burn through their cash investigating myriad starting points?
I don't like to be too dogmatic, but I just can't buy into that.
If I did, I would give up immediately.
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Post by davebakedpotato on Aug 12, 2019 16:32:43 GMT -5
...how do you follow 9 clues 'precisely' if one of them has thousands of answers?..
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Post by Jenny on Aug 12, 2019 17:01:24 GMT -5
Which brings us also to the question ....why don't you know you have the correct WWWH until you find the Chest? or why didn't those searchers who 'solved the first two clues' continue and find the Chest? Most likely because while they had 'solved the first clues', they really didn't 'know' they did.....
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Post by omni on Aug 12, 2019 21:52:05 GMT -5
...how do you follow 9 clues 'precisely' if one of them has thousands of answers?.. You find the place where all the other clues line up too.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 13, 2019 0:18:18 GMT -5
...how do you follow 9 clues 'precisely' if one of them has thousands of answers?.. You don't. You solve the starting point, and KNOW it's right, irrespective of the proof that finding the treasure would provide.
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Post by davebakedpotato on Aug 13, 2019 0:21:20 GMT -5
Putting Jenny's and Omni's posts together - they went BOTG too early?
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Post by davebakedpotato on Aug 13, 2019 0:23:32 GMT -5
...how do you follow 9 clues 'precisely' if one of them has thousands of answers?.. You don't. You solve the starting point, and KNOW it's right, irrespective of the proof that finding the treasure would provide. I'm more inclined to this, go get the chest Zaph!
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 13, 2019 0:29:05 GMT -5
You don't. You solve the starting point, and KNOW it's right, irrespective of the proof that finding the treasure would provide. I'm more inclined to this, go get the chest Zaph! Unfortunately, DaveBurntSpud, knowing the starting point is not sufficient. Plenty of searchers have solved the starting point (some over 5 years ago!), and the treasure is still out there.
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Post by omni on Aug 13, 2019 1:29:52 GMT -5
Putting Jenny's and Omni's posts together - they went BOTG too early? Could be a variety of things. Could be it was just solve 501 of 1000 so they didn't go over it very well. None of them knew they had solved the first 2 clues so why spend time on that one and not move on to other ones? I think the way most everyone sees this in their head is not the way it plays out in the field. Even having the correct WWWH and the right 'canyon down' doesn't just take you right to the treasure...at least not without extra clue solving in the field. Most everyone just thinks once you have the right starting point all the stars will align and you'll just go right to the chest. And most everyone is wrong IMO.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 13, 2019 20:07:35 GMT -5
Hi Omni: I think you have to solve all the clues before you leave home. It is the only way you can move with confidence with a smile on your face to the treasure's location. Recall that when asked how many clues could be solved sitting at home on your computer: "All of them in theory..." Yes, Forrest then followed that with a comma and "but not in practice." But you have to consider what it means that Forrest admits it is actually "theoretically" possible to solve all the clues without putting BOTG.
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Post by omni on Aug 13, 2019 23:33:49 GMT -5
Hi Omni: I think you have to solve all the clues before you leave home. It is the only way you can move with confidence with a smile on your face to the treasure's location. Recall that when asked how many clues could be solved sitting at home on your computer: "All of them in theory..." Yes, Forrest then followed that with a comma and "but not in practice." But you have to consider what it means that Forrest admits it is actually "theoretically" possible to solve all the clues without putting BOTG. He admits it because in theory just about anything is possible. Forrest has said that Google Earth can not help you with the last clue, so my guess would be that clues 1-8 at best can be solved from home. As far as what he intended, I think it was that you would go BOTG from HOB and solve the rest from there...not realizing that technology can put us practically there on our computers.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 14, 2019 0:47:56 GMT -5
Just because Google Earth can't help you with the last clue doesn't mean a searcher can't solve it. The "answer" to the clue (solved at home) might still require a physical presence to visually spot that answer.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 14, 2019 0:49:55 GMT -5
Also be mindful of Forrest's distinction between a "general solve" and a "correct solve." I won't leave home with a general solve.
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Post by omni on Aug 14, 2019 12:00:43 GMT -5
Just because Google Earth can't help you with the last clue doesn't mean a searcher can't solve it. The "answer" to the clue (solved at home) might still require a physical presence to visually spot that answer. I'm about 80% sure I know, generally speaking, what the last clue is referring to, and about 75% sure I know exactly what it is. But I don't think it's a clue that can be 'solved' definitively from home. You can only have guesses until you get there.
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