Post by efanton on Sept 17, 2019 21:44:56 GMT -5
I fully agree. I owe a better explanation on why this solution felt wrong to me. Here are my motivations.
2. The mini-hunt solution. All the facts in that hunt are based on things that are known to most in US/Europe I would assume. Nothing odd at all. Windsor castle, Shakespeare? You get my point?
3. The videos with the foreign language (greek most likely) indicated (to me) that had something to do with the X. I highly doubt that we are supposed to understand what were said on those videos. He said once that the hunt is based on general knowledge and being able to find information. Understanding greek is a bit different if you ask me.
That said, you did a great job putting together this stanza. My solution, at the time, and still, is more towards an eagle when it comes to the bird part (in relation to frisbee golf). Also, as I mentioned in my long forgotten post, there is this $1000 dollar bill from 1918 that is still legal tender and a rarity (but was featured on TV not that long ago) which is the only bill in the US (or one of the few) that actually feature the dollar sign. None of the current one does (!). And if you flip that bill over you see a beautiful eagle with $1000 on each side... Spare no expense (grand), search everywhere ($ is wildcard sometimes) and so on...
2. The mini-hunt solution. All the facts in that hunt are based on things that are known to most in US/Europe I would assume. Nothing odd at all. Windsor castle, Shakespeare? You get my point?
3. The videos with the foreign language (greek most likely) indicated (to me) that had something to do with the X. I highly doubt that we are supposed to understand what were said on those videos. He said once that the hunt is based on general knowledge and being able to find information. Understanding Greek is a bit different if you ask me.
Finally are you suggesting that Greek history or the Greek myths cannot be used? I'm sure even the average American has enough geographic and historic knowledge to know where Greece is, the basics of ancient history and some understanding of who Zeus and the other Greek gods were. I know Americans can be the butt of many a joke when it comes to history and geography but that is stereo-typing and most reasonable people such as myself understand Americans are not dumb or stupid when it comes basic history or geography. Would you object to Lukas using the pyramids in Egypt or the Incan temples in Peru as a location in a hunt because they are not in America or the UK and the culture was different to your own?
To use your own arguments how would someone in the UK or Ireland be expected to know about some obscure American bank note that probably most american would know about unless they googled it. Yet I would still agree it would be a valid item to use in a hunt because although they wouldn't know that information, the information they would need is there if they only googled it. I doubt many Americans would know about a county in England called Berkshire but yet Lukas still used it in the mini hunt.
I'm not sold on your Dollar sign idea, but I will not dismiss it. That would be ridiculous because you cant prove a negative, but I fail to see how it makes any progress to a solution. Dollar signs are literally everywhere on the web, how does it narrow the search?
But I fail to see how every single line in stanza 4 fits.
The next plus two is found
- Are there three dollar signs on the note?
Astride a treasure on its own
- I assume there is a dollar sign either side of the eagle. Would you consider an American eagle to be treasure if you were not American?
Spare no expense, search everywhere
- spare no expense, I get the $1000 dollar reference, but search everywhere? What are you searching for and where. If you dont know about that particular banknote you dont know what you are searching for, how would you possibly use google to get that information without prior knowledge?. the idea presupposes prior knowledge of that particular historic note, something that someone from the UK or elsewhere in the world would not have, but if you did know about it why would you be searching everywhere.
Beside a bird that’s rarely thrown -Eagle being thrown? The wording is off, golf balls are not thrown, and if you want to use idea that a large value bank note is never thrown away surely you would word it completely different.
Having argued that, can I say you are wrong, or what you have come up with is irrelevant or absurd. Absolutely not, its possible that you could be right, there would be no way to prove you wrong unless I actually had the solution and had submitted a winning entry.
The real reason I resurrected this thread is the latest hint
The location of many buried treasures
is marked by an X
This treasure is no different
X marks the spot."
is marked by an X
This treasure is no different
X marks the spot."
Now is the hint only relevant to stanza 4, or could it be a hint for the URL or website that we need to get to in order to use the two keys? I dont know at the moment I doubt any of us does know.
There is no doubt the 'X' is significant, but I cant see how it could be incorporated into a URL. WWW.X.COM WWW.X.ORG X.SOMETHING.COM. It would be relatively easy to test every possible domain that contained a X on its own, for €20 you can buy lists of every domain registered, so knowing that I doubt Lukas has done that.
Which brings us back to where or how he could use 'X marks the spot' The obvious answer is we looks at maps that have an X on it. I have found one. Is it the only X on google maps, google earth or Bing maps, no, but it is the only one relatively close to Turkey
There are other possibilities that I have considered. Airports generally have two runways forming an X. The number of airports in the world is truly staggering, ask me how I know about that after trying to compile a list of them.
Intersecting roads are simply out of the question, but intersecting waterways might be a possibility. I started on that and gave up after I realised that again the list would be overwhelming
A glutton for punishment I thought place names beginning with an X might be an idea. Again far more than I ever considered.
If someone could give a convincing argument as to how the hint given by Lukas does not relate to a map, be it google maps, google earth, Bing maps, or some other online site that has maps then I would happily give up the idea that the google maps location I posted is probably not relevant. I have wracked my brains now a few days and can see no other context for that hint.