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Post by kpro on Apr 9, 2017 16:45:18 GMT -5
I have heard there are two versions of the book and some (one?) claims to have it. One pre print and one final print.
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Post by Karen on Apr 9, 2017 19:58:40 GMT -5
There was an advance copy version that was sent to reviewers before the hunt officially launched, with different numbers, names, etc. from the final published version. There is a guy who said he had both and had done an analysis of the differences between the two and was selling his research.
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Post by astree on Apr 13, 2017 7:32:38 GMT -5
Is anyone else still working this puzzle?
No media posts for the last month, and the Facebook page has been quite quiet.
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Post by minotaurmoreno on Apr 13, 2017 8:59:46 GMT -5
Is anyone else still working this puzzle? No media posts for the last month, and the Facebook page has been quite quiet. I'm still in it to win it.
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Post by brambler on Apr 13, 2017 11:49:57 GMT -5
I still take half an hour here or there to read through parts of it or try and work out hodaddy or nadathings. I do agree that coverage of it has been pretty quiet lately.
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Post by astree on Apr 13, 2017 14:50:25 GMT -5
I still take half an hour here or there to read through parts of it or try and work out hodaddy or nadathings. I do agree that coverage of it has been pretty quiet lately.
The issue I have, that causes me to spent a lot of time, is that Pete implied (or outright said?) that clues were throughout the book, and that we need to read between the lines.
Many of the pages have multiple possible clues, some seem quite well confirmed, so the task is overwhelming
Way too much information. In "The Thrill of the Chase", the entire puzzle is limited to a poem - 166 words. In "Fandango", it's limited to illustrations.
I have concentrated some effort on the "obvious" clues in the book: Hodaddy, Et4ue ... , nada... , the poem, ... and come up with exact locations. But it isit not clear if these are red herrings, and the real clues are hidden elsewhere.
It seems a bit flippant, that the main character, Nels solved the clues almost immediately while the rest of them had already spent parts of two days and only Lane seems to have figured it out (per Nels' thinking).
Crazy, huh?
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Post by brambler on Apr 13, 2017 16:30:41 GMT -5
I still take half an hour here or there to read through parts of it or try and work out hodaddy or nadathings. I do agree that coverage of it has been pretty quiet lately.
The issue I have, that causes me to spent a lot of time, is that Pete implied (or outright said?) that clues were throughout the book, and that we need to read between the lines.
Many of the pages have multiple possible clues, some seem quite well confirmed, so the task is overwhelming
Way too much information. In "The Thrill of the Chase", the entire puzzle is limited to a poem - 166 words. In "Fandango", it's limited to illustrations.
I have concentrated some effort on the "obvious" clues in the book: Hodaddy, Et4ue ... , nada... , the poem, ... and come up with exact locations. But it isit not clear if these are red herrings, and the real clues are hidden elsewhere.
It seems a bit flippant, that the main character, Nels solved the clues almost immediately while the rest of them had already spent parts of two days and only Lane seems to have figured it out (per Nels' thinking).
Crazy, huh?
Yeah, it does seem pretty crazy. How are those clues formulated by the group for Nels to so easily solve? Why/how would it suddenly all make sense to him? What does he immediately recognize when he sees them? I've tried connecting them to gigolos (lol) and the Kentucky derby and the other subjects from that list of his writing to no avail. What else do we know about Nels besides the fact he's a rabid Tea drinker and alcohol guzzler that may not be clearly implied throughout the story?
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Post by astree on Apr 14, 2017 5:56:29 GMT -5
Yeah, it does seem pretty crazy. How are those clues formulated by the group for Nels to so easily solve? Why/how would it suddenly all make sense to him? What does he immediately recognize when he sees them? I've tried connecting them to gigolos (lol) and the Kentucky derby and the other subjects from that list of his writing to no avail. What else do we know about Nels besides the fact he's a rabid Tea drinker and alcohol guzzler that may not be clearly implied throughout the story?
His name has an anagram for a city.
Nels went to Babbitt High School, and there was a string of e.g., B.B.B.B.B.T that looks like the book title ... B.T.B.
Nels Ware ... where
There was a line where Nels wrote "they froze in SILENCE" which is an anagram for NELS ICE.
NELS is an anagram for LENS.
Hope something in this ramble helps.
edit: You mentioned the Kentucky Derby. I had several pieces of information pointing to the state of Kentucky, such as Buffalo Trace bourbon.
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Post by brambler on Apr 14, 2017 12:48:00 GMT -5
Yeah, it does seem pretty crazy. How are those clues formulated by the group for Nels to so easily solve? Why/how would it suddenly all make sense to him? What does he immediately recognize when he sees them? I've tried connecting them to gigolos (lol) and the Kentucky derby and the other subjects from that list of his writing to no avail. What else do we know about Nels besides the fact he's a rabid Tea drinker and alcohol guzzler that may not be clearly implied throughout the story?
His name has an anagram for a city.
Nels went to Babbitt High School, and there was a string of e.g., B.B.B.B.B.T that looks like the book title ... B.T.B.
Nels Ware ... where
There was a line where Nels wrote "they froze in SILENCE" which is an anagram for NELS ICE.
NELS is an anagram for LENS.
Hope something in this ramble helps.
edit: You mentioned the Kentucky Derby. I had several pieces of information pointing to the state of Kentucky, such as Buffalo Trace bourbon.
Babbitt appears on the Facebook page along with a few other towns/cities. I find the fact that he says, "and that isn't a clue about anything" when referencing Buffalo Trace at the very beginning pretty interesting. Then, shortly after, he shows anagrams of Buffalo Trace. So is he using Buffalo Trace as a way to reveal other clues to us throughout the text or is it more important and pointing to Kentucky? Just thoughts.
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Post by astree on Apr 14, 2017 13:02:58 GMT -5
I had looked at this when I first went through the book. When I mirror " into my soul" ... I get something like LOUSY IM NOT , where LOUSY is a word used elsewhere, and looks like LOUSI-ANA.
I'm not getting strong hits on Kentucky yet, just some weak ones.
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Post by toppop on Apr 16, 2017 19:17:32 GMT -5
The issue I have, that causes me to spent a lot of time, is that Pete implied (or outright said?) that clues were throughout the book, and that we need to read between the lines.
Many of the pages have multiple possible clues, some seem quite well confirmed, so the task is overwhelming
Way too much information. In "The Thrill of the Chase", the entire puzzle is limited to a poem - 166 words. In "Fandango", it's limited to illustrations.
I have concentrated some effort on the "obvious" clues in the book: Hodaddy, Et4ue ... , nada... , the poem, ... and come up with exact locations. But it isit not clear if these are red herrings, and the real clues are hidden elsewhere.
It seems a bit flippant, that the main character, Nels solved the clues almost immediately while the rest of them had already spent parts of two days and only Lane seems to have figured it out (per Nels' thinking).
Crazy, huh?
Yeah, it does seem pretty crazy. How are those clues formulated by the group for Nels to so easily solve? Why/how would it suddenly all make sense to him? What does he immediately recognize when he sees them? I've tried connecting them to gigolos (lol) and the Kentucky derby and the other subjects from that list of his writing to no avail. What else do we know about Nels besides the fact he's a rabid Tea drinker and alcohol guzzler that may not be clearly implied throughout the story?
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Post by toppop on Apr 16, 2017 19:19:26 GMT -5
IMHO,you have not read to the end, there is no treasure, his friends set up a fake treasure hunt, they created the clues..... theres more, read on.
On re reading your post maybe you know that?
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Post by brambler on Apr 16, 2017 19:59:58 GMT -5
IMHO,you have not read to the end, there is no treasure, his friends set up a fake treasure hunt, they created the clues..... theres more, read on. On re reading your post maybe you know that? I've definitely read the whole book all the way through more than once and know how it ends. I'm saying, that if we can figure out how they created the clues so that Nels could understand them so well, that it would make it easier for us to solve them.
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Post by astree on Apr 17, 2017 6:24:24 GMT -5
I've definitely read the whole book all the way through more than once and know how it ends. I'm saying, that if we can figure out how they created the clues so that Nels could understand them so well, that it would make it easier for us to solve them. I haven't been able to get any traction on that approach yet. The friends used novels (books) he had read during the last month, and articles he had written (if I recall, need to review that). This is one reason I was taking a look at "The Murder in Chapter Six" (thread) - it was too specific for that section of the book, thought there might be something there.
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Post by troye on Apr 17, 2017 8:35:04 GMT -5
His name has an anagram for a city.
Nels went to Babbitt High School, and there was a string of e.g., B.B.B.B.B.T that looks like the book title ... B.T.B.
Nels Ware ... where
There was a line where Nels wrote "they froze in SILENCE" which is an anagram for NELS ICE.
NELS is an anagram for LENS.
Hope something in this ramble helps.
edit: You mentioned the Kentucky Derby. I had several pieces of information pointing to the state of Kentucky, such as Buffalo Trace bourbon.
Babbitt appears on the Facebook page along with a few other towns/cities. I find the fact that he says, "and that isn't a clue about anything" when referencing Buffalo Trace at the very beginning pretty interesting. Then, shortly after, he shows anagrams of Buffalo Trace. So is he using Buffalo Trace as a way to reveal other clues to us throughout the text or is it more important and pointing to Kentucky? Just thoughts. Immediately after the "and that isn't a clue about anything" he puts "other than perhaps a mirror into my soul", which I believe the normal saying is "window into my soul" Any thoughts?
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