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Post by astree on Jul 20, 2017 17:41:35 GMT -5
What was the significance of Lane "chanting" the Hodaddy clue before he solved it? Chanting seems to indicate a beat, rhythm, or syllable code. The chanting seemed to pair with the rap of the "nada" clue.
I understand how writing in on the shower door in the steam could be a (very weak) connection to Hot Springs. However, it indicates more of a possible backwards read, or something else than the relation of steam and hot water.
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Post by astree on Jul 20, 2017 17:57:57 GMT -5
www.facebook.com/BreakfastTeaandBourbon/Deborah Stephenson If you do follow up with another hunt (or two) how will the chapter releases be handled? I mean is this something else we have to buy or will you do it here on facebook or in emails to those of us who already bought the book for the original hunt? Also, what will the "treasure" be next time? (Probably not another $50,000, but will it be a monetary prize?) Yesterday at 8:28am Breakfast Tea and Bourbon I don't know all of the answers at this point. I expect the prize will be substantial as it was this time. Yesterday at 9:26am
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Post by astree on Jul 20, 2017 18:37:48 GMT -5
Anyone care to share their solutions for the Hodaddy, Nadatrace, or Et mysteries? I tried taking the Et line and ran it through cipher solver programs and apps. It did not work with any ciphers like Playfair or any others. The last I was looking, I was trying to determine if it is a shift cipher disk based on the Capital letters occurring every few letters, which can mean a shifting of letters on the disk. Unfortunately, this did not reveal anything either. Troy On the Hodaddy thing ... I know it is easy to get Hot Springs, but you can get another interesting clue by doing this: Take every 4th letter (starting with 4th letter): to get ATSEFTLUEI Rearrange and you get - ITS A FLUTE E -- Possibly IT’S A(n) "E" FLUTE ? As in the musical scale. A FLUTE SITE ?
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Post by minotaurmoreno on Jul 20, 2017 20:26:02 GMT -5
Day #1 (Chapter 3: 80 miles + miles then drove to park after dinner (we'll guess 10 miles)): New Orleans, LA to Baton Rouge, LA (80 miles)Day #2 (Chapter 9: 100 miles): Baton Rouge, LA to Ferriday, LA (100 miles)Day #3 (Chapter 13: 92 miles + miles to Butterscotch Clipper (we'll guess 12 miles)): Ferriday, LA to Bastrop, LA (92 miles)Day #4 (0 miles): Stayed there for the day (0 miles) Day #5 (Chapter 20: 114 miles + 45 miles = 159 miles): Bastrop, LA to Pine Bluff, AR (114 miles) + Pine Bluff, AR to Little Rock, AR (45 miles)Day #6 (Chapter 22: 55 miles): Little Rock, AR to Hot Springs, AR (55 miles)I used the dots on the book cover with New Orleans to Hot Springs (Pine Bluff, LA should be Pine Bluff, AR): Agreed on the dot pattern. Did you find the cities by using clues in the story which then agreed with the mileage? Or did you use the mileage to find the closest city? It was surprisingly very easy. One day I got the idea to try taking a picture of the book cover of just the dots, took a picture on Google Earth of Hot Springs and New Orleans together, threw them both into the Gimp photo editor to merge the two, put the farthest top dot on Hot Springs, put the lowest dot on New Orleans, plotted where the other dots matched up on Google Earth, and that instantly pointed out to me both Baton Rouge and Little Rock (when factoring in 55 miles) seemed around what would be correct. Pine Bluff was the only one a little off from where the dot was and took an extra couple of minutes to find, all the others were literally where I plotted the first dot and matched the milage perfectly the first time through when checking from city to city on Google maps. That's the moment I was sure, at least to my satisfaction, that Hot Springs was the spot (already having the hodaddy clue leading to Hot Springs).
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Post by minotaurmoreno on Jul 20, 2017 20:38:30 GMT -5
What was the significance of Lane "chanting" the Hodaddy clue before he solved it? Chanting seems to indicate a beat, rhythm, or syllable code. The chanting seemed to pair with the rap of the "nada" clue. I understand how writing in on the shower door in the steam could be a (very weak) connection to Hot Springs. However, it indicates more of a possible backwards read, or something else than the relation of steam and hot water. Initially, our team thought by him chanting it over and over that meant we might need to do the clue as a Mad Gab. After a few weeks, the best we could come up with for Hodaddy tsktsk prettify introfly South Georgia was 'How did I miss this pretty find/wine in July, South Georgia?' This is one of the reasons that we were so focused on Ringgold, GA (having that for the Chapter 23 title since the first week of the hunt) for March and April. Ringgold, GA was also 508 miles away from New Orleans, the main street through town is Nashville St., and has a Ooltewah Ringgold Rd. that leads you to two public parks (Oo-ee-oh). Once one of the members on our team figured out Hot Springs, we just went with that from that point forward.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 21, 2017 1:09:21 GMT -5
So far, I haven't seen a lot of compelling evidence for Hot Springs, AR. The Hoddaddy clue is imperfect, but it seems to be the primary piece of evidence that searchers are hanging their hats on. No tie-ins with bicentennial/200, no Et.. string connection, folks claiming New Orleans clues as "credit" for Hot Springs (a self-licking ice cream cone), and no anagrams supporting Hot Springs that I've seen or anyone is claiming. Pete repeatedly said there are 14, 15 or 16 different ways to determine the city in the first 3/4 of the book. Can anyone list even half that number? I'm not trying to throw cold water on this theory -- I'm trying to appreciate why anyone thinks it's that great a match. Both New Orleans and Baton Rouge have more direct clues than does Hot Springs as far as I can tell.
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Post by minotaurmoreno on Jul 21, 2017 6:56:56 GMT -5
Anybody else notice how quiet cowlazars seems to be after the treasure was found? Could he be the one who found it?
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Post by GeneticBlend on Jul 21, 2017 8:33:33 GMT -5
Yes, you are right! Where has cowlazers been? It did look like a man's hand holding that flute! Maybe we should compare the hands in the photos to cowlazers hands in his videos! 😉
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Post by TxTH on Jul 21, 2017 9:48:00 GMT -5
cowlazars made the third post in this thread asking if anyone on this board found it. Was that a distractor to keep us from thinking it was him? Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if it is someone not on this board since we are just a very small part of the people that were searching. Guess we will find out in a little over two weeks. At this point, if it had been me, I guarantee you I would have held on to it for three weeks to get the extra $5,000. Not because I am greedy GB, but because I could use it. Maybe $5,000 isn't much to you but it is to me. The argument about other people going out and spending money needlessly doesn't hold water. You know ahead of time there are no guarantees it hasn't already been recovered and you search at your own peril. There are no rules except those set by the creators of these puzzles and whether we like them or not is irrelevant since they created it and put up the treasure. We can always write our own if we want something different.
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Post by tpm on Jul 21, 2017 10:01:06 GMT -5
We're totally off guys. The flute was actually inside a book in a library in Vegas. It was right in Mike's backyard!
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Post by hearmeall on Jul 21, 2017 10:36:33 GMT -5
Did anyone search in a cemetery? That was an obvious location for me. When Pete told us it was in a public place and to be respectful it fit. He also said in one of the videos that if he showed the video of him hiding the treasure it would give some people goosebumps. There were many connections with a cemetery including rock formations.
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Post by hearmeall on Jul 21, 2017 14:21:14 GMT -5
Here's the connection with Hinds the Camel. Wiltz Chatelain injected a lot of biological specimen. Think of Wilt Chamberlin and the humps on a camel. Wiltz Chatelain did his work in Rayne, LA.
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Post by minotaurmoreno on Jul 21, 2017 14:56:47 GMT -5
Am I the only one who searched in Rayne, LA? Hundreds of connections between the town and book. If interested you can pull up the history of Rayne document from the city website. I had never heard of Rayne, LA before you posted about it here. That definitely checks a lot of boxes for this hunt for sure! Good stuff!
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Post by hearmeall on Jul 21, 2017 18:07:01 GMT -5
Hi Minotaurmoreno - I came up with over 100 connections in this small town. I picked Rayne as a contender before I got the book. The date the hunt started coincides with leap year, the picture of Pete with one of his stone frogs and Rayne is in CST which also matched.
In the Moms on Strike chapter, you have women going on Strike up and down the streets. A good many streets in Rayne are named after women. Connections can be made with many other streets, businesses, signs, buildings, and places in Rayne.
Pete used some unusual but simple methods for hinting, if Rayne is the correct city. I have suspected for quite some time that Pete designed this hunt so he can showcase how his company can teach you strategies that actually work.
It can be something as simple as the tinfoil used for salmon recipe in the book to connect with a street named Reynolds as in Reynolds Wrap.
I have to admit that until Pete divulges the correct solution, these are just my personal reflections.
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Post by toppop on Jul 21, 2017 22:00:00 GMT -5
Hi Minotaurmoreno - I came up with over 100 connections in this small town. I picked Rayne as a contender before I got the book. The date the hunt started coincides with leap year, the picture of Pete with one of his stone frogs and Rayne is in CST which also matched. In the Moms on Strike chapter, you have women going on Strike up and down the streets. A good many streets in Rayne are named after women. Connections can be made with many other streets, businesses, signs, buildings, and places in Rayne. Pete used some unusual but simple methods for hinting, if Rayne is the correct city. I have suspected for quite some time that Pete designed this hunt so he can showcase how his company can teach you strategies that actually work. It can be something as simple as the tinfoil used for salmon recipe in the book to connect with a street named Reynolds as in Reynolds Wrap. I have to admit that until Pete divulges the correct solution, these are just my personal reflections.
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