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Post by TxTH on Aug 7, 2017 7:13:20 GMT -5
OK, I thought I would go ahead and post this before Jenny started releasing any additional clues. I have cracked this one. No, I did not solve the cipher because I found out I didn't have to. I am not going to retrieve the stone since it is North of the Mason-Dixon Line and is therefore a little too far for me to travel. I wish someone else good luck and I hope someone else solves it before Jenny has to release more clues!! If there is someone bored today and looking for something to do and would like to go get the stone PM me and tell me where you are located and if you are close I will tell you where to go get it. You keep everything.
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Post by TxTH on Aug 4, 2017 9:46:20 GMT -5
Actually both Mindy. It helps to know the history of where the famous person was and all to give you some general ideas, but it comes down to solving the ciphers to get the final solution. As for this one, many of us have everything solved except the yvc... cipher. It holds the final key to the location. Google " codes and ciphers" and you will get lots of useful sites. Also, Wikipedia is your friend!
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Post by TxTH on Jul 27, 2017 10:31:55 GMT -5
Minotaurmoreno, did you solve that one last stubborn cipher that has everyone stumped? If so, congratulations to you. Yes. As I have said before, TxTH and I have solved every clue for Scroll IV and know the final location 100%. Providing TxTH is alright with it, I'll even tell you where it is if you want to go pick it up for us and split the money three ways. Definitely ok by me.
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Post by TxTH on Jul 24, 2017 10:06:56 GMT -5
Hey zaphod73491, I figured as much. I was just calling him out on how ridiculous his statement is. Unless he found it he has no clue where it is and certainly cannot claim it was not in Hot Springs or anywhere else. It may not be in Hot Springs but he sure doesn't know where it is. However, I am sure AFTER the location is released he can come back and tell us all where it was and he knew it all along.
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Post by TxTH on Jul 23, 2017 17:37:30 GMT -5
THE TREASURE WAS NOT IN HOT SPRINGS. SO STOP ALL THIS WASTED NONSENSE. Hey, I just saw this. I didn't realize that. Where was it qigongbaby?
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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 TxTH on Jul 20, 2017 11:18:33 GMT -5
Thanks Jenny! Just wanted to say how great a job you all did on these scrolls. The puzzles progressed in difficulty, obviously lots of research went into the story lines, and the artwork and designs on the scrolls themselves were great. Thanks for the many hours of fun, sweat, and tears plus all of the new knowledge and insights gained to some of our historical figures and locations.
TxTH
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Post by TxTH on Jul 19, 2017 15:35:59 GMT -5
Hahaha, just kidding! I added that in there. That would be my luck... kick the dang thing while walking past it and never see it. lol
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Post by TxTH on Jul 19, 2017 15:21:13 GMT -5
I thought this was another confirmer to Hot Springs... at the wedding party afterwards "Lets play duck duck goose"
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Post by TxTH on Jul 19, 2017 14:28:07 GMT -5
Does anyone else think that the dots and lines on the cover look like a Treble Clef music symbol? 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): Exactly what I had.
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Post by TxTH on Jul 19, 2017 13:57:03 GMT -5
txth, loved your video! Did you venture out on to the rocks? I went out on to the rocks, and down below them and around them. Once down below the rocks, I found what I believed to be the "rock narrows" where the character Nelson went through to meet with Judy, who was coming up the hill. Yes, I spent the majority of my time down below the rocks though I climbed around on top as well looking in crevices. Here is the picture I took of the narrow from the bottom looking up: s20.postimg.org/z400sh0ct/IMG_3093.jpg
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Post by TxTH on Jul 19, 2017 13:52:11 GMT -5
I believe that the solution is Hot Springs, Arkansas. There are many clues and a few ciphers in the book that have led many people, including myself, to travel to Hot Springs, to search the area. If the solution is not Hot Springs, then I feel like Pete has played a cruel joke on us all by putting a red herring in the book. If Hot Springs is a red herring, it has caused many people to believe it was the solution, spending money and traveling to search that spot. If Hot Springs does turn out to be the solution, then why is it that so many people have traveled there, searched the spot, and have come back empty-handed? I am especially curious to find out where the treasure was hidden, and who found it. I am curious as to if the flute was sitting out in the open (hidden) or buried. It is obviously something you would not want exposed to the elements so it must have been in some form of a container. With the poem talking about a tree eating something other than sun it could very well have been hidden inside a tree. Pure speculation on my part.
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Post by TxTH on Jul 19, 2017 10:23:16 GMT -5
Another thing I discovered is that the title to Chapter 23 that yielded many possible latitudes in the Hot Springs area. Here is a screenshot showing that one of them passed right through the middle of the Balanced Rock formation. I went to that precise location and searched and then also went 68 feet in a direction of 210 degrees "as the mockingbird flies" which was more like 72 feet on the ground since the slope is pretty steep in this area. There were large rocks in the area but nothing like a large boulder. Since I was down there I moved parallel to the cliff in both directions trying to stay "68 feet" away checking rocks as I went. Of course I found nothing. Here are the other latitudes in the area of my interest that could be created from the Chapter 23 title:
Here is the ridge with the 210 compass direction set off to give me the general line to search 68 feet away. Any rock I came near I checked.
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Post by TxTH on Jul 18, 2017 22:34:38 GMT -5
Here is a good look at the trail. Forgive my goofy comments and all, but you will see that the steps work out exactly. The lady with me is my wonderful wife who has shared all of my treasure adventures over the years. Where the movie starts is after the first climb which is a killer for someone 70 years old and out of shape. Might also mention, the boulder eating tree was struck by lightening between my first visit to the area and my second. The tell-tale strip of bark missing from the top of the tree to the bottom is on the left side of the tree as you look at it from the trail. Movie: youtu.be/PlFlJNJUb_kPicture of lightening strike on boulder eating tree:
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Post by TxTH on Jul 18, 2017 20:18:10 GMT -5
Did anyone find any bicycle rental and park that was the 40 (?) miles north ? Yes. Remember they made arrangements for the bicycles and then moved. If you double back from the Pinnacle State Park entrance and go 9 miles there are parking lots alongside the bike trail. They rode the trail to the State Park and then went 2 miles where they encountered the Butterscotch Clipper. Remember also they had to bear right at one point. This is a perfect fit, plus from here, inside the park, to Hot Springs is 55 miles. This is at Little Rock AR
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