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Post by Jenny on Aug 9, 2018 11:20:19 GMT -5
Inside the book: Armchair Treasure Hunts: The Quests for Hidden Treasures are Forrest Fenn Words in Code. When decoded they reveal a special message from Forrest Fenn to searchers of The Thrill of the Chase. The code is found on the last page of the book. Please use this section to discuss possible methods of solving it. ( The book can be purchased on Amazon) |
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Post by bownarrow on Aug 11, 2018 9:33:58 GMT -5
Hi Jenny,
Just received your book. It looks and feels great with a wealth of info about current armchair puzzle hunts.It's nice to have ff's words from Mysterious Writings all in one place! Congratulations!
Looking quickly down at ff's code at the back of the book reveals the numbers from 1-80 written in a seemingly random order in sections of 32, 32 and 16 numbers per line respectively.
Time to get my thinking cap on!
Did you receive the coded words from ff already in the code?
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Post by Jenny on Aug 11, 2018 10:39:07 GMT -5
Hi Jenny, Just received your book. It looks and feels great with a wealth of info about current armchair puzzle hunts.It's nice to have ff's words from Mysterious Writings all in one place! Congratulations! Looking quickly down at ff's code at the back of the book reveals the numbers from 1-80 written in a seemingly random order in sections of 32, 32 and 16 numbers per line respectively. Time to get my thinking cap on! Did you receive the coded words from ff already in the code? Thanks so much..... I love to hold and read books, so to have Forrest's words in PRINT was my main objective, and a very special project for me. The added MW Treasure Hunt, scattered codes, and summaries on all the other hunts seemed to flow well with it. As for the end FF words, I encoded them, but he was aware of what I was doing. Have fun! |
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Post by pacman on Aug 24, 2018 10:53:09 GMT -5
Looking quickly down at ff's code at the back of the book reveals the numbers from 1-80 written in a seemingly random order in sections of 32, 32 and 16 numbers per line respectively. Great book Jenny, well done! For the code, note that the single digit values appear in a pseudo-sequence {6,1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9}. Pacman |
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Post by astree on Aug 24, 2018 15:09:28 GMT -5
As for the end FF words, I encoded them, but he was aware of what I was doing. Have fun!
Hi Jenny,
Can you provide the same context for the coded words in Forrest's Foreword - were they provided by him, did he encode them, or did you?
Thanks, astree
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Post by bownarrow on Aug 24, 2018 19:11:02 GMT -5
1 - 80 = 2018
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Post by Jenny on Aug 24, 2018 21:35:55 GMT -5
As for the end FF words, I encoded them, but he was aware of what I was doing. Have fun!
Hi Jenny,
Can you provide the same context for the coded words in Forrest's Foreword - were they provided by him, did he encode them, or did you?
Thanks, astree
The small two lined code, after the foreword, was not provided, or encoded, by him. |
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Post by Jenny on Aug 24, 2018 21:39:33 GMT -5
If you are asking, that is not the solution. The solution provides a sentence from Forrest to searchers. |
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Post by Jenny on Aug 24, 2018 21:41:04 GMT -5
Looking quickly down at ff's code at the back of the book reveals the numbers from 1-80 written in a seemingly random order in sections of 32, 32 and 16 numbers per line respectively. Great book Jenny, well done! For the code, note that the single digit values appear in a pseudo-sequence {6,1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9}. Pacman Thanks pacman..... |
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Post by onthechase on Oct 3, 2018 18:49:11 GMT -5
Hi Jenny, you have said that the encoded words by Forrest Fenn are "very interesting". Without revealing the content of the message, are you able to please describe what about the words makes them interesting? At this point, Forrest has more or less stopped giving out clues (or as he calls them, hints, to distinguish them from the nine clues) -- in fact he has said more than once that he has given away too much already. Do you think he made an exception in this case, since the message was to be encoded?
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Post by Jenny on Oct 4, 2018 9:04:53 GMT -5
Hi Jenny, you have said that the encoded words by Forrest Fenn are "very interesting". Without revealing the content of the message, are you able to please describe what about the words makes them interesting? At this point, Forrest has more or less stopped giving out clues (or as he calls them, hints, to distinguish them from the nine clues) -- in fact he has said more than once that he has given away too much already. Do you think he made an exception in this case, since the message was to be encoded? I think maybe. They offer something towards knowing the location. That is all I should say. |
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Post by ironwill on Oct 4, 2018 19:57:57 GMT -5
Hi Jenny, you have said that the encoded words by Forrest Fenn are "very interesting". Without revealing the content of the message, are you able to please describe what about the words makes them interesting? At this point, Forrest has more or less stopped giving out clues (or as he calls them, hints, to distinguish them from the nine clues) -- in fact he has said more than once that he has given away too much already. Do you think he made an exception in this case, since the message was to be encoded? I think maybe. They offer something towards knowing the location. That is all I should say. You just HAD to say it that way didn't ya?    |
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Post by ironwill on Oct 6, 2018 20:17:54 GMT -5
If you are asking, that is not the solution. The solution provides a sentence from Forrest to searchers. Jenny, Since you have stated that the code is a sentence, we must go off the knowledge that the numbers 1-80 represent letters, not words...or we'd have a whole paragraph. Since it can be solved within your book, and those numbers represent letters...then somehow we must do some deciphering or counting in the book "somewhere". My question is as we go through our solving process, do we need to concern ourselves with spaces and punctuation (ie 41, 10, 73, 22, 80, 28, 76, 6, 32, 53, 61, 19, 1... is L, O, O, K, SPACE, F, O, R, SPACE, I, T, ', S...) or are we to regard the message as Thomas Beale's code that contained just letters, in which we scrutinize our own use of spaces to form the sentences? I believe you can see how counting or deciphering spaces and punctuation within passages in your book could be a monumental and daunting task for most anyone. Great book btw... Will |
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Post by jdiggins on Oct 6, 2018 20:24:14 GMT -5
If you are asking, that is not the solution. The solution provides a sentence from Forrest to searchers. Jenny, Since you have stated that the code is a sentence, we must go off the knowledge that the numbers 1-80 represent letters, not words...or we'd have a whole paragraph. Since it can be solved within your book, and those numbers represent letters...then somehow we must do some deciphering or counting in the book "somewhere". My question is as we go through our solving process, do we need to concern ourselves with spaces and punctuation (ie 41, 10, 73, 22, 80, 28, 76, 6, 32, 53, 61, 19, 1... is L, O, O, K, SPACE, F, O, R, SPACE, I, T, ', S...) or are we to regard the message as Thomas Beale's code that contained just letters, in which we scrutinize our own use of spaces to form the sentences? I believe you can see how counting or deciphering spaces and punctuation within passages in your book could be a monumental and daunting task for most anyone. Great book btw... Will Iron will, nice to see you engaging again. Miss you in the chase. |
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Post by ironwill on Oct 6, 2018 20:58:14 GMT -5
Jenny, Since you have stated that the code is a sentence, we must go off the knowledge that the numbers 1-80 represent letters, not words...or we'd have a whole paragraph. Since it can be solved within your book, and those numbers represent letters...then somehow we must do some deciphering or counting in the book "somewhere". My question is as we go through our solving process, do we need to concern ourselves with spaces and punctuation (ie 41, 10, 73, 22, 80, 28, 76, 6, 32, 53, 61, 19, 1... is L, O, O, K, SPACE, F, O, R, SPACE, I, T, ', S...) or are we to regard the message as Thomas Beale's code that contained just letters, in which we scrutinize our own use of spaces to form the sentences? I believe you can see how counting or deciphering spaces and punctuation within passages in your book could be a monumental and daunting task for most anyone. Great book btw... Will Iron will, nice to see you engaging again. Miss you in the chase. I'm always around Jamie  |
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