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Post by goldentoad on Feb 15, 2020 21:20:05 GMT -5
That definitely sounds like a ciphertext to me. Looks like I have some catching up to do!
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Post by jewelie on Feb 16, 2020 15:39:54 GMT -5
I wonder if the solution for the 7th stanza tells you how to decipher the numbers.
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 17, 2020 8:42:24 GMT -5
Ok, I’m going to give an enormous hint about this stanza since I never could have gotten this far without this forum.
It’s a single tree.
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Post by goldenchild on Feb 17, 2020 19:32:52 GMT -5
Ok, I’m going to give an enormous hint about this stanza since I never could have gotten this far without this forum. It’s a single tree. is this clue for the sixth or seventh stanza? I ask because the previous poster mentioned the seventh stanza, but we’re in the sixth stanza thread. Just wanted to clarify
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 17, 2020 19:47:46 GMT -5
Sixth.
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 23, 2020 9:51:45 GMT -5
My solution for this stanza appears to be totally coincidental, so I'll share what I thought it was.
323 577 is an area code and exchange for Mt. Washington, CA. I realized that George Washington fits this stanza because when he chopped down the cherry tree (clearing wood), he thought he would get punished but instead he was praised by his father for his honesty. So if you think of fortune more as good fortune than money, his fortune did come as a surprise.
This was confirmed by the 11 miles north hint because if you go 11 miles north of the Sinclair gas station from Mini Hunt #2, it almost exactly puts you on Georgetown Rd.
So...I downloaded an ebook of The Complete Works of George Washington and searched for anything related to black flame. When I looked for 'black' I found a reference to Blackburn's Corner. Aha, I thought. Black Flame, Black Burn; that must be it.
There are a few Blackburn towns in the U.S. One is pretty close to El Dorado, AR. Since there are only three towns named El Dorado in the U.S., this seemed pretty coincidental to me. El Dorado must be the place.
So I tried everything for Key 2 I could think of related to these areas. Nothing.
I re-evaluated. If travel through Blackflame means to go further into the book, there's a reference to GoldSmith's of Edinburgh later on. Aha again, I thought. The place where alchemy's best (gold) is found is Edinburgh.
So I looked at Edinburgh, Indiana. Nothing. I looked at the highway that goes between Blackburn, England and Edinburgh, Scotland. Nothing. I looked at the museum in Blackburn, England, that has gold on exhibit. Nothing.
Then came all the posts about ciphertext. It sounds like findingthetruth found something online on Lukas' site to me. I might still have the right book, but I'm getting nowhere with my interpretation of the next stanza.
What do you al think about where to find the cipher text? The cipher text must be the key...
Maybe 'the place where alchemy's best is found' is a metaphoric reference to digitalburiedtreasure.com, so somehow traveling through blackflame tells us how to access the hidden page on his site. What do you think?
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 23, 2020 12:55:37 GMT -5
Oh! I wondered where San Francisco came from. Interesting. James Marshall fits the description too. I actually had never heard of him, but wiki says that he owned a sawmill and discovered gold at it which sparked the Gold Rush. So running the sawmill could loosely fit 'clearing wood upon the land.'
It looks like he wrote a book: The Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall: The Discoverer of Gold in California
I wonder if that has anything about black flame in it.
Well, this is a new direction. If I find anything with that book, I'll let you know.
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 23, 2020 13:06:13 GMT -5
Ok, he didn't actually write that book. And there are lots of books about him. So which one???
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 23, 2020 14:05:08 GMT -5
Maybe The Black Flame by Stephen Weinbaum? The protagonist is Thomas Marshall Conner. I actually started reading this a few months ago but never finished.
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 23, 2020 21:27:29 GMT -5
I keep trying to think how someone could find cipher text. Two people claim to have seen a few lines of numbers and symbols that were created for the hunt. It would have to be online.
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 24, 2020 7:27:17 GMT -5
What do you mean by “after 3?”
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 24, 2020 9:19:07 GMT -5
Interesting. I didn't know that. Actually /323577 works which is what most people would have put. Then it redirects to -2.
The location of the chest won't be any use without Key 2. So far nobody has put the correct Key 2 in the tester or Lukas would have posted it.
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Post by texttext on Feb 24, 2020 12:20:27 GMT -5
Thank you. I'm aware of the need for the second key. I was expecting you to provide me with a clue to the chest as I have provided you with useful information. Please send me a private message if it makes you more comfortable, but I continue to hunt for the treasure chest.
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Post by mrpoirot on Feb 27, 2020 16:53:06 GMT -5
I keep trying to think how someone could find cipher text. Two people claim to have seen a few lines of numbers and symbols that were created for the hunt. It would have to be online. Yes, it would be great to know more about this. Is it a webpage that you have found that has the cipher and a direct (obvious) link to this hunt?
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Post by jewelie on Feb 27, 2020 16:56:13 GMT -5
It would also be helpful to know the same information about the chest.
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