Comments/Q/A's by 'Digital Buried Treasure'

[efanton]

Jul 19, 2019 10:45:48 GMT -5 susb8383 said:

Jul 19, 2019 4:40:09 GMT -5 efanton said:

I dont think there's anything new there.

If it is a URL its self evident that it has a feedback mechanism.
You enter a correct URL you get a webpage obviously related to the treasure hunt, you enter a wrong URL you get a web page that has nothing to do with the treasure hunt or the dreaded 404 page could not be found

I disagree. There are a couple of new hints I see in his answer.

First, he says 'mechanisms' (plural). It doesn't sound to me like he's talking about a single final webpage containing the treasure chest.

Second, he refers to the mechanisms as confirming that you found 'a key.' To me this sounds like there are two different confirmers; one for each key.

And you have to look at his answer in the context of the question. Mikael asked if it was possible to know you have key1 correct before you move on to key2. Lukas answer to that question doesn't sound to me like he's talking about the final webpage.

If you think of it as the 1st key getting you to a website,  and a 2nd key to be used once you get to the website, then you could absolutely say that there is multiple feedback mechanisms,  one for each key.
You enter the correct web address and find the site, or you enter a wrong web address and get the wrong web site.  Feedback is either a positive I have found the site, or negative I have not found the site.
Similarly once you get to the site,  You have to use the second key somehow.  Again if you are right you will get a positive result if you are wrong you will not.
If you are of the view that the first key is a web address,  his comments add nothing new, he is simply being vague as he always is.

If its a phone number, similar situation.  You dial a number and get a response,  or your dial a number and do not get a response.  He has given away nothing new.

If your theory is something else completely,  then there might be new meaning, but I suspect he is leaving his responses deliberately vague so no one can totally rule out a theory to a solution

[efanton]

Jul 20, 2019 10:08:25 GMT -5 efanton said:

something else that I should point out.

Over a month ago I asked this question on the YouTube page

Eamonn Fanton
1 month ago
Does the solution involve a long distance phone call?

A month later no reply.

Azelpho
1 week ago
Do I need a phone to solve this riddle? I won't have cell service for the coming month.


Digital Buried Treasure
1 week ago
There are cell phone apps that allow you to place calls over WiFi if you feel like it is needed

Now, this is completely open to your individual interpretation.
We know that Lukas NEVER answers a question with a direct reply, and will be deliberately vague when he does respond so as no theory can be ruled out, even if it is a wrong theory.

My interpretation of this was partly his lack of response, and partly common sense.
He did not reply in over a month. Had a phone call been required to solve the riddle I would have expected an answer, even if it was only to say 'May be'
My common sense argument would be, if you were setting up a hunt, would you set it up where multiple numbers could be tried (at all hours of the day because those trying to solve the riddles are in multiple timezone's), potentially causing complaints by wrong numbers being called (especially during night-time hours)?
Obviously to prevent wrong numbers being called at random times of the day, the way to eradicate that would be to set a riddle where only ONE number could be the answer. That pretty much limits how the puzzle to find the number could be set. It would be difficult to split the numbers into different segments, or across multiple stanzas without, wrong numbers being called.

My reasoning would be that IF a phone number was involved it would come from one single clue or stanza so as to avoid as much as possible a wrong number being used, or be so obvious once you had solved the clue(s) that you would know it to be the correct number before dialing.
Of course Lukas might not have considered the implications of multiple telephone numbers being called at all hours of the day and the inconvenience caused to people who are not related to this hunt.
Personally, I think this is unlikely, so far he seems to have been very methodical, and deliberate in both the way he has set the puzzle and the way he has answered the questions.  I'm sure he would have considered any inconvenience he might cause.

A funny thought came to me while I considered this. One way to eliminate the telephone theory would be to ring every number in his locality multiple times, (we know where he lives), and ask on the phone "is this Lukas Stanley or his online treasure hunt" as soon as the phone was answered. You could just imagine how intolerable his live would get, when all his neighbors get totally pissed off with him. He would quickly have to elaborate his clues, or discount a phone number in his area being used. 

[TheCoyWonder]

Freebie yes or no question from the Youtube comments.



So a web address looks likely. 

[susb8383]

Well...we kind of knew that already. He has said the treasure chest is somewhere on the internet. I don't see how that could be anything but a website.

But that could mean the poem leads us to a url or an ip address. And it doesn't really tell us whether key1 and/or key2 are part of the web address, or just the stanza about black flame.