ANNOUNCEMENT ~ the First Key has a first finder!!

[lampwithfourkeys]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! We have a first finder for the First Key!!!  Someone has actually found the First Key. I was beginning to worry no one would ever find it! Congratulations to Brian Poeppelman and Genetic Blend, who worked on it as a team. The prize for the First Key has been awarded.



But everyone else keep working, because the other 3 Keys are yet to be found, and then there is the final puzzle that has to be solved for the final prize.   I am not posting the First Key or its solution until after the final puzzle is solved at the end. Everyone must find the Keys in order, in their own time, and then at the end use them all to unlock the final puzzle! None of the Keys uses the exact same solution method....so the first finder of each Key will not necessarily have the best advantage to be the first finder of the next Key.





I will keep giving out weekly clues for the First Key! Remember, everyone still has time to solve the other Keys and the final puzzle. None of the Keys have the same solution method (although they have a few elements in common.) Everyone has to solve the Keys in order.



So for that reason, I will not post the solution to the First Key until the end, when the final puzzle is solved.

[Jenny]

Exciting....and congrats to the first solvers of this Key! I'm sure there will be others moving along soon.....

[lampwithfourkeys]

I posted this on Facebook a few minutes ago!



Keys only. I can't verify or comment privately on anything else. If you find the key, send me an email, and then you'll know whether you can go on to Key 2! Although the prize for the First Key has been won, you can still be the first finder of Key 2!