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Post by Jenny on Oct 24, 2019 8:38:54 GMT -5
As more info continues to come in, it certainly seems the Boston Casque is found.... is this the correct solution? And who is the 'Secret Finder'?
https://www.reddit.com/r/12keys/comments/cvxs4i/my_boston_solution_unfortunately_it_may_be_too/
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Post by Jenny on Oct 24, 2019 8:45:19 GMT -5
Article on the upcoming EU episode: www.discovery.com/shows/expedition-unknown/articles/a-beginner-s-guide-to-the-secret-treasure-huntJosh Gates has received thousands of messages with people claiming to have solved The Secret, but one fan just cut through the chatter with an image that made Josh’s jaw drop: the broken corner of a ceramic clock-face. Josh is one of only a handful of people to have seen Byron Preiss’ puzzle boxes in person, and there’s no doubt that this is part of one - causing Josh to drop everything and fly half a world away to join the new investigation.
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Post by catherwood on Oct 25, 2019 12:42:36 GMT -5
the title for the October 30th episode of Expedition Unknown is "The Secret Solved"
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Post by Jenny on Oct 25, 2019 13:45:43 GMT -5
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Post by zaphod73491 on Dec 28, 2020 15:00:39 GMT -5
Hi Jenny: thought I'd contribute what I believe is an important missing piece of continuity to the Boston puzzle that was not figured out by Jason the finder (though that remarkably did not prevent him from solving the ending). In my opinion (and that of John Jude Palencar), the Christopher Columbus statue had nothing to do with solving the puzzle, and any resemblance between Columbus and the witch in the illustration was purely coincidental. Also, I think Jason's somewhat arbitrary assignment of pier groupings to yield five ("Take five steps / In the area of his direction") was probably more a guess at reverse engineering the route from the Langone Park ending. But I don't think Byron Preiss's intended route had anything to do with the wharves in the North End.
The first four lines of the verse are:
If Thucydides is North of Xenophon Take five steps In the area of his direction
The antedecent to "his" in this case is Thucydides, and based on the conditional provided, "five steps in the area of *his* direction" would mean five steps north. Now the inclusion of "the area of" is probably a double clue: that you are not only heading north, you are heading to the "North End". Otherwise, he could have just written "Take five steps in his direction."
Now a *literal* five steps northward from the east-northeast facing wall of the Boston Public Library (where Thucydides and Xenophon are found) obviously won't get you to the North End. But Copley Station is only about 200 feet away, and traveling north on the Green Line will take you to North Station in the North End. (It would be a more perfect fit if North Station was 5 "stops" north of Copley, but unfortunately it is six.) As a side note, Back Bay Station is the second closest T stop to the Boston Public Library, and in the early 1980s going five stops north on the Orange Line from Back Bay would put you at North Station.
Exiting the T at North Station, it's less than a 700-yard walk to the treasure's location. And unlike the approach from Jason's wharf side, you will pass right by Steriti Memorial Ice Rink -- a coliseum built in 1975 that has metal walls and is immediately west of the three baseball diamonds.
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