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Post by miracleman on May 22, 2020 6:11:16 GMT -5
Whatever the word is Key, or the word that helps more than the others, it doesn't seem it's a game changer..... unless that is what all searchers are missing? Hi Jenny, I’d say it is a game changer. Without it, you cannot solve WWWH with confidence. Nope, not all searchers are missing it. I know of at least a few personally who know the “word that is key.” But most who know it prob wouldn’t want to share it on an open forum.
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Post by zaphod73491 on May 22, 2020 23:20:53 GMT -5
Knowing that word is 100% necessary IMO, but far from sufficient. It won't tell you home of Brown or the blaze, for instance. But if you don't solve that keyword, then you're done and in Canasta mode.
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Post by Jenny on May 24, 2020 11:11:22 GMT -5
So is it your opinion that those who 'arrive' at WWWH, unknowing it is WWWH of the poem, are those who don't have the keyword? And so had not 'solved' it?
And that brings the question, if people can arrive there, why don't they know it? It just seems it is a place a WWWH, visited, but not for reason of the poem.... this scenario seems to make WWWH quite a common, easy to get to location..... so common it is 'overlooked'?
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Post by rahrah on May 24, 2020 12:47:25 GMT -5
Until recently I did not fully appreciate how critical it is, absolutely, with certainty, that you must be correct in understanding wwwh.....as Fenn reminds us, if you don't have that nailed down, you have nothing.
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Post by rahrah on May 24, 2020 12:49:33 GMT -5
So is it your opinion that those who 'arrive' at WWWH, unknowing it is WWWH of the poem, are those who don't have the keyword? And so had not 'solved' it? And that brings the question, if people can arrive there, why don't they know it? It just seems it is a place a WWWH, visited, but not for reason of the poem.... this scenario seems to make WWWH quite a common, easy to get to location..... so common it is 'overlooked'? Merely arriving at the correct wwwh isn't enough, you must understand why you're there/how you got there.....those who got there and didn't know why, they guessed and guessing will not take you through the steps to solve the clues.
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Post by miracleman on May 24, 2020 15:32:58 GMT -5
Hi Jenny - you could solve the “word that is key” but still not know WWWH. It took a few months and a book about the area for me to have my Aha moment.
But more likely are people at WWWH who haven’t figured at the “word that is key.” IMO
Also, I suspect anyone who has “walked right by” has figured out “word that is key.” Have a pretty good idea about what is happening here.
I think Forrest is right to a certain extent about the difficulty of the clues, once you have figured out the first few (fairly difficult), the rest start to fall in place. There is a brilliant ambiguity at work but the clues in the book help one with clarification.
But for sure, if you don’t have the first clue solved with confidence, you don’t have anything.
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Post by miracleman on May 24, 2020 19:24:15 GMT -5
Hey Van, my methodology was to first figure out the “word that is key.” That was trial and error, trying different options. After reading the blogs for months, I had a pretty good idea how to go about and where to focus.
Then I went about figuring out WWWH. That took months of more trial and error (but probably shouldn’t have). I don’t think there are themes in the poem. I think each clue is a small puzzle to be figured out independently one at a time and all take a different kind of thinking to solve. I think knowing the ways in which Forrest likes to be clever is helpful in figuring out how he coded different clues. Also, the hints almost jump out of the book when figure certain things out.
I’ve recently made what I consider good progress mostly using the above methodology. I truly don’t think it’s as complicated as people make it out to be, but if you don’t open the front door to the right house, you won’t have a chance.
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Post by miracleman on May 24, 2020 20:39:07 GMT -5
Hey Van - that’s an interesting approach. I mean anything is in play, as long as you are confident in the solution. I find the book hints a great aid in letting you know you’re on the right track.
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Post by Jenny on May 27, 2020 6:17:30 GMT -5
Do you all think you have the same 'keyword'? Or do you feel each of you have interpreted it to be a different one?
And I'm not asking for a reveal of keywords....lol..... I have my own, and I'm confident with it......but without the chest in hand, there is always that 'what if' I have interpreted it wrong....which each of us have to question- no matter how confident we are.
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Post by Bownarrow on May 27, 2020 13:47:04 GMT -5
...but without the chest in hand, there is always that 'what if' I have interpreted it wrong....which each of us have to question- no matter how confident we are. Jenny,
Maybe that assumption needs questioning:
"If you are in the right spot something you probably haven't thought about should be obvious to you."
What if the something that you probably have not thought about but is obvious, is that it is obviously the right spot?
i.e. The something that you probably have not thought about to question but is obvious at the right spot, is the assumption you stated.
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Post by lbkgoat on May 27, 2020 16:24:57 GMT -5
My keyword is title. I believe that once you have solved the first 8 clues, the keyword title takes you to the TC.
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Post by Mike Woodd on May 28, 2020 2:27:54 GMT -5
Whatever the word is Key, or the word that helps more than the others, it doesn't seem it's a game changer..... unless that is what all searchers are missing? Jenny - what's a game changer? Personally I like the word "Element" as the word that is key. But in my opinion it's not the word in the poem that will help you more than most. In fact, I think that word in the poem might be "in". Consider this as a word puzzle - "only a few are in tight focus with a word that is key" - and consider that maybe to be in tight focus requires a compound lens, and such a lens contains lens "elements". Now consider that "In" is a symbol, a proper noun, for the element, Indium (element 49). Knowing Forrest's history, it is not too much of a stretch to consider that he has thought about metals as elements, and possibly learnt a little of the key reference to them. A hint could be where in his book he talks about an iron fire escape and brown pants. Consider also that the symbol for iron is "Fe" which happens to initial the words "fire escape". Coincidentally or not, iron is element number 9 which jibes with the number of clues in the poem. (WRONG! Derp... Anyway...) Now - If a person could put or "place" the symbol "In", as the number 49, below a particular "home of Brown", and could learn that the number 49 has a significance, historically but surely and truly linked, to a part of Forrest's My War for Me story - then might some confidence result? If that home of Brown was also a place where literal warm water often rests, along with more metaphorical book linkages? The above is no silver bullet - but I can say it's the start of "a" solve. Is any of this a game changer? That is not possible to foreknow. I can say this line of thinking, and word puzzling and marrying the the poem to a map, is one of many approaches (I'm sure) that can result in precise square foot solves. I can also say that guessing and searching the possibilities from afar is extremely problematic.
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Post by zaphod73491 on May 28, 2020 13:46:22 GMT -5
Iron is 26 -- fluorine is 9. Think you mixed your Fe and F. ;-)
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Post by woollybugger on May 28, 2020 14:10:48 GMT -5
So is it your opinion that those who 'arrive' at WWWH, unknowing it is WWWH of the poem, are those who don't have the keyword? And so had not 'solved' it? And that brings the question, if people can arrive there, why don't they know it? It just seems it is a place a WWWH, visited, but not for reason of the poem.... this scenario seems to make WWWH quite a common, easy to get to location..... so common it is 'overlooked'? Merely arriving at the correct wwwh isn't enough, you must understand why you're there/how you got there.....those who got there and didn't know why, they guessed and guessing will not take you through the steps to solve the clues.
I'm interested in the "why you're there/how you got there" comment. From your perspective is this why Forrest would send you there? or how (methodology) you came to decide that this was WWWH?
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Post by whotrollsnigh on May 28, 2020 14:27:40 GMT -5
Whatever the word is Key, or the word that helps more than the others, it doesn't seem it's a game changer..... unless that is what all searchers are missing? "...but only a few are in tight focus with a word that is key. The treasure may be discovered sooner than I anticipated."
An eye focuses. And sooner implies more quickly. T h e r e l l b e J u s t h e a v y I f y o u v e b e
L o o k q u i c k EYE<>KEY The above has been mentioned before. What I have not seen mentioned is that the letters to the left ( BVBC) when shifted three letters forward become EYEF...
Confirmation or coincidence?
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