Key 2

[susb8383]

Just chiming in on one thought I had.

For each of you is equal

4/each of U/is equal

Meaning whatever letters you end up with, change all the Us to 4s. That would get you to having a pw which contains both letters and numbers. So tabfrankie, maybe the answer was locht4rns or some variation.

[proewe]

4 each of you is equal: There are exactly 4 common letters in Dan's Ace Hardware, Flowers By the Sea and Chevron Gold Beach: H, R, E, A. You can make hear, hare, rhea/hera with these letters. Here (hear) the hunt (hare) begins was the last thing I was following up on the day before it was solved. Also, Flowers By the Sea has 12 unique letters; also, the first letter of every line in the poem makes up 12 unique letters. ALSO Remember the book collection Lukas is reading from in the video, and that one of the books published in that collection is a compilation of English poems called The Golden Treasury by Francis T. Palgrave? Palgrave was once the chair of the Poetry Department in Oxford, and one of the poems in the compilation is called By the Sea.
This hunt was a lot of fun! Though I do have to say that there were too many coinciding things that made equal sense when you dig deep enough. The part with the Bowling Alley still annoys me for example... I don't know if this was really solvable by only reading the poem, without all the hints. Guess we'll see when the solve comes out! Really curious and looking forward to it

[findingthetruth]

the video is premiering in 3 hours on youtube 17:00 GMT

[tabfrankie]

I thought it was fun also. And while challenging, the hints every month kept it engaging.

[iggor]

Hello all,

My first post comes a bit late...

My theory is that the cross is the roof of the library...hidden in plain sight...(it also could explain why you'd have more chance finding it with google instead of bing due to the lower resolution in bing).
The building is appended with its adress right? which reads : 29707 Ellensburg Ave, Gold Beach, OR 97444, United States. Hence, high OR low in hand: both the 5 digits numbers, one being high, the other one low.
You do not need to rise up: to rise a number to a power is a common mathematical operation...so this is where I got stuck.
I did try all posibilities: high nth root of the low number, dividing (high number / low number),etc.
Further I though that the for U is equal meant a multiplication by 4.
Anyway, happy to have participated and congrats to the winner.
Curious to see if I was close for the second key!

[fishmini]

I was literally so close. I'm pretty sure I've tried the passwords flordelamar21, flordelamar11, etc... SO FRUSTRATING. Also, apparently ace hardware appended to the chinook (king salmon) = 21 was a coincidence. Which is wild.

[balloonsrfun]

So from what I got out of that, is that he used TWO watery tragedies and not just one?

[tabfrankie]

I came across flor dead la mar... and immediately moved on, lol.

[fishmini]

Jun 24, 2020 11:28:58 GMT -5 balloonsrfun said:

So from what I got out of that, is that he used TWO watery tragedies and not just one?

The Mary D. Hume was a red herring

[rhoddir2hedfan]

I somehow got from Minnow Creek directly to Gold Beach - someone mentioned Minnow Creek here so I googled it, found it in Oregon - so I scrolled west to the coast and quickly spotted that Gold Beach looked like the hint map posted on YouTube. Glad that I didn't seem to have missed anything significant that would've helped with the key.