Should Fenn reveal the correct solution? Why wouldnt he?

[sangre]

I don’t expect him to give the location. I don’t care about the gold. I don’t even necessarily want to know the exact location. But at least say what his intentions were for the first few clues. Why not give those answers? There’s no good reason to keep us in the dark. It’s a puzzle/ riddle that many of us tried to decipher. How about this suggestion: give us what kind thing the blaze is supposed to be. Now that the chest is gone, how would we ever know if we had the correct solution?

[goldwatch]

Jul 4, 2020 11:21:55 GMT -5 sangre said:

I don’t expect him to give the location. I don’t care about the gold. I don’t even necessarily want to know the exact location. But at least say what his intentions were for the first few clues. Why not give those answers? There’s no good reason to keep us in the dark. It’s a puzzle/ riddle that many of us tried to decipher. How about this suggestion: give us what kind thing the blaze is supposed to be. Now that the chest is gone, how would we ever know if we had the correct solution?

I understand that, but isn't "the correct solve" now the possession of the Finder's? Of all of us, including Forrest, who has the better claim to that story? 

[goldilocks]

Jul 4, 2020 11:21:55 GMT -5 sangre said:

I don’t expect him to give the location. I don’t care about the gold. I don’t even necessarily want to know the exact location. But at least say what his intentions were for the first few clues. Why not give those answers? There’s no good reason to keep us in the dark. It’s a puzzle/ riddle that many of us tried to decipher. How about this suggestion: give us what kind thing the blaze is supposed to be. Now that the chest is gone, how would we ever know if we had the correct solution?

Remember he said he was surprised nobody had analyzed one important possibility related to the winning solve...the answer to the blaze for example could be the one thing and may reveal too much. We just don't know. I have a high level of confidence that we will have answers at some point. 

[zaphod73491]

Here's one instance:

MW Featured Question: Decisions (5/11/2018): "Forrest, when the Treasure Chest is found, would you prefer the finder not disclose the exact resting spot? Curious. ~Afana"

FF: "Afana, I love your name. It reminds me of alfalfa, which has the greatest smell in the world when freshly cut in the field.
Whoever finds the treasure will have more than a few decisions to make. One of them will be whether or not to reveal the location. I will leave that up to the finder. f"

Link: mysteriouswritings.com/featured-question-with-forrest-fenn-and-the-thrill-of-the-chase-treasure-hunt-decisions/

That seems pretty crystal clear to me.

[heidini]

Exactly.

[omni]

The finder can't reveal the spot because it would put the chest at risk from the government. It would open Pandora's box of legal questions. With no spot and no finder, there is no pressure. If either come out, then the investigation begins.

[sangre]

All I’m talking about is the solution to a puzzle. For example:

E T E T W W W
T H E O A A A
T E S O S Y Y
S E A N Y R T
C C C E H T E
W A S H E E S
R A N T S N R

there’s a six-word sentence forming a symmetrical pattern and meaning “it is not very hard to find out how.” Can you find the pattern and write the sentence below?

[Deleted]

I don't think it was on land where it would be illegal to take it. IMO people need to really consider why he would not do such a thing because it makes no sense to use an uneducated guess.

Like Zap said, Forrest has always said that revealing the location and solution will be up to the finder. We all knew this, and if you didn't, perhaps you should have researched it before joining the chase.

I think we will find out more, but that won't happen until the crazies lose all their frivelous lawsuits.

[jr27e]

I was in the area the Sunday f. said it was found but there was no one in there that day I was there. I would like to know the exact time and date at least.
I prob. know more about the area than almost anyone at this point.another thing somone ought to say is -while lining up the blaze and getting to the exact spot to look down-what did you see. I know this and I have since 2017. I have wrote f. and have been there several times figuring new clues each time. You have to play the game of numbers and lines. I got to where I could not see very well and he told me to get with the little Ind. girl As partner. (not me but in the sight)That was a hint as well.v Even the yarn man was a hint.I am poor and now on my way to seeing less . but my kids kicked in and we went one last time to get it. WOW what a shock when we could not find it. I just thought I had done somthing wrong again but now I am not sure. Beleive me You know you are in the right spot when you look Quickly down and see what is there. Also when you walk down at that spot and stand next to what you saw , you see a on the ground a object that seals any thoughts of being wrong. But when I went back 2 weeks latter 2017 thinking I had it,the object was gone. so I put up rocks to point the way and they were moved the following yr.
  I know quite a lot about the whole area but don't know if I need to say anything. One things for sure, it's was well hid.I now know all the clues and just about every SB had some kind of hint in it,I loved the lil car in the grapes. I think FF did a swell job and would hate to say something out of time but I have some questions as well. I hope and pray that I have not said anything too soon or out of line. I think I was the one referd to as the blind hitch hiker.  I am not a very good writer so forgive me. I can tell you everything I have wrote is true.FJT

PS-UNTILL i GET A OK FROM SOMEONE i WISH NOT TO SAY TO MUCH-

(A LOT IS IN THE FIRST LINE)A LOT
I don't even know if I am putting this in here right

[omni]

Jul 4, 2020 18:42:41 GMT -5 @ogitsumyw said:

I don't think it was on land where it would be illegal to take it. IMO people need to really consider why he would not do such a thing because it makes no sense to use an uneducated guess.

Like Zap said, Forrest has always said that revealing the location and solution will be up to the finder. We all knew this, and if you didn't, perhaps you should have researched it before joining the chase.

I think we will find out more, but that won't happen until the crazies lose all their frivelous lawsuits.

He also said he was going to make that spot work no matter what. It's not like he picked the spot beforehand based on the type of land.

What happened was that the legal status of the land changed. There were far fewer problems before this. After it happened, suddenly he wanted everyone to wait 30 days before they decided.

[Deleted]

Jul 5, 2020 0:38:29 GMT -5 omni said:

Jul 4, 2020 18:42:41 GMT -5 @ogitsumyw said:

I don't think it was on land where it would be illegal to take it. IMO people need to really consider why he would not do such a thing because it makes no sense to use an uneducated guess.

Like Zap said, Forrest has always said that revealing the location and solution will be up to the finder. We all knew this, and if you didn't, perhaps you should have researched it before joining the chase.

I think we will find out more, but that won't happen until the crazies lose all their frivelous lawsuits.

He also said he was going to make that spot work no matter what. It's not like he picked the spot beforehand based on the type of land.

What happened was that the legal status of the land changed. There were far fewer problems before this. After it happened, suddenly he wanted everyone to wait 30 days before they decided.

I disagree, no status changed, the land always was, is, and will be a legal spot.

[zaphod73491]

Jul 4, 2020 16:10:39 GMT -5 sangre said:

All I’m talking about is the solution to a puzzle. For example:

E T E T W W W
T H E O A A A
T E S O S Y Y
S E A N Y R T
C C C E H T E
W A S H E E S
R A N T S N R

there’s a six-word sentence forming a symmetrical pattern and meaning “it is not very hard to find out how.” Can you find the pattern and write the sentence below?

Hi Sangre: no one bit on your puzzle, so let me at least throw out some observations I made about it. First thing I considered was the letter count relative to the word count. Highly unlikely that your six-word sentence would contain 49 letters, averaging over 8 letters per word. So some fraction of the letters are just there to help conceal the message.

There are no rare letters, and the incidence of coincidence is over 9% -- consistent (if a bit high) for English. I also noted the WWW triplet (probably deliberate on your part), and I'm guessing not all W's appear in the 6-word sentence. Same goes for the CCC triplet.

Your key hint is that the letters and/or words of the sentence form a symmetrical pattern -- that reduces the number of permutations tremendously. It's not one of the most obvious patterns, e.g. spiraling, snaking up and down or left and right, or a regular skip count of 2 or 3 along one of those paths. It's possible the 7x7 arrangement itself is scrambling the message (though with the number of letters being the square of a prime number, there are no other complete matrices of different dimensions).

Anyway, just wanted to let you know someone was playing with it. :-)

[sangre]

Thanks Zap. Appreciate it! The words in the six-word sentence are all three-letter words. For example, the three-letter diagonals, reading outward, make the sentence: SHE SAW HER CAR.

[crm114]

Jul 4, 2020 16:10:39 GMT -5 sangre said:

All I’m talking about is the solution to a puzzle. For example:

E T E T W W W
T H E O A A A
T E S O S Y Y
S E A N Y R T
C C C E H T E
W A S H E E S
R A N T S N R

there’s a six-word sentence forming a symmetrical pattern and meaning “it is not very hard to find out how.” Can you find the pattern and write the sentence below?

Something involving those and some of the words:
Try the way too see was sea ten any

I think forrest giving away the nature of the blaze is too much. If Fenn wanted to give 90 percent of people some closure, he could do something I suggested before: give the hundreds digit of the elevation. If the chest was at about 6185, he would say "1.". This would keep the mystery, but about 90 percent of us would know we were wrong.

[sangre]

Crm114, yeah I agree- that’s a good idea about giving us the elevation or a portion of the elevation.

TRY THE SEA TOO - is another four-word symmetrical sentence that can be formed, but it’s not the correct solution.