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Post by whotrollsnigh on Jun 16, 2020 11:11:55 GMT -5
Shortly after f made his announcement that the treasure was found, Chris LaFrieda ( dalneitzel.com/tag/chris-lafrieda/) posted the following comments on Dal's blog: "Wow. There were many puzzles in the book. When you solve them you get a phone #. When you call it says "Think like a hard fisher". I think there are another set of puzzles after that, but I haven't finished them. Congrats."
"Should say there a bunch of hidden treasures on the fish photo page. You make little 'scrapbooks' to find them."
"And page 129 is an insert that comes out. The hidden images show how to start the folds on that page."The comments have since disappeared. Can anyone confirm his claims? |
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Post by vibeup on Jun 16, 2020 11:37:26 GMT -5
The poem and a good map are all that is required. Anything else can be explained by entropy.
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Post by miracleman on Jun 16, 2020 11:47:36 GMT -5
Sounds like he’s “overcooking” the book!  Seems like a smart guy though, so is a bit odd that he would write something out there like this. You sure he was the one leaving the comments? |
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Post by astree on Jun 16, 2020 11:54:00 GMT -5
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I believe there is enough confusion and frustration at this point without that post and others likewise, making those kind of claims without supporting evidence.
At the very least, it is additional information that is not needed. I believe that the poem is all one needs to figure out what is necessary to retrieve the treasure, based on forest comments and my own work interpreting the lines of the poem
Since the poster already produced the result of the supposed 800 number found, why won't they just give the 800 number? That Would not reveal the methodology and of course they could buy 800 number but at least it would require more than 30 seconds of time to make a post
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Post by whotrollsnigh on Jun 16, 2020 12:36:26 GMT -5
. I believe there is enough confusion and frustration at this point without that post and others likewise, making those kind of False claims At the very least, it is additional information that is not needed. I believe that the poem is all one needs to figure out what is necessary to retrieve the treasure, based on forest comments and my own work interpreting the lines of the poem Since the poster already produced the result of the supposed 800 number found, why won't they just give the 800 number? That Would not reveal the methodology and of course they could buy 800 number but at least it would require more than 30 seconds of time to make a post I agree. But then the comments were removed. So who removed them and why? Certainly they could have been removed because they are false claims. But they also could have been removed because they are part of the correct solution, and f does not want the solution exposed (yet). I don't want to propagate false claims, but given the relationship between the LaFrieda, Dal and f, the comments may deserve further discussion. |
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Post by thetruthisoutthere on Jun 16, 2020 13:28:07 GMT -5
Dal deletes comments for all sorts of reasons, and I don't always see a clear reason why. I've had comments deleted which I thought were completely OK and had others I thought might be over the line stay up. I wouldn't read too much into what gets taken down over there. Dal reads and reviews hundreds of comments a day. Maybe some comments just rub him the wrong way for reasons we'll never know. Since he's doing all that work and paying for the server and storage space he can run things as he sees fit. I have a lot of respect for what he's doing. If I was doing the moderation I would've taken down a lot more than he has.
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Post by woollybugger on Jun 16, 2020 13:34:12 GMT -5
Shortly after f made his announcement that the treasure was found, Chris LaFrieda ( dalneitzel.com/tag/chris-lafrieda/) posted the following comments on Dal's blog: "Wow. There were many puzzles in the book. When you solve them you get a phone #. When you call it says "Think like a hard fisher". I think there are another set of puzzles after that, but I haven't finished them. Congrats."
"Should say there a bunch of hidden treasures on the fish photo page. You make little 'scrapbooks' to find them."
"And page 129 is an insert that comes out. The hidden images show how to start the folds on that page."The comments have since disappeared. Can anyone confirm his claims? Thank you! That's where I saw it... about the poem being an insert. Must be why I couldn't find the reference anymore. There is no reason (to my knowledge) for that page to be bound the way that it is. I absolutely think there is a purpose to it, coupled with a NYT piece saying how specific Fenn was about the publishing and binding of the book. As for the pictures showing you how to fold it, no clue. |
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Post by brianu on Jun 16, 2020 13:37:36 GMT -5
Interesting 🤓. This gives me a thousand ideas. Not sure about the phone number part, but the paper folding and scrapbook ing makes for a million rabbit holes.
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Post by astree on Jun 16, 2020 13:37:48 GMT -5
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Are you guys talking about The Thrill of the Chase book, that has the poem on p. 132? I didn't notice any insert.
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Post by woollybugger on Jun 16, 2020 13:39:58 GMT -5
One I would add to this list is the Lanier School photo. This has always felt like a puzzle to me as well. The incomplete circles were digitally placed as there are two pairs of identical marks. Edard and Kacir have the same marks and Pat and Skippy do. Of course Fenn is not circled but pointed to, and Marvin noted in the caption.
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Post by woollybugger on Jun 16, 2020 13:40:37 GMT -5
Yes Astree, look at the binding closely.
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Post by woollybugger on Jun 16, 2020 13:48:09 GMT -5
. Are you guys talking about The Thrill of the Chase book, that has the poem on p. 132? I didn't notice any insert. Here's a quick image - The folded page was glued in mid-chapter which makes no sense since it's mid story and contains the focal point of the entire book. Everything else is tied in sections.
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Post by locolobo on Jun 16, 2020 14:28:22 GMT -5
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Post by goldilocks on Jun 16, 2020 14:37:31 GMT -5
Forrest has mentioned "tipped in" and "tip in" in SB's etc. - this is a publishing/printing term referring to when you add a memento, illustration, signature etc. to a book. I've also looked at the binding in past to see what could have been tipped in, printed on different stock etc. but never really found anything. Now that the hunt is over now is as good a time as any to turn my book into an origami project!
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Post by woollybugger on Jun 16, 2020 14:37:50 GMT -5
Ha, what once was old becomes new again... alright fine. If it's edition specific forget it. Sounded promising.
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