#7 poem

[matthew]

Another challenging poem and artwork.

I have no clues on this one. 

I think the offspring could have been timber.

I though the tears was a fall rain creating a river but no words to tell me that story.

Anyways can't figure out a road name or landmark or village to start from. Anyone have ideas or guesses?

[doubtsevenhere]

I think this is probably the most difficult puzzle - the general area can be located fairly easily, but the final object not so much.

[matthew]

So I've been thinking about this one. I have a location but it conflicts with one element.

I haven't yet figured out the bugs/insects and how to use them yet. Does the lady bug mean something here? Any suggestions?

[matthew]

7 days later and I am still coming up empty here. Maybe my google search and map skills aren't good enough to solve this one.

For me the poem first led me to the battle of edgehill and red horse in Tysoe, but that conflicts with some of the animal imagery in the image.

Every idea I think of I cannot find a connection.

Anyone else picking up on any particular sentence of item that led them beyond just the village/town?

[handigeharry]

Same here, I have solved the majority of pages by now, but I'm getting absolutely nowhere with this one. Really struggling with finding a location.

[stercox]

Did anyone find a utility for the watch in the areas you're looking in? My area of interest feels like it's on the right track, but cannot get much to link up, like the watch. And I seem to be missing much of the history that satisfies some of the riddle as well. It becomes very hard to tell if you're on the right track for this one.

[iamtron]

Jul 31, 2020 10:28:29 GMT -5 stercox said:

Did anyone find a utility for the watch in the areas you're looking in? My area of interest feels like it's on the right track, but cannot get much to link up, like the watch. And I seem to be missing much of the history that satisfies some of the riddle as well. It becomes very hard to tell if you're on the right track for this one.

It also has a way of making you be indecisive on several puzzles, despite being 100% in the right location, and looking at the right thing.  This only creates more possibilities to an already hard to solve 24 letters anagram..

Case in point: a 24 letter anagram has about 500000 possibilities if the answer is 4 or 5 words. Now add about 5 or 6 puzzles that are nearly impossible to decide the correct object even knowing you are in the right spot. That exponentially increases the possibilities.

Couple that with no clear way to unscramble the letters... Sounds to me like this hunt is written in a way that requires intervention of the author in order to be solved. Great, if you want it to go the full 3 years.

[retro]

I believe I have finally solved #7. I was stuck between two towns or villages. It finally was when I went looking via other means that I figured out what this poem was trying to lead us to. I went looking for information about Banburyshire in new ways I hadn't really used up till that point.

Also anyone else notice the buried rabbit looks like the prize from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book) ?

[handigeharry]

Jul 31, 2020 13:00:35 GMT -5 retro said:

I believe I have finally solved #7. I was stuck between two towns or villages. It finally was when I went looking via other means that I figured out what this poem was trying to lead us to. I went looking for information about Banburyshire in new ways I hadn't really used up till that point.

Also anyone else notice the buried rabbit looks like the prize from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book) ?

Care to lift the tip of the veil?

[retro]

I won't be as helpful as I was with #23 solve. I don't have 24 solves yet like some others, though I am getting close with a partner, so I will hold this one a bit closer to the vest.

Others helped me see that the image itself can point to a specific village. Then I finally found my chosen answer without being on Maps or Wikipedia.

[handigeharry]

Haha, fair enough

[hyde123]

Jul 31, 2020 11:19:39 GMT -5 iamtron said:

Jul 31, 2020 10:28:29 GMT -5 stercox said:

Did anyone find a utility for the watch in the areas you're looking in? My area of interest feels like it's on the right track, but cannot get much to link up, like the watch. And I seem to be missing much of the history that satisfies some of the riddle as well. It becomes very hard to tell if you're on the right track for this one.

It also has a way of making you be indecisive on several puzzles, despite being 100% in the right location, and looking at the right thing.  This only creates more possibilities to an already hard to solve 24 letters anagram..

Case in point: a 24 letter anagram has about 500000 possibilities if the answer is 4 or 5 words. Now add about 5 or 6 puzzles that are nearly impossible to decide the correct object even knowing you are in the right spot. That exponentially increases the possibilities.

Couple that with no clear way to unscramble the letters... Sounds to me like this hunt is written in a way that requires intervention of the author in order to be solved. Great, if you want it to go the full 3 years.

I'm also finding the 24 letter anagram difficult. My biggest problem is not knowing which of my answers may be incorrect.

[davebakedpotato]

Jul 31, 2020 11:19:39 GMT -5 iamtron said:

Jul 31, 2020 10:28:29 GMT -5 stercox said:

Did anyone find a utility for the watch in the areas you're looking in? My area of interest feels like it's on the right track, but cannot get much to link up, like the watch. And I seem to be missing much of the history that satisfies some of the riddle as well. It becomes very hard to tell if you're on the right track for this one.

It also has a way of making you be indecisive on several puzzles, despite being 100% in the right location, and looking at the right thing.  This only creates more possibilities to an already hard to solve 24 letters anagram..

Case in point: a 24 letter anagram has about 500000 possibilities if the answer is 4 or 5 words. Now add about 5 or 6 puzzles that are nearly impossible to decide the correct object even knowing you are in the right spot. That exponentially increases the possibilities.

Couple that with no clear way to unscramble the letters... Sounds to me like this hunt is written in a way that requires intervention of the author in order to be solved. Great, if you want it to go the full 3 years.

Yeah, I've pretty much bailed out on this one, once I realised a 24 letter anagram would be rather hard plus the ambiguity of the mini-hunt put me off. Good luck all.

[stercox]

Anybody have any luck with this? I'm in the right area, but still cannot get this to hook up. I tried all sorts of historical references for the area, I am just missing something. Cannot not tie in the watch or the Masquerade references? I know kinda what I'm looking for, its the last of the 24 that I need, so I know what it likely starts with, just cannot find a corresponding object.

[handigeharry]

Sept 14, 2020 22:11:48 GMT -5 stercox said:

Anybody have any luck with this? I'm in the right area, but still cannot get this to hook up. I tried all sorts of historical references for the area, I am just missing something. Cannot not tie in the watch or the Masquerade references? I know kinda what I'm looking for, its the last of the 24 that I need, so I know what it likely starts with, just cannot find a corresponding object.

Nah, no luck on this side; still not sure about the location, let alone the object.

How do you know what letter it likely starts with? I thought the 24 letters were an anagram? Or do they form a unscrambled sentence after all? (In that case, I've got some wrong answers )