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Post by AJ on Jul 17, 2020 19:44:09 GMT -5
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Post by GeneticBlend on Jul 17, 2020 20:07:27 GMT -5
I like the solution. I had some parts of it correct, but of course, other, more important parts, incorrect! But now reading the answers and explanations, it seems easier than what I expected.
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Post by susb8383 on Jul 17, 2020 20:13:09 GMT -5
ARGGGGGGG!!!! That’s the very tree I searched for about an hour.
I think I’m done with treasure hunting.
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Post by dalby2020 on Jul 17, 2020 20:32:11 GMT -5
ARGGGGGGG!!!! That’s the very tree I searched for about an hour. I think I’m done with treasure hunting. Were you really at the correct tree at Stage Fort Park? Ouch!! When you mentioned Ravenswood Park recently, I wondered why. I didn't make the connection to clue #4. Nice job nonetheless. And again - congratulations to the finders. My Walden Pond solve was way off (as was my candlepin bowling idea). Now I'm glad I never went BOTG for the Fenn treasure. But there's still Fandango to look forward to!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2020 21:26:36 GMT -5
I like the solution. I had some parts of it correct, but of course, other, more important parts, incorrect! But now reading the answers and explanations, it seems easier than what I expected. I agree - I had some things originally but I thought "that's too easy" so I ended up overthinking the clues. I kept dismissing Half Moon Beach as not it because it just seemed too easy — honestly, not that I live close enough to BOTG during COVID anyway. So then I ended up going a different route and scouring over Lynn, MA area with the thought of Brooklyn being the place of the great tempest (you know, since this was the storm referenced IN the book). My thinking was Brook+Lynn = Brooklyn. Which I thought was very clever — but apparently WAAAY off. I think I went into the clues too far; but I really thought the other location was just too easy of an answer. *shrugs* "Samosite! I was waay off" (This is how I feel right now)
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Post by susb8383 on Jul 18, 2020 5:37:40 GMT -5
Yup, I really was. Sandra was yards away in her book. I was inches away. I probably put my hand in that very crack.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 7:44:10 GMT -5
You at least put the clues together correctly to get to the correct spot, so there’s that. You can at least have validation that you got it.
I think the hardest part for me, living in another area, is that if the clues were supposed to relate back to the book, the only storm she talked about in the book was Hurricane Sandy. This seemed like the most relevant answer to the great tempest line - at least for someone who’s not a New Englander and was trying to follow the clues in the way she stated.
But, it was not the right answer so it is what it is.
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Post by susb8383 on Jul 18, 2020 9:13:38 GMT -5
You at least put the clues together correctly to get to the correct spot, so there’s that. You can at least have validation that you got it. I think the hardest part for me, living in another area, is that if the clues were supposed to relate back to the book, the only storm she talked about in the book was Hurricane Sandy. This seemed like the most relevant answer to the great tempest line - at least for someone who’s not a New Englander and was trying to follow the clues in the way she stated. But, it was not the right answer so it is what it is. No...actually you were the one who suggested Stage Fort in our messages. I only put it together with Tablet Rock and 'go around' to mean go around the rock. You also suggested 21 being a reference to 'half' since it was halfway through the book.
Sorry I wasn't better at searching for you!
Agreed, I thought the storm had to relate to the Superstorm chapter too.
I think I'm the most disappointed at Clue #6. There's a little point cut out of the paper pointing at Hook's mouth. I felt sure that was the 'point at which you are hopefully hooked." I mean, how could it not be? I thought I had discovered something relevant that nobody else noticed. And then the fact that she uses 'smile' exactly 21 times in the book seemed to clinch it.
I'm still disappointed that there was no math involved in Clue #3 (or numbers, really). What's that about?
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Post by dalby2020 on Jul 18, 2020 9:20:56 GMT -5
I'm now wondering about tbe "treasure muscles you must flex" . I did't see that explained. Was it simply to rhyme with X?
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Post by susb8383 on Jul 18, 2020 9:30:54 GMT -5
Maybe. You did have to walk up a stone staircase to start, but it wasn't a very long staircase. Yeah, that doesn't really fit either.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 10:36:12 GMT -5
After seeing the explanations, I think the only math involved was calculating 284 from the two years on tablet rock. It appears there was no math involved with the actual five numbers from the chapters but instead, only with the confirmation. Again, another reason I thought the Brook + Lynn = Brooklyn was clever because it’s a mathematical equation but with words instead of variables or constants. Early on - before learning how close the proxy was placed - I thought the word hooked was referencing the Cape in Massachusetts or was at very least another indication that Massachusetts was the correct state. I did not get the fishing reference from it. Additionally, I considered the “great tempest” a reference to the storm that caused the Whydah pirate ship to crash off of the Cape (just north of Nahant beach which she mentioned in the book from her childhood memories). But once again, this was not the storm referenced in the book and I couldn’t fit any other clues to that area. Lol - one of many areas I considered while trying to piece things together .
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Post by susb8383 on Jul 18, 2020 11:23:49 GMT -5
Yeah...bothers me that she said math is needed to solve "this one" on Clue 3. Doesn't that mean needed to solve Clue 3?
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Post by HopefulLeigh on Jul 18, 2020 21:06:49 GMT -5
Anyone else anagram Robert Deniro Taxi Driver to "trove x ride in at ri border?" We were convinced the park had to be on the RI border! And there are two great parks we explored - Beach Pond and Pulaski Park (Peck pond).
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Post by susb8383 on Jul 19, 2020 7:21:28 GMT -5
Ha. No but I was sure that Clue #2 used morse code around the border. If you look at the top near the left, she put a stone between two shells which looked really deliberate. There are 13 letters you can get from the border. And there are 13 letters/spaces in the final Robert Deniro phrase, so I was trying to match up the Deniro letters or spaces with the border letters to find something meaningful.
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Post by susb8383 on Jul 21, 2020 11:16:07 GMT -5
I just went back to the scene of the crime (I have some unfinished business.) Out of all searching I did, that's the one crack that I didn't reach into. Why I couldn't tell you because now it seems obvious. But oddly enough, I feel better, like it just wasn't meant to be. There's only one thing left to do.... youtu.be/TUfPR74D13I
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