Post by Domino on Feb 15, 2022 13:29:09 GMT -5
The Silver Key (solution)
In an effort to provide full disclosure, I did not ever work on this hunt, have the CD, view the threads or the website until about two weeks before this solve when it came to my attention that the organizer had revealed that it was in North Carolina after the hunt had ended that September.
I then went and read all 11 pages of the thread and visited the website of The Silver Key to see what was there, viewing the hints they provided.
I was forwarded the organizers email address by another treasure hunter in a PM one day. They thought that I would be willing to retrieve it when a rumor that the organizer would like someone to retrieve the key had come out. Well, the treasure hunter in me wanted to come to some revelations of my own before a solution published. So while waiting to hear back after emailing the creator, I formulated a solution based on what treasure hunters had solved and shared on the Tweleve Forum posts and my own experiences in w/ parks around North Carolina. It took some poking around in the area the clues revealed but I found it (along with a 1953 silver dime)! It was actually at the very first tree I had started at from the solution and I had neglected to search the entire base properly. I looked at it again, went back and there it was. Alas, here is what I feel you would have needed to solve the hunt, after you knew it was in North Carolina.
I found the Silver Key based on this info:
post #69 (MDC777) stated missing song “In One” - ONE spelled backwards is ENO; I had followed a similar theory working Gris Gris Doll years ago. I was excited to see this as I know Eno River State Park like it was my back yard. (I have no idea what the NC state clue was)
Once I theorized Eno, it was an easy map match to the website map clue: www.enoriver.org/eno/Maps/ersp05/West-pm.pdf
“Where the Blue Meets the Blue…” this is the key clue needed to work with another clue you had (set/sex) These are Blue Dot trails. The “T” junction is where the trail wraps back around on itself, hence, “blue meets blue.”
“T marks spot.” SET intersects, SET to SEX ~ OK, turn the “T” into an “X” and you are there (This puzzle/clue was fantastic)
“Got to find a way” = It’s off a path that must be identified.
You take Hwy. 147 (47) to get there, though I think 47 is the number of steps you take from the “T” in a straight line to make the X which puts you at the “Y” tree. Yes, there are “Beeches” trees there. “You’ll pine a little…” -there is a small pine just before the “great big Y” tree where the key was hiding
Other: ok, some lead up clues- “Next to Capital…” Raleigh is the capital and Eno is north of Durham which is right next to Raleigh. And “green road”- the road to get out there to the park is Pleasant Green Road.
*Unless the “daughter of royalty” stuff mentioned was supposed to be about Virginia Dare in some way to lead to NC, I still have no idea how or what song/puzzle that would have revealed NC.
It was fun. Thanks for all hard work of the other treasure hunters that worked on this back in these days. I wish I would have worked it with everyone all along.
As far as I know, the creator of this treasure hunt never supplied the solution from the treasure hunt’s original plan.
In an effort to provide full disclosure, I did not ever work on this hunt, have the CD, view the threads or the website until about two weeks before this solve when it came to my attention that the organizer had revealed that it was in North Carolina after the hunt had ended that September.
I then went and read all 11 pages of the thread and visited the website of The Silver Key to see what was there, viewing the hints they provided.
I was forwarded the organizers email address by another treasure hunter in a PM one day. They thought that I would be willing to retrieve it when a rumor that the organizer would like someone to retrieve the key had come out. Well, the treasure hunter in me wanted to come to some revelations of my own before a solution published. So while waiting to hear back after emailing the creator, I formulated a solution based on what treasure hunters had solved and shared on the Tweleve Forum posts and my own experiences in w/ parks around North Carolina. It took some poking around in the area the clues revealed but I found it (along with a 1953 silver dime)! It was actually at the very first tree I had started at from the solution and I had neglected to search the entire base properly. I looked at it again, went back and there it was. Alas, here is what I feel you would have needed to solve the hunt, after you knew it was in North Carolina.
I found the Silver Key based on this info:
post #69 (MDC777) stated missing song “In One” - ONE spelled backwards is ENO; I had followed a similar theory working Gris Gris Doll years ago. I was excited to see this as I know Eno River State Park like it was my back yard. (I have no idea what the NC state clue was)
Once I theorized Eno, it was an easy map match to the website map clue: www.enoriver.org/eno/Maps/ersp05/West-pm.pdf
“Where the Blue Meets the Blue…” this is the key clue needed to work with another clue you had (set/sex) These are Blue Dot trails. The “T” junction is where the trail wraps back around on itself, hence, “blue meets blue.”
“T marks spot.” SET intersects, SET to SEX ~ OK, turn the “T” into an “X” and you are there (This puzzle/clue was fantastic)
“Got to find a way” = It’s off a path that must be identified.
You take Hwy. 147 (47) to get there, though I think 47 is the number of steps you take from the “T” in a straight line to make the X which puts you at the “Y” tree. Yes, there are “Beeches” trees there. “You’ll pine a little…” -there is a small pine just before the “great big Y” tree where the key was hiding
Other: ok, some lead up clues- “Next to Capital…” Raleigh is the capital and Eno is north of Durham which is right next to Raleigh. And “green road”- the road to get out there to the park is Pleasant Green Road.
*Unless the “daughter of royalty” stuff mentioned was supposed to be about Virginia Dare in some way to lead to NC, I still have no idea how or what song/puzzle that would have revealed NC.
It was fun. Thanks for all hard work of the other treasure hunters that worked on this back in these days. I wish I would have worked it with everyone all along.
As far as I know, the creator of this treasure hunt never supplied the solution from the treasure hunt’s original plan.