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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 23, 2024 7:33:45 GMT -5
Instructions for The Piano Player hunt: 1. This is a totally armchair treasure hunt. No travel is required. 2. Winner must have a US address 3. If you are working with a team, please select one player to be the spokesperson. This will help eliminate confusion on my part. 4. A correct answer will include a minimum of six steps leading from the poem (step #1) to the full name of the piano player (step #6). You can add additional steps if you are not sure, but there are six that must be listed for your answer to be correct.
5. Send your answers to me via messaging here on Mysterious Writings.
6. If you have the name of the piano player, but not all the required 6 steps, I will tell you it is incorrect. 7. Please wait for my reply before submitting additional attempts. 8. This hunt requires some research, so have fun and good luck! Each of the six steps will be associated with the step before it and the step after it, but all steps they are not necessarily associated with each other. Sort of like (but exactly like) Six Degrees of Separation, with each step bringing you closer to the name of the piano player. Be sure to collect all the steps as you wind your way though this bit of forgotten history :-) Good luck! FHH |
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 23, 2024 7:37:09 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 26, 2024 9:30:04 GMT -5
Everyone knows to start with the poem, but it can take you in so many directions.
The key is to select the right direction.
The clues are all there :-)
Good luck! |
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jun 29, 2024 15:38:59 GMT -5
I have received a few incorrect answers so far. Most start with the newspaper where they found the poem. To help you with the first step, I will tell you the newspaper(s) that published the poem do not have anything to do with the solution.
Good luck!
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jul 2, 2024 9:35:46 GMT -5
The poem itself tells you where these steps begin. It's about MOTHER, but might suggest something else.
Good luck!
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jon
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Post by jon on Jul 2, 2024 11:32:57 GMT -5
OH NO you mean to tell me its not Billy Joel LOL
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jul 5, 2024 18:20:20 GMT -5
I've had a few questions about the poem and I'll answer them here:
The poem is copied (cut and paste) from the newspaper, so if you see a typo, that's in the original, not something I added. Also, I have not hidden anything in the poem or in the background of the poem. Any irregularities are in the original typesetting and printing and should not affect the meaning of the words or what you need to solve this hunt.
The clue in the poem is in the words as they are written (nothing hidden, no acrostics or anagrams etc) and I have not added or altered anything other than cutting off the rest of the poem - and the part I cut off you do not need to solve the first step, which will set you on the right path to the piano player.
Good luck!
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jul 6, 2024 19:29:19 GMT -5
I have received a correct answer and will post the winner, solution and prizes tomorrow.
Congratulations to the winner!
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jul 7, 2024 10:36:42 GMT -5
The correct answer was sent in by Jen from the ZTeam. Congratulations, Jen!
The correct solution to this hunt included the following steps: 1. Poem – Mother's "velvet kisses"
2. Velvet Kisses – an old candy
3. H.L. Hildreth, inventor/ owner of Velvet Kisses candy company
4. Velvet Hotel at Old Orchard Beach, ME, owned by H.L. Hildreth (Name changed to Emerson Hotel, but not a required step)
5. Great Fire of 1907 (Old Orchard Beach), August 15, 1907 – Emerson Hotel burned along with 16 other hotels
6. Anna A. Groce was the piano player at the Velvet/Emerson Hotel in 1907
7. Anna Adams Groce was the full name of the piano player
Links to each of these steps:
Again, congratulations to Jen and the ZTeam, and thank you all for playing!
-FHH
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jul 7, 2024 10:38:54 GMT -5
Poem with hints to Velvet Kisses candy:
No SWEETER woman...
A flower of SWEETNESS...
The soft roseleaf of her VELVET KISSES...
Too much for TONGUE to tell (refers to taste)...
Bringing the old time SWEETNESS back (bringing back the old time candy, VELVET KISSES)
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Post by Fire Dragon 🐉 on Jul 7, 2024 10:50:56 GMT -5
Congratulations 🎉
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Post by forgottenhistoryhunt on Jul 7, 2024 11:10:53 GMT -5
Prizes for this hunt: A 1906 souvenir book from Old Orchard Beach, so shows all the grand hotels before the fire, and a postcard showing the Velvet Hotel. The image I used was just an AI-generated image I got using the keywords "Old Hotel" and "Fire". I was amazed at how much it resembled the Velvet Hotel, and was better than any actual images of the fire :-)
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Post by meganlyniam on Jul 7, 2024 11:21:25 GMT -5
Poem with hints to Velvet Kisses candy:
No SWEETER woman...
A flower of SWEETNESS...
The soft roseleaf of her VELVET KISSES...
Too much for TONGUE to tell (refers to taste)...
Bringing the old time SWEETNESS back (bringing back the old time candy, VELVET KISSES)
What does this have to do with finding a piano player?  |
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Post by susb8383 on Jul 7, 2024 11:26:52 GMT -5
Poem with hints to Velvet Kisses candy:
No SWEETER woman...
A flower of SWEETNESS...
The soft roseleaf of her VELVET KISSES...
Too much for TONGUE to tell (refers to taste)...
Bringing the old time SWEETNESS back (bringing back the old time candy, VELVET KISSES)
What does this have to do with finding a piano player? FHH said that this hunt was finding six degrees of separation, beginning with the poem and ending with the piano player.
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Post by Fire Dragon 🐉 on Jul 7, 2024 11:34:08 GMT -5
Another great hunt FHH !,Appreciate the time and energy you put into them.
Even if I don’t always get a chance to work on them or solve them 😃😉
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