[TrulyUnruly]

It might be a good idea before digging up beaches, parks, etc. to read some park rules.

[merelyviral]

Hey all, I think I'm done with this hunt, at least for a long while. I went down to NYC at end of March and checked out my latest 'solution'. Unfortunately I didn't have a shovel or any good digging equipment, I just wanted to scout it out to see if anything jumped out at me. I don't plan on going back to that location, so I'm posting it on here for someone else to check out (and maybe split some of the treasure if it's there?)

I won't go through my entire solution, but let's just say that I have a path that, when drawn out, looks like the skeleton arm with pointed finger on the WLOG website (check out Episodes page, bottom right, pointing to Contact). Following the pointing finger on Google maps, I end up on the Brighton Beach boardwalk at a restaurant called Tatiana (not Tatiana Grill, which is a few doors down). At this point I thought "hmmmm, Tutty is pronounced the same as Tati in Tatiana". Walking straight out onto the beach from the restaurant, I counted 250 steps (I took small steps, to try to approximate feet). When I got to 250 exactly, I looked down and saw:



A giant piece of wood!! Sticking out of me head? I couldn't move it, and I had no way of digging under it, but, I suspect that the chest is right there. Anyway, if anyone is in the area or wants to go check it out, let me know (or post on here) how it goes!


While I was down there I also checked out Coney Island. If you walk from Coney Island Station directly 250 steps along the road towards the water, you get to the Coney Island amusement park, standing directly in front of a ride called Flying Eagle. I couldn't see any indication of what to do from there though.

[Tharol]

Think people are desperate to get clues in this people.

[ccl28]

rose wrote:

I wasn't looking because I thought it had already been found. Now I know that everyone is still looking, I think that I will spend some of my vacation time looking. Maybe we can put together a team to look for it.

Hi Rose. I would be interested in working with people that want to logically work from the first episode onward (imo, ep 1-3 are solved). There was a brief period, before my time, where people worked through episodes 1-3. I think that was the most productive time on the boards. Now, it seems that most try to match perceived clues in the last episode to locations in NYC. The problem is that the clues get more vague towards the end, and they can pretty much match anything anywhere.

[rose]

I wasn't looking because I thought it had already been found. Now I know that everyone is still looking, I think that I will spend some of my vacation time looking.

Maybe we can put together a team to look for it.

I don't know about the beach as being a place to look - but it seems like a place people could legally bury things. But it is legal to bury things a lot of places, it is only illegal in the city parks.

I agree that they made this way too hard by changing the whole theme at the end. Sometime s people need to use experienced puzzle designers - the problem is that when you know where something is, a puzzle can seem way too easy to solve.

[Tharol]

Check pages could be money scam for video.

[michnyc]

Sounds like a great plan Merely. Good luck to you. Sounds like you have figured out their secret codes.

Don't forget about 250 ft, look for the flying birdie or birdy and starting from the ship.

[merelyviral]

Still working on it... I make it down to NYC every March, so I get to check one solution per year, lol.

At the moment, I think the puzzle goes like this: Episodes 1-7 trace out a path through the city, then in Episode 8 they say "we should have been listening to Mulligan from the very beginning", which refers to the "Code of all Codes" (maybe also "switching C with P" and "Sill = Sele"). "Code of all Codes" says we have to trace the path and look at the resulting shape. So my path looks like an arm and a hand with a pointing finger, which has narrowed my search to a specific area.

Haven't figured out exactly where to look, but, I've thought about the kinds of places that one is allowed to bury something (and subsequently, where people would be allowed digging it up), and, somewhere that taking a video of it going into the ground would give something away. Conveniently, the area that I've narrowed down to has a beach, so that's my working theory. Not sure what kind of landmark on the beach would tell me where to dig, maybe that's the "piece of wood sticking out of my head", but you'd think the usual beach-combing treasure hunters with metal detectors might have found it by now?

[Tharol]

Personal recall there was a treasure find mission people really tore up buildings there basic they hadturn into virtual search viral.

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http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4680

[michnyc]

I agree with you CCL 28...hey, Puppet Masters, please provide an early holiday gift!

It just seems so confusing to me. All the best hidden treasure stories that still remain hidden have good keys. For instance, the Beale Code used the Declaration of Independence and some other I am sure, well known book at the time, or the mobster that buried some treasure near the Eospus River in NY using a compass on a map etc. WLOG treasure map, I just plain give up on.

Someone, please solve this or this may end up just like the ones I mentioned, UNSOLVED!

[ccl28]

I have no doubt these guys buried the 10k somewhere. The production value of the series is easily over 50k. There is no reason to go through all this trouble for a hoax.

However, they really need to start giving some additional clues to help solve this. It is clear that very few people are still working on this (and perhaps NO sane people are). Episodes 6, 7 and 8 are a huge mystery. I spent a lot of time breaking down episode 6 (look at my thread on this forum) and I'm not sure that I have even solved a single clue from that episode.

There is obviously a disconnect between the game designers who know the solution, and the players who tried hard to solve it. Some of the clues didn't translate. There were some really smart people who put some serious time into this. I can't imagine that somebody else will come along and solve it at this point (even with all the information on this forum). Many of us just want to see it solved.

The game designers have inexpensive ways to deliver more clues (facebook, twitter, even the website). We are long overdue for some.

[Tharol]

Think is probable no gold to be personal.

[michnyc]

Chest never taken off ship?

[Tharol]

Personal theory no treasure check.