Treasure Clue, can you help?

[Relddir]

Hi Again,

Just one last thought. One definition of grotto is an artificial structure or excavation made to resemble a cave or cavern. If you put that together with "token" then Subway Station sounds interesting. This may be a stretch but I thought I'd share.

Relddir

 

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[CMSCHUT]

VIC , Once again you've outdone yourself . i think you have brought us excellent ideas to throw around and i enjoyed the site you posted for us all . it helped explain alot of my questions on waxing and waning . thinking of the cresent moons what about on outhouses , sorry i had to say it . no i'm not serious , but it would be a safe place . just needed some humor to share after a hard day at work . i enjoy your posts and great ideas .

SCOTT, i haven't had time to check out that site , but am glad for the help anything to help me on these codes is appreciated . your post has me hopeful this will help . looks like your onto something there .

SALKNS, what made you think of the diamond shape ? looks as if everyone's had their thinking caps on today i feel far behind .

 

[hoppperr]

SALKNS: I just bought the companion book, and I think you are on to something with the diamond shape. On the title page is a diamond shaped clock. No other clock puzzle references, but other pictures of clocks and also a picture of a key (like you'd need to wind an antique "grandfather-like" clock. Also very interesting is how time plays into the story so much. Noon, morning sky, etc. etc.

The other interesting things I've noticed about the companion puzzle book are:

the picture of the marbles.

the fact that he shows morse code in puzzle 31 and we find morse code on page 31 of the book.

there are 13 treasure hunts in the beginning of the companion book and we have 13 puzzles to solve.

how many pages he devotes to the Beale puzzle.

 

[CMSCHUT]

Hoppperr , wow great observations . i really need to get my companion book back. good morning to everyone . just thought i'd run something quirky by you all. on the today show the quiz today was ... in folklore .... what is it said that gnomes are supposed to be guarding ? answer is hidden treasures . i know its weird , but those little guys are everywhere . have a great day all , carol

 

[CMSCHUT]

Relddir , i like your ideas . and something to think about . i always thought he called them tokens in a way to give the piece a name for want of a better word . what does anyone else think of this ? have a great day everyone .

 

[luckypony]

Hello all, first time to post but have been dropping in from time to time. I just thought I would add something about the moon. In Austin there are some rare moonlights http://www.experienceaustin.com/seethis/Moonlights.html.

Heres another thought, hope I'm not repeating anything, but if you look at the pic upside down
it looks like a landscape with a road.

 

[Gemini]

Another interesting angle to the diamond pattern.? It eats up 13 slots in the 5 X 5 square (the number of jewels) and leaves 12 behind (the number of jewels we started with).

Well, I finally got away from work, and tomorrow morning I get up early and head off to search for my first token, testing my theory. Of course, I am dying to give my destination away--it seems so perfect based on the clues, but I will wait until I am a bit closer as I am still 2-3 hours away.

However, in the past two days of my vacation--the following has happened (some of this may give some of you clues as to where I am right now):

1.? ?I walk into my hotel room and discover a destination booklet the name of which is "The treasures you will find here"

2.? ?I find a radio station here that plays great 60s and 70s music.? Only after the third or fourth song did I discover that the call letters for the station are KJUL (K-Jewel).

3.? I stop at a great sidewalk cafe and saw a type of wine on the menu I love but rarely see. When I looked at the vineyard producing it, I discovered it to be "Jewel Valley"

4.? If my theory is right, the token I will find will be for the ladybug (the least valuable of them all, alas).? Five minutes after leaving the aforementioned cafe, I pass the Ladybug Nursery on the highway.

5. This morning I went to the art museum here. I turn a corner in the exhibition gallery and there staring me straight in the face is a floor to ceiling sized painting of a petrified tree with a huge knothole in the center of it.

Wish me well.? I will say this much--I do believe the sanctuary of the jewels is a knothole--too much in the book leads us in that path and the claims of why that would not work do not convince me, given my theory of WHERE the knotholes are.? Also, I find it odd that people are not questioning the Old English spelling of 'tweleve' but question the Old English spelling of 'rizing' and gulden' in the anagram I unearthed:? Look in me, look in me, under rizing moon a gulden prize you will see" (Moonlike, moonlike...).? Might that anagram be trying to tell us that the trees we're searching for all have knotholes on their eastern side (since the moon rises in the east)?

Final clue:? maybe it's just coincidence, but this "just happens" to be the 100th anniversary of something very important that has a strong connection to our story.? I have to believe Stadther wrote the book with the goal of having us respect that anniversary AND make money to boot.

By 7 pm Friday EST I should know if my theory is valid. I have high hopes but only moderate expectations. I'll share what I learn with the many of you who have helped shape the solutions along the way.

Gemini (a HE, not a SHE, by the way).

 

[luckypony]

Hello again just looked over my post and saw I must have left out the page #, you must have been thinking I was pretty silly, anyway it is 57.

Gemini, sounds exciting, GOOD LUCK, can't wait to hear about the rest of your adventure!

 

[zuse]

Gemini - GOOD LUCK! I have lots of partial idreas, but nothing good enough to get in the car yet.

2005 is the 100th anniversary of the US Forest Service. The landmark 1905 American Forest Congress lead to the creation of the agency.

Zuse

 

[luckypony]

April 22 is the 100th ANNAversary of Earth Day ! I plan to go on a hunt that day.
I do not have exact location but the area is a Treasure Trove in its self !

 

[LitDoc]

Has anyone questioned why the illustration of Pook under the covers (page 62) is in black and white only? I don't recall any other illustration without color.

 

[luckypony]

I think that page is also a landscape.

Heres another interesting web site I just came across http://www.esbnyc.com/tourism/tourism_lightingschedule_current.cfm

 

[nolemiester]

Litdoc, about the picture of pook on page 62. If you trace the picture and color the parts that were white in the picture black and leave the parts that were black white, the picture looks almost like a mountain range.

---Nolan

 

[Little Casino]

Gemini

Good luck, Sounds like the perfect place. Hope to hear good news Fri. night.

 

[Gemini]

Thanks L.C.

Seeing as I just walked through a little casino moments before I read your post, I would have to say the energy karma for my hunt continues.

But many others on this board have been as sure or more so of their theories only to turn up empty handed and I respect their smarts on this quest more than mine.

Still...you never know...

Gemini

 

[salkns]

Gemini, Go get it!!!!!!

 

[Trapape]

Gemini - Good Luck and I hope you find your treasure. ?Can't wait to hear about it on Friday.
Until then HAPPY HUNTING!!
Salkns - I read a little bit about the diamond shaped 5x5 on TWELEVE.COM and it does sound like a way to go but you must first believe that the subpoem is true. ?Have you looked ontdo lyricalashs' poem at all? ?I have started to spend some time with how he describes solving it but have yet to do so.

 

[Trapape]

Just a thought, but instead of using the 5 digit numbere that are found throughout the book for zip codes how about if they were used to help in identify a location by how big it is. An example is Trail Ridge topping at 12,183 ft. Just a thought.

 

[lissa178]

Hi All!

I'm new to this but I've read through most of everything written here so far.

One thought... someone mentioned state seals earlier on.? The state seal of Oklahoma is a large 5 pointed star inside a circle... just like the one mixed in with all of the tools (in the border).?

http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/seals/ok_seal.htm

Sorry if this has been mentioned already.? I thought it was interesting...

 

[lissa178]

One more link that might be helpful... here is a list of all the known moontree locations.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/moon_tree.html

I noticed Washington Square in Philadelphia and at Valley Forge, in the International Forest of Friendship...