Treasure Clue, can you help?

LitDoc · Mar 17, 2005

Trapeape, what do you mean "not followed through on"? We would like to follow through, but after finding them, we are not sure how they work into the puzzle. Help if you can, especially by letting us know what has been said about them on other forums. We would be beholden if you did.

Trapape · Mar 17, 2005

I haven't Read anything on other sites. Sorry that I can't help you there. I just feel that we are assuming that what is is. There is definately a spider on pg. 19 and 22. I brought up the reversed pook image because no one can deny that. But what I really wanted to see happen is people looking at it with a different mindset. I feel that the bold illustration of the reversed pook is a hint to lead us in the right sirection. If it took ten years to think and plan out this book do you really think that reverse imaging a dog in order to save time fits?

Tracie

nolemiester · Mar 17, 2005

Unlike an early post in which someone explained how they ripped out pages in their book to match pictures, i was thinking more along the lines of ripping out the pages and using the pages to match up the text and it might just shine a new light on this treasure hunt. According to the poem, "Within the text you have the key..., A code of numbers five to a side, reveals the name where the treasures abide." Maybe the numerical code would tell you which page numbers to match up. After you matched up the pages, you would be able to make a 5X5 grid exactly like the poem said. The matched up text might then reveal a totally different message. And although it wouldn't reveal an exact location (or would it? hehehe

) it might describe the place in which "the treasures abide." Now i know immediately after i make this post it will be shot down somehow LOL but i just wanted to see what you guys thought about the idea.

---Nolan

hoppperr · Mar 17, 2005

Trapape: I agree with you. Everyone in the story has a mate except for Pook. Are there two Pooks?

Nole: Like a giant jigsaw puzzle? Put the pages together in different ways to see what you get?

All: Did you know ATT was in BC comics this past weekend?

Scottziilla · Mar 18, 2005

"Anyone who can read can discover the exact location of each treasure...." MS
I have decided to take a "text only" approach to this . Mainly 'cause I suck at finding / solving the other puzzles. I was wondering if anybody else was looking at this the same way.

jewels1301 · Mar 18, 2005

I have been looking at the text to provide important information that will work with the numbers and other info in the pictures. So far, I have not come up with anything that has made any sense. I am working with multiple layers of different ciphers and keywords.

Jewels

Gaines · Mar 18, 2005

LitDoc,
I am warming more and more to the belief that the "one" in the poem is actually "on" and that the missing "e" is a HUGE clue. Same goes for the extra e's that you mentioned. I cannot say why right now (still working on it), but I believe that those omissions/mistakes are intentional to force us to think about "e". As for the "y" in "you" on page 21, I have no idea. It could be more of the same, although I have nothing at present that is causing me to focus on the letter "y". Bonnie

Goodhunting · Mar 18, 2005

My Brain Hurts said:
hey goodhunting ? ?

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Got It!

Cool!

CMSCHUT · Mar 18, 2005

GAINES, I agree with you and everyone else on the E in the poem. i made a b&w of that page last night and just outlined the letters in all of the poem. it does not come out to an E . believe me i was trying unsuccessfully to make it an E but couldnt. as stuck as i was on the idea it was an E in the poem i just had to admit finally that it wasnt. so i had an idea and at work today im going to work on this page. while i was tracing and trying to make an E appear , i had a thought there are more layers here in these letters and maybe that was the reason for the elusive E. so maybe we should start pee;ing away. im trying to say is maybe its a hint to get us to look past the trees and into the forest.

LitDoc · Mar 18, 2005

Response 1023: Yes, I do believe MS repeated a number of illustrations by reversing them: fairies, pook, thistles, moons. Whether this was to save time or to give a clue, I do not know.

muzette · Mar 18, 2005

O.K. I am at work so I dont know the exact page but I did run across something interesing last night after a couple coctails. It is one of the pictures on the lefthand side of the book. One of the great big boxed in letters that starts the paragraph. It is a black letter (a T, I THINK) anyways, there is a fairy in the box pointing to it. If you look carefully at the borders in the box there are several different shapes cut out. I dont think it was morris code because none of the lines were even, but the shapes are definatly different. It just jumped out at me as odd. I wish I knew the page number, to tell you. Will go home and look it up. Tell me what you think.

Muzette

LitDoc · Mar 18, 2005

OK, Muzette, you got us interested. Now drink some more cocktails so you can remember where it was!

By the way, the large ornate capital letter that appears at the beginning of each chapter is called a "drop cap" in the printing business. I thought that would save us some time of trying to describe that "thingy" with the fairies in them.

pancho_semplice · Mar 18, 2005

LitDoc, I wish I had been on a date!

I was actually out with friends doing my best impression of an irishman! I had fun, and it appears that I missed a LOT.

I have a lot going on today, and will be out of pocket for most of the weekend. Keep up the good work, and I'll touch base with you guys soon. And no, I'm not going away to get my token!

nolemiester · Mar 18, 2005

Can someone please verify the image within the hexagonal Knothole on page 16. The Tree is inside the dropcap. Has anyone figured out what it is yet? Also, it seems as if the image of the fence post on page 54 is an incomplete picture. I know that both of these topics have been brought up before but I was wondering if anyone had resolved it...?

---Nolan

LitDoc · Mar 18, 2005

WOW! There is something green in that knothole on page 16! Try scanning it and in PhotoShop (or the like) lightening it or in some way improve the contrast (i.e., "enhance color" option).

tomaf38 · Mar 18, 2005

muzette,

I think you are refering to page 52. It is an "O" in the dropcap. When I first saw the shapes in the boarder I thought it was flag code but have been unable to produce anything there. Also looks like Tangram shapes.

On another note, Look at the black "T" dropcap on page 55. Could the "T" represent the water fall that has run dry that is mentioned in the text on that page? Looks like it is splashing on the rocks below. Could the humming bird be at the base of a waterfall on the left side?

shadoelady · Mar 18, 2005

in response to something in the knothole in th e tree on pg 16, my son & i have decided that it is a snail?. I you get the light and magnifying glass just right you can see that it curls around just like a snail shell

saoirse · Mar 18, 2005

LitDoc said:
WOW!? There is something green in that knothole on page 16!? Try scanning it and in PhotoShop (or the like) lightening it or in some way improve the contrast (i.e., "enhance color" option).

Some people believe it is a box, a letter, a creature, a number - it can be anything you want it to be. However, IMO, it is nothing. It is quite simply green. Green, as in contrast to black, in order to the give the appearance of depth to the knothole. The green in the knothole is the same green that the fairy is pointing to in the colored panel above it. Check the companion book or ATT website.?

kstreasurehunter · Mar 18, 2005

I'm knew here. I just got this book a couple weeks ago as a birthday present. I have gone through most of the posts. I had already figured out most of the poem..

I'm wondering about something that jumped out at me the first time I read the story. When he hears the trees singing to him it says it's almost as if they are trying to tell him something... so I've been trying to come up with anagrams from the song.. so far not much

"moon like, moon like. Dreamer one on ending. I cause your puzzling."

it doesn't seem like this song makes much sense as it is.. I don't know if people have posted about this or not. I didn't see any posts about it..

any thoughts?

i got the fairly easy anagram.. look in me, look in me... and have come up with some interesting things with the rest of the letters but nothing that uses all of the letters..

LitDoc · Mar 18, 2005

One anagram for that song has been posted, something like "under rising moon a golden prize you will see" except not all the words are spelled correctly.