Treasure Clue, can you help?

RonMN · Mar 18, 2005

AN EVEN CODE WITH ONL PIECE ...is it possible that could be an "L" and it's missing another "Y" making it AN EVEN CODE WITH ONLY PIECE NARY?
Just a thought...things that make ya go hmmmmmmm
Ron...

Zharkaya · Mar 18, 2005

So I bought this book thinking I would have something fun to do with my son. The book seems not to be so much a good book for kids as a good book for us adults to feel like a kid again. I am having a great time doing all me research and what have you. I get frustrated often and confused a lot. I have been having a hard time with all the understanding on how to find out what state, city, zip code or maps are. i haven't a found the smallest of details to help locate anything like that. Now I did find the one site that is from that guy who says he found everything and he is out to ruin this book. According to him there is a coin in TN. If this is true then I think I have discovered that beetle coin is in the Smokey mountains. I would love help, support and any feed back. Thanx

Ediel · Mar 18, 2005

Starting with 'YOU', because there's a blank space there, signifying the start and the end marker (in my opinion,) it should look like this:

YOU DID NOT SEE _ _ _ _E OR THE ONE THAT IS MISSING

You'll have to fill in the blanks, of course.

Right?

nolemiester · Mar 18, 2005

I think I have made a breakthrough in the locations of the treasures

. I found a location in Maine, New York, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and two locations in Virginia. If anyone else has found any locations in these states through clues in the book, send me a private message. Thanks,

---Nolan

kstreasurehunter · Mar 18, 2005

those locations...excluding wisconsin are all east coast... doesn't that make you question them a little? since they are supposed to be distributed throughout the U.S... or am I off on my thinking?

CMSCHUT · Mar 18, 2005

HELLO ALL, i had a few ideas today i'd like to run by everyone. i keep thinking when i read the story what the time period that htis story takes place. it keeps bugging for one the tools are all old . second on the page where all the creatures are around the linden stump and ladybug is making a speech the stump looks like a clock and maybe the creatures are positioned at different hous pehaps. my husband suggested a sundial because of the cut on the top of the stump. well......just some thoughts.

CMSCHUT · Mar 18, 2005

HELLO AGAIN, now onto the bugs. i found this the other day folding my pages together to see if i could see anythig, anyway i found the beetle. on page 37 i wanted to see if i could match up the vines around the nomenclature book. now you only have to fold the one side of the nomenclature book to the other side where the brown edges of the book come together and all you see are the vines matching up. you will have to fold it at an angle because the book on the page is at an angle. when they meet there are 3 sections of vines i'm refering to the bottom or 3rd section. at first i thought it was the spider but i believe it to be the beetle. please i am open for all ideas let me know honestly what you see. i have to put my daughter to sleep now but i'll finish the rest after that.

LitDoc · Mar 18, 2005

Celtic Knot Design

Has anyone made progress on the border of pages 20-21? I have not been able to find any two that look alike (coloring). Someone said they reminded her/him of railroad signals, but I could find no information on RR signals through Google. The colors are green, yellow, red(ish), blue, and black (possibly more).

My Brain Hurts · Mar 18, 2005

to patchythepirate,lildoc
in reference to the book mentioned in previous posts(915,940,etc), I believe the book you are refeering to is by KIT WILLIAMS (untitled but known as the bee book). Williams also wrote "_masquerade". MS has mentioned these as influences. Hope the info helps.

Trapape · Mar 18, 2005

I played with the idea that each design that had the same colors on the ends would be that ones that I concentrated on. With the four corners included on my count I got 12. I was hoping the colors led to state flags, but not all matched up. I do think that solving this page is key. We should keep working on it. Any other ideas would be great.

Tracie

Douglefir · Mar 18, 2005

tn seems right. ?I am leaning towards a point on the appalachian trial ?ie p91 the struggle was brief, the climb to the top of clingmans dome, and p92 ?a broken heap of black rocks. ?Its been a while since ive been there but thats what i think and where i would go ?if i lived closer.

LitDoc · Mar 18, 2005

MyBrain, thanks for the info about the other treasure hunting books! It lead me to Amazon.com to a book (now out of print) that contains Kit Williams explanation of how he developed the puzzles for Masquerade. It gave me some ideas, especially as it relates to an earlier posting about a sundial. See the link below. (If it does not come up, let me know, and I will give instructions on how to read the first few pages of this book.)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0894803697/?tag=treasurenet01-20

Little Casino · Mar 18, 2005

As for the colored dots i come up with 96 red, 101 yellow, 78 blue, 106 black, 104 green if i counted right. I found a spider on p22 left side on the tree knot.

LitDoc · Mar 18, 2005

Little Casino, thanks for the foot work (counting actually). Yeah, there is a spider on page 22. He made all those webs. (Or it could just be a hairy knothole.)

CMSCHUT · Mar 18, 2005

HELLO AGAIN, so far on my list i've postef the spider pg. 19 , the hummingbird pg. 25, and beetle pg37. ? on pg 38 the dragonfly. go to the pg no. 12 in the nomenclature book follow across to your right at about the center bottom of the page the tree branches ar in a circle in ?that circle are green leaves representing the shape of the dragonfly. ? ? next creature.. go to pg. 33 where te poem reads at the bottom look under the word each and above the word for . in between that area he's put the bumblebee. this one i found when i first used the 3-d glasses. ?i know this one is hard to see you have to reach into the picture to draw it out. ?next one on the list....pg. 22 go all the way to the very bottom right hand corner of the pg. there is an oblong shape above that shape is a lighter oblong shape and if you look at the top of the lighter green color there are two black lines that i believe to be the antennae of the ant. ?next one i've actually found in two spots the snail ?1st spot pg 78 look to the right of rusfuls back actually if you follow to the right of his belt there is a darker black to the very right of that side of the black area is the snail . he's laying sideways. next place i found the snail was on pg 77 where the darklings are lifting ana from the forest. turn your pg so ana is laying on her tummy. in ana's hair on the right of her head in the highlights is the outline of the snail. i need to stretch my legs i'll post again in 5.

Little Casino · Mar 18, 2005

Has anyone noticed in some of the drop caps there are vines that have nothing to do with anything inside the box.

CMSCHUT · Mar 18, 2005

LITDOC, i was just reading your last post and reminded me of something a friend told me today and had forgot till now. i hope you find this interesting along with everyone else . EDGAR ALLEN POE ?wrte a poem called ?TO HELEN. she said in this poem were a lot of ?word puzzles and such throughout his poem. ?i'm gonna check into it but is there such a poem. if so it could be something because ms dedicates this book to helen. thinking just now the dedication was colored in pink. ooooh can't wait to look that up. let me know what you think.

Little Casino · Mar 18, 2005

I see 2 snails on p66. 1 top right in the design, 2 bottom of design under drop cap.

LitDoc · Mar 18, 2005

MS's wife's name is Helen. This dedication is what one would expect from a nice husband.

nolemiester · Mar 18, 2005

Yeh sure MS' wife name is Helen, but what are the chances that Poe wrote a poem called To Helen which just so happens to be the dedication of A Treasure's Trove (it's in pink letters, there must be some significance), and also wrote a poem call A Dream, which, if your not including the word the in the chapter name, and the word a in the poem name, happens to share the same name as one of the most important (and confusing i might add) chapters in the book. Coincidence? I think not. I will look into this, be sure of it.

---Nolan

P.S. I think im the youngest person on this forum. I'm only 14.