Treasure Clue, can you help?

[pancho_semplice]

Bonnie,

GREAT work! But do not be discouraged. Remember 'Start cipher key in tools'! There is undoubtedly another clue to be found in this puzzle. There is likely something to be found in the way the letters are turned in different directions.

Sorry I have been AWOL lately, I've been extremely busy at work, and will not likely have a lot of time to post for the next couple of weeks. Weekends are touch and go with me because I am not always near a computer. However, I would like to report that I am currently working on what will most certainly be a startling discovery!!

I had to take a trip to the store to pick up some supplies on this little hunt, and knew when I got back in my car that I was most certainly on the right track! How? Well, by what can only be considered divine intervention, I got into my car, looked down and found a ladybug stuck to my jeans! He/She rode with me all the way back to the office. I left it in my car for the time being, but left the windows and sunroof open in the event it found its way out of my car! Anyway, I'll post when I can during the next week or so. Hope you all have a GREAT weekend!!

 

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[Gaines]

I am honored that you all thought that I had unraveled this puzzle, but I did not. It is all over the forums, so I just posted it on our site as it had not been done. I believe some late nighters at Tweleve cracked it first. Yet, I agree with Pancho that there is more to this than we first see. Stadther had mentioned several times in public that he did not care for the red herrings in the other book he worked on (can't remember the name - the one where the gold rabbit was the prize) and that he did not intend to use them in his book. This has been reported by several who attended his book signings, so was not a real "clue" to many. I think that this "puzzle" is meant to lead us to think in different ways in order to obtain more clues. Do read all of the ATT posts from today in order to glean what others are thinking.

 

[Gaines]

Pancho,
Well, we all want to be invited over to see the Ladybug jewel when you bring her home!

 

[Gaines]

Sorry to post again, but I forgot to mention that this solution is not an anagram. I am, however, working on anagrams from the solution, but not much promising yet. Just copy the page and circle the letters until they are all used up spelling out the solution. I am anagraming by colors next.

 

[hoppperr]

The letters in the first "box", top left, anagram to

I HID A NOTE

Not having much luck with the rest so far.

 

[TSpoon]

Don't mean to cause dissention in the ranks, but I can't agree with a couple of previous notes. Firstly, it most definitely is an anagram. All 53 letters and the 1 are used in the solution. But I also believe that it is a Rubik's Cube, and "solving" the Rubik's Cube probably makes the arrangement of the letters obvious. It is clear from the letters in the middle squares which colors go on the sides of the cube: Red, Blue, Green and Orange have their middle letters all facing upwards or downwards, so those colors abut one another going around the cube in one direction (e.g. Blue on top, Red on front face, Orange on back face, Green on bottom - or any other combination). The middle letters for Yellow and White face sideways, so they would be on the sides of the Cube (facing upwards when arranged on the cube). I'm pretty sure that's the way it should work.

I do agree with the other comment, however - there are probably other messages embedded in this puzzle.

 

[patchythepirate]

If you go with the previous "I hid a note" then the only solutions for the 2nd box within the box are : 1 corn seen, screen no 1, and scene ron 1 ....none of which makes sense yet.

Patchy

 

[jewels1301]

The Yellow Letters spell "OPEN SIGHT" and the Green contains "HINT".

Jewels

 

[hoppperr]

Someone on another sight suggested including the letters of the colors to anagram:

yellow
IONTSPHEG

You can get yellowstone out of this one (I know a lot of people think one is near Yellowstone Park), but then you're left with PHIG

The person who posted this got "arrange rose tree" out of orange with the orange letters

I do think this clue is multi-layered and somehow goes along with the featured puzzle

 

[zuse]

THERE ARE NO INTENTIONAL RED HERRINGS? POSTED IN MARCH? NOT APRIL 1

 

[CMSCHUT]

Pancho, lucky you . glad you stopped in for a short visit. Ladybugs are lucky unless you harm them then you have bad luck, so you did good. I found out the hard way

Artsuz i came up with RARE TREES also from the orange letters, NOT APRIL 1 from blue, and like jewels the word hint in green and in the white letters HIDDEN. so i think like most there is more than one hint here .

 

[My Brain Hurts]

ive brought up anagrams before on this forum with no reply ...but some one else must see "RARE TREES" in the brown/orange squares

 

[My Brain Hurts]

sorry i was a few behind when i posted

 

[zuse]

Now that we know what today's clue says, how do we use this info in the hunt? Do the colored blocks somehow correspond with the colors in the border on pages 20 & 21? Zuse

 

[CMSCHUT]

This i printed from another forum way back. it's a copy someone done of all the dark lines.

 

[zuse]

Another thing - I checked the captions at the bottom of the full-page pictures. ?The captions are taken from the story. ?There are a few capitialization and punctuation differences that I'm ignoring for now, but I did find two differences in wording. ?

Page 31 - "had" is added to the caption
Page 77 - "lifted her" is left out of the caption

Editing mistakes? ?You be the judge.....

Zuse

 

[CMSCHUT]

Zuse i think ms was just trying to clarify that he wasn't ?intending to lead us astray with all he put in the book . I also belive there could be another clue though like the last one and maybe then we'll have something for the hunt, carol

 

[CMSCHUT]

Zuse i think the caption one is maybe where the clue is, because it is different. maybe a cipher and the left out word is the key. or maybe an anagram. what do you think? i think ms did everything with a purpose.

 

[zuse]

CMSCHUT - HAD LIFTED HER anagrams to FIDDLE HEARTH. Doesn't do anything for me. I'll keep trying. I agree that everything means something, if we could figure out what that "something" is! ZUSE

 

[CMSCHUT]

Zuse , maybe it's the whole caption under the picture. i agree with you on "the something ". carol