Treasure Clue, can you help?

[bballbeauty]

To bring up old topics that are bugging me....

Anyone gain insight into the extra e's in every single tweleve? Leave off the tw and it starts to spell eleven...

Any thoughts?

 

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[da_midg]

no clue about that, but I found out that Spriggans which are another name for the Pickensrooters are actually fairies from English folktales that are said to have haunted empty castles and such. also, the third name for Pickensrooters is Boggles which is kind of similar to the Boggarts also from English folktales and they're explained the same as Pickensrooters. They move around furniture and stuff, but they're suppose to be mostly found in countrysides.

 

[tommyerwin]

Does anyone have a complete listing of where the animals and their mates are hidden throught the book?
i cant seem to find any catipillers

-Tommy

 

[da_midg]

has anyone tried to see if the fancy letters at the begining of each chapter spell anything?
Tommy--- are you trying to find the treasure?

 

[tommyerwin]

I am but I thought it would be fun to find the animals in the book but im not having the best luck.

-Tommy

 

[amadave]

Hopefully this is easy and basic enough that someone won't mind helping a nobby newby!

For anyone who has the companion book to a Treasure's Trove...with reference to Puzzle # 21. Even knowing the plain text, I can't see how the key is derived. I see no English phrase that could have been used as a key, no shifts, no Caesar, no transposition patterns, nothing. Can anyone figure the methology used to encyrpt that quote?

Thanks very much!

 

[da_midg]

I don't have the companion book, but if you could scan the page I could try and help you.

 

[amadave]

OK, well

GKKA'O LDEO ORKI JG. TDQ RDW VLLZ ILCCMZS IRL IEJIR! IELLO QKJCW IDCA!

works out to

POOK'S EARS SHOT UP. ZAK HAD BEEN TELLING THE TRUTH! TREES COULD TALK!

but I can't see any sort of key or cipher pattern. And I'm conscious it's probably terribly simple and proof that I ought not even try working on the book itself.

Thanks

 

[da_midg]

I've been working on it for the past hour and I can't come up with anything. I tried just about every cipher I could find, but none worked. sorry

 

[sumpter]

Something my husband and I recently noticed. In the Table of Contents, all the chapters are written in blue. Only the "C" in "Chapter Thirteen" is written in BLACK. It's the only letter that's a different color. Any thoughts on this?

 

[da_midg]

At the begining of the book it shows the snail walking when you flip the pages. I noticed that at the end it begins looking up before disappearing. don't know if it means anything though.

 

[burgerboy905]

any help on pg 77. something about thirteen, and one more thing, "a code of numbers, five to a side" thats either 10 or 25....3 different places in the book, a fairy is pointing to a letter in a box with 25 smaller boxes in it....5 up and 5 accross...5 to a side...any thoughts...

 

[burgerboy905]

and another thing, on pg63, the puzzle has 2 solutions, both have been posted, has anyone else found solutions other than the poem?

 

[burgerboy905]

could someone let me know what the puzzle says when put together....i dont want to cut and paste that many peices....PLEASE

 

[sumpter]

BurgerBoy---The puzzle says "A Code of Numbers Five to a side"

 

[Puzzles]

In response to the last message-
Why did you correct burger boy's "a code of numbers, five to a side" with "A Code of Numbers Five to a side"

 

[kathvann]

Hi,
Yes, I deciphered the morse code just like you did. I got Near the overlook. Then there is one last part that has too many dots and lines to be morse. I tried getting more morse code up the fallen tree and then tried to track it back to the part of the pattern that we couldn't work out, but I did not have any luck. Perhaps the extra symbols are there to mess you up?

Look on the two pages that has the chain-link pattern in the border (there are spiders on the left and right hand side of the two pages). In the center where the two pages join, there appear to be arrows. The arrows seem to point to a color. follow the color along (eg yellow) and use that as the code. Each chain link is a separate letter I think. But, there does not seem to be a symbol that breaks the words up like the red square did in the other pattern.

There could also be dots and slashes (morse) on the mushrooms and the trees. Also, the caterppillar's body looks like it could have morse code on it. It seems really intricate and confusing though and the pattern that you found was pretty clear?? Let me know what you think.

Have you got the clue companion strategy guide to A Treasure's Trove? I have it and it seems to be really helpful. There is another thing. On the page with the wooden blocks on it. there are strange letters YKUP I think and another combination. If you look under ciphers in the book, the first cipher that they talk about is pairing letters in the alphabet with other letters in the alphabet in order to encode words. I have tried pairing the YKUP with all of the letters in the alphabet and do not come up with an obvious message. However, I am about to try to get anagrams of what I have found to see if anything makes sense. I'll let you know if I find anything.

Kathy

 

[HandGems]

My only problem with ACCEPTING any kind of MORSE CODE messages is that MIKE STADTHER stated NO SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE NEEDED. It says if you can read then you can solve the puzzles. I think morse code is a specialized knowledge and I personally am in DENIAL that he would do that.

 

[kathvann]

Yes, Stadther does say that you don't need special knowldge to figure out the clues, but he also says that anyone who can read can figure out the clues and that the answers are right in front of you. Stadther's strategy guide shows you how to decipher morse code in an easy way and even children could read his strategy guide and figure out the morse if they were persistent enouhg, you only have to be able to read and match it to the book, you do not have to learn morse code to figure it out.

Another piece of evidence that supports my claim that there is morse in the book is that I have found a clue in it. I come up with Near the overlook from the morse code in the border of one of the pages. I do not think that it is a coincidence. The page is the one with the fairys spelling out the message with the word disturbed in it. The code is found in the border of that page that has light green, dark green and red black. Look it up and see if you get the same thing.
Kathy

 

[da_midg]

On page 31 the morse code that you're all talking about does say Near The Overlook, but if you use the red squares which are suppose to be dots, in place of the green squares you can decipher it to say Find The Trees Hole