The Great Global Treasure Hunt

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#21 Post by **kathlyn** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:38 pm

I don't do twitting or faceing either

#22 Post by **clvrlad** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:55 pm

Laura wrote: Even with the link posted yesterday, I never found this puzzle that seems to have led you to a hotel in New York.

click the link on the right there is a picture under a heading something like "enter our quiz"

#23 Post by **MBH** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:09 pm

kathlyn wrote:I don't do twitting or faceing either

Me Three - LOL

Has anyone else heard the rumour that FaceBook and Twitter are combining with YouTube and they're merging into one site?

It's going to be called YouTwitFace

#24 Post by **Redfraggle** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:11 pm

It was TOO easy - the Eiffel Tower (gift from France) and the text down the side, the picture of the liberty bell, the torch in the room. The sea scorpion is the sea symbol of New York and the torn curtains look like the New York skyline. The numbers on the desk are the latitude and longitude and the broken chain at the bottom all lead to the Statue of liberty.

The real thing will be much more obscure - this is to entice us all and make us think we're in with a great chance. But PBers are the best in the world (me excluded)

- so if anyone can do it - we're in with a good chance!

#25 Post by **MBH** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:32 pm

Excellent explaination Red (thanks for that), but there is a lot of other things in the picture that must NOT relate to it. For general information I would NEVER have got the curtain - very clever.

The numbers on the desk would probably have got me straight there, and the tower and torch would have leapt out. I didn't know about the scorpion and I may or may not have spotted the picture of the bell

#26 Post by **Laura** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:42 pm

Whereas, I got the bell and the torch, and with the text, that was enough. I didn't even realise there was a curtain!

Had to go back and look for that. I'm thinking a combined effort would definitely be the way to go!!!!

#27 Post by **maisie ladybird** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:49 pm

Thanks for the explanation - I didn't realise the significance of the scorpion or the bell either.

I've found the official website too:-

http://www.jointhetreasurehunt.com/en

#28 Post by **clvrlad** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:20 pm

don't forget the other clues
the broken chain for example

there are lots there if you really look

and the writing on the desk took me to france not newyork (an alternate liberty)

the Bartholdi Museum

#29 Post by **Scurra** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:56 pm

Well that's what confused me - there were so many pictures that were representing the same thing that I wondered if it was all a complex red herring.

#30 Post by **clvrlad** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:23 am

me too im wondering if its the original statue were after( the one the big one was copied from)
maybe liberty in general
possibly the French name for the statue
i did like the diagram again with long and lat on the side though

#31 Post by **MBH** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:58 am

clvrlad wrote:maybe liberty in general

That was my thought especially when I spotted it could be a place, a thing, or a CONCEPT. Broken chain = freedom = liberty. I'm sure Buddah and Anubis could be pulled into a similar idea. [Doing this from memory - I've not got the picture in front of me]

#32 Post by **SparkOut** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:31 am

Lat/Long point to Colmar in France,

wikipedia wrote:Colmar is the home town of the painter and engraver Martin Schongauer and the sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty.

#33 Post by **Redfraggle** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:31 pm

Thank you for that Sparkout.

So are we all going to share ideas?

#34 Post by **kathlyn** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:06 am

No one seems to have mentioned all the map references which all led to places called Liberty or Freedom. Even with all the Liberty hints in the picture and the written clues the answer is still a little ambiguous though I'd been going with Statue of Liberty in New York since Sunday.

#35 Post by **strep98** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:21 pm

You have started something now I have ended up with both books, treasure hunt and puzzle challenge. When I'm bankrupt I will be begging on the forum

#36 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:29 pm

MBH wrote:Broken chain = freedom = liberty.

and on the actual statue of liberty...

#37 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:14 pm

strep98 wrote:You have started something now I have ended up with both books, treasure hunt and puzzle challenge. When I'm bankrupt I will be begging on the forum

Don't worry Strep. I'll pay handsomely for clues to puzzles.

I'm not getting involved with this one - I'm hopeless at picture puzzles and knowing my luck it would all be too small for me to read anyway. But if you all end up rich and famous, please remember me...

#38 Post by **tricia** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:11 am

strep98 wrote:You have started something now I have ended up with both books, treasure hunt and puzzle challenge. When I'm bankrupt I will be begging on the forum

Ive just bought The Great Global treasure Hunt(delivery 5/9/2011) but what is the puzzle challenge book apart from this magazine

Tricia

#39 Post by **gill216** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:22 am

But if you all end up rich and famous, please remember me...

Is that because you'll have jumped off a bridge because you'd regret not having joined in?

#40 Post by **kathlyn** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:37 am

Bunnylump wrote:
strep98 wrote:You have started something now I have ended up with both books, treasure hunt and puzzle challenge. When I'm bankrupt I will be begging on the forum
Don't worry Strep. I'll pay handsomely for clues to puzzles. I'm not getting involved with this one - I'm hopeless at picture puzzles and knowing my luck it would all be too small for me to read anyway. But if you all end up rich and famous, please remember me...

They do a larger 'coffee table' edition. Amazon has it for £14.99 instead of £20.

My Treasure Hunt book has arrived

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