A little late, but I thought about a bit as well, and my son and I talked about the "old man's treasure" and he had his own ideas in Yellowstone so we looked around for clues. It was fun, he was genuinely disappointed when the treasure was found. I told him today that the "old man" died.TomPierce wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:51 pmI'm not embarassed to say I too was intrigued, had an idea where to look, and took my wife and kids out to explore the site.pfiore1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:44 pm I will also admit, somewhat embarrassingly, that I tried to decipher the clues in the "poem" and thought I had some promising ideas. If it really is true, then he should at the least provide a broad description of the location where it was even if he doesn't provide the exact coordinates.
.... No treasure found, but it was one of the best days out, ever. My kids still talk about it.
I do believe it was 'real' because he had the means, it ended up being a stressful endeavour, and alternative explanations would be more bizarre to me.
I would like to know 'where' because I'd like to know if the puzzle was sufficiently (IMHO) 'elegant.' Could I/we have solved it uniquely with enough proper thinking? Or was it a 'cheap' puzzle/riddle that fit many possibilities, in which it was helpful to consider the poem but really you had to start by wandering in the correct area? It's one thing to write a description of something, it's another to consider all alternatives to ensure that the description is unique. It's actually pretty interesting, in a "meta" sort of way, to observe people's differing interpretations and certainty.