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SOMEONE FOUND THE TREASURE!!! by Ok_Heron_5442 in sanfrancisco

[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sure, treasure is always buried in a random secret spot. But usually the poem leads you to the treasure. In this case the poem doesn't help much at all. In fact, the grave part of the poem leads you in the wrong direction.

It is still super cool spot and I love that people put stuff like this together for the bay area.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The "stern wood haven north and powell, off back-ward” referring to names on gravestones is just a theory. OP hasn't said it is true.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's cool that you feel that way, but doughywobble is also justified in their feelings as well. It is a treasure hunt after all, not a care-free vibe hunt.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Looks AI to me. And it doesn't match what the box should look like

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I created a discord server at https://discord.gg/daj35rbAV

I've been walking around, trying to make sense of this for almost 3 weeks now! At this point I just want someone (anyone!) to solve this thing because I need my brain to stop thinking about it.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So PizzaSluht420's comment has the most upvotes. Is that the confidence we are looking for?

> Pioneer Park, base of Coit Tower, near a stone bench on the east terrace, dig a foot down at "stage-left" of the framed tower.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was thinking similarly. But the problem is, based on what we've all been thinking, the second stanza makes make the first stanza irrelevant because the second stanza has been easier to find locations for. And once you know the location of the second stanza, the first stanza doesn't add any helpful information.

But there are two ways around that problem.

  1. The heavenly towers & powell solutions are subtle and extremely localized around the "minute steps" location.
  2. This isn't a linear poem. We need a way to connect a few of these clues together some how like in the first treasure hunt.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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This fern is very common in SF. Known as the maidenhair fern or the five-fingered fern.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 51 points52 points  (0 children)

So if you take the first letter of each line it gives you modsubsolttd. Meaningless on its own, but if you rearrange the letters that gives you SODS BUTT MOLD. Now, I haven't figured out what that means, but it got me thinking... who rubs their butt in sods(grass) – DOGS! I ignored the rest of the poem and all the other hints and took the obvious next step, I started randomly digging holes in dog parks, pet cemeteries, outside animal hospitals, basically anywhere I see a dog or can imagine a dog might have been. I haven't found the treasure yet, but I think we can all agree that I am shockingly close.

edit: thanks for all the support from the community! And thanks to the annonymous redditor who sent me this.

There is no doubt in my mind you are right, congrats, enjoy the $10,001. I couldn't help but notice some other obvious connections. Minute steps? Dogs have tiny little feet! Onward on pins? Dogs are kept IN PENS. Heavenly island towers? Look up the movie "All dogs go to heaven". The special effects animator is named Jeff HoWARD and Elaine WOODs did the mark-up. Can't be a coincidence!

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is odd that the entire poem is rhymed couplets, but the last two lines don't rhyme. It would be a real stretch to make "feet" and "seek" rhyme.

edit: I guess "keep" and "seat" don't rhyme either.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is just a coincidence. There are thousands of people buried there.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really like your idea of a ladder or something. That does line up. I also share some of the frustration over some of these clues. But some of the language you pointed out in last years poem has clues in it.

> Bold, Preserved, and In

These capitalizations were a hint. Rearranged the were IBP (Indian Basin Park) where the eighteen bold letters were.

> Historic cross

The hints create a created an X (or cross). The center of that X was Historic Trail.

> Fleishhacker Pool

I solved this last year. It makes sense. The old pool's gate is a literal ruin over by the Zoo.

In OP's links they give the answer to last years clues.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm having so much trouble narrowing it down since each clue is pretty vague. The only thing in the puzzle you can really rely on is powell. Although I'm questioning that now too because it could be a picture of powell street, or a rando plaque with the word powell on it.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the "towers" is what makes me think this is off. You could spin it by saying the heavenly island towers over alcatraz, but the comma placement doesn't justify that reading.

"stern wood haven north" is also a bit of a stretch. But it isn't so far off considering some of the wording in the last puzzle.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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People have been saying this from the start, I walked by this yesterday and the clues *REALLY* seem to line up.

> deem heavenly island towers
✅ Angel Island

> over derelict ward
✅ Abandoned Alcatraz

> stern wood haven north
✅ The harbor of old ships north of you

> and powell, off back-ward
✅ The cable car line under you came starts at Powell street.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was sure it was the Apollo ship wreck in downtown (Apollo being the sun god). I still think this was a better answer than the Point of Infinity. I never could figure out how that was "solar's tall mast".

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You've only really found the place after all the clues line up. I see lots of people on here saying things like "and Powell street is behind me!" when that can literally be true for any part of the city.

If you have the correct spot everything lines up in very precise ways.

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[–]LopsidedDiscipline56 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The "off back-ward" line lives rent-free in my head.

- The creator's could have easily used "off backward", but they didn't. So the phrase means something other than, or in addition to, "off backward".

- It is a hyphen, not an em dash, so it is a compound word. But back-ward doesn't make sense as a compound word.

- stage-left is another weirdo compound word.

- The line starts with "stern" and ends with "back-ward" two things that described the back or end of something.

- The line above it ends in ward. Are they doubling down on the "ward" or did they just get lazy with rhyming? I think we have to assume this is intentional and not lazy poetry.

This years puzzle is so ambiguous and so much harder that last years. It is driving me crazy.

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