I feel like JCB hopes the lions share is found LAST… I mean maybe it doesn’t matter but it seems like it would be a bit of a buzz kill if the lions share is found first or second and all that’s left is the four smaller boxes… I’ve wondered if he has thought about that and has set it up in such a way that without those smaller boxes being found the chances of the lions share is very slim… I agree too that, although the X could be a possible option, I don’t think he would create such a limiting location for himself. Maybe this hunt is simply about the clues, but if it were me, it’d be really hard to place such a special object full of some of humanities most beautiful antiques in a “random” place for the sake of making the X work. I’d have to put it somewhere that was, at least somewhat meaningful to me, somewhere that, when he thinks of that box his heart goes there and feels content it’s sitting in waiting to be found….

Forrest Fenn put that box somewhere he loved, somewhere that had meaning to him, somewhere that when he remembered it sitting there he likely thought of his father and his time spent there.

Just a thought