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Clues for where the treasures were buried are provided in a puzzle book named The Secret produced by Byron Preiss and first published by Bantam in 1982. [1] The book was authored by Sean Kelly and Ted Mann and illustrated by John Jude Palencar, John Pierard, and Overton Loyd; JoEllen Trilling, Ben Asen, and Alex Jay also contributed to the book. [2]
A pamphlet published in 1885, entitled The Beale Papers, is the source of this story.The treasure was said to have been obtained by an American named Thomas J. Beale in the early 1800s, from a mine to the north of Nuevo México (New Mexico), at that time in the Spanish province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (an area that today would most likely be part of Colorado).
The Kanda Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, the location of the second clue. After the text on the first clue was decoded, it pointed to the second clue being located in Japan as the text mentioned a "shrine" and "yen", the latter of which is the country's official currency. The text also mentioned a "sword" and "crescent" marking the clue.
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After releasing the book, Max Valentin gave some general clues about the game. [33] These clues were often short riddles, or plays on words. Some of the clues were refutations; [34] readers were looking for the owl in erroneous places such as Mont Saint-Michel and at Notre-Dame de Paris, and Valentin felt the need to publicly dismiss these ...
An armchair treasure hunt is an activity that requires solving puzzles or riddles in some easily portable and widely reproduced format (often an illustrated book [15]), and then using clues hidden either in the story or in the graphics of the book to find a real treasure somewhere in the physical world. This type of treasure hunt may take ...
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