5/2/05 | 2:05 pm | Solution: No Sunken Treasure
Hey, sorry for making everyone look through so many rivers! Many of you actually did that. Yeah I KNEW it would be red herringitis, but otherwise it would’ve been too easy. Brian G notes:
About 20-30 minutes, off and on. Once I realized there was a Lake St. Louis, I stopped looking in the river…
After getting a lot of similar mail, I decided to drop the water clue. That set many straight who were dredging the river. Jason C:
got it right away after the first clue…
But, I didn’t check the connection regarding different “kings”. I should’ve paid more attention in history classes! Robert M started with a different french king:
Took me a little while, but not too long. I was thinking Lake Charles, LA for awhile though.
… as did Rian B:
Had me going at Lake Charles, Louisiana. It had a legend about some pirate burying treasure there. Finally switched to a different french king and found it by st louis.
Oops. To add to the ambiguity, there is also the Missouri (Misery) River, which some like Scott L searched through:
This one wasn’t too hard, though I spent too much time looking up and down the MIssouri River. Anywho, I had a couple of classes interrupting my solving time, I’d say I spent about fifty minutes on this one.
Others had no problems after the clue drop. From Justin:
This took me about thirty seconds. My first instinct was that “Misery” probably referred to Missouri and that the Holy French King probably referred to St. Louis, and since your second clue said it wasn’t a river, I figured it was a lake. So I typed in “Lake St. Louis, MO” into Google Maps, and then found it pretty quickly.
By the way, did anyone else see Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy yet? I’m a big fan of the books but, I must admit that during the “satellite view” shots of earth and other planets, all I could think about was “Hey, that would make a good Scavengeroogle clue.” I think I’ve been spending too much time on this site!
Got some work to finish up the rest of today, so I’m going to return tomorrow morning with another clue. Around 9 a.m. PDT., same bat channel…
May 3rd, 2005 at 2:40 am
I didn’t figure this one out. And here’s why. I thought you were getting all cryptic on me. King - Misery. I thought you meant stephen king. So, here I am looking in Maine. Totally off track. I think I have been thinking way too hard about these hunts….lol
May 3rd, 2005 at 10:05 am
Kristopher - oops! The funny thing is that I have a lot of the Steven King books, but I didn’t think of him for that clue. So it was one more unplanned red herring I guess…