France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by femtozer » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 9:16 AM UTC

France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved
goldenowlhunt.com

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by lode » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 11:29 AM UTC

Discussed here in 2023 at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37647467

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by wickedsight » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 12:18 PM UTC

Seems to be hugged to death. Web archive has a copy for those interested:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241003112400/https://goldenowl...

Edit: Unfortunately, only the home page is archived, not the article it links to.

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by morsch » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 12:21 PM UTC

Here's a BBC article, found via the Wikipedia page. Very little additional detail though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvglkr4p578o

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Trail_of_the_Golden_O...

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by frereubu » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 12:23 PM UTC

Reminds me very much of the Masquerade book in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by haunter » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 12:46 PM UTC

The actual post https://goldenowlhunt.com/the-golden-owl-is-won-after-31-yea...

https://i.imgur.com/ecJeMB7.png

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by Rygian » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 12:53 PM UTC

frereubu wrote: post #5

Reminds me very much of the Masquerade book in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)

I initially confused the title with Maskerade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskerade

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by beeb » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 12:56 PM UTC

wickedsight wrote: post #3

Seems to be hugged to death. Web archive has a copy for those interested: https://web.archive.org/web/20241003112400/https://goldenowl... Edit: Unfortunately, only the home page is archived, not the article it links to.

Here's a copy http://archive.today/qqWbx

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by iLoveOncall » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 12:57 PM UTC

Note that the ACTUAL organizer of the treasure hunt is not Michel Becker, but Régis Hauser (aka Max Valentin) who died more than 10 years ago.

Michel Becker only helped illustrate the book that is the support for the hunt and has taken over it when he passed.

As far as I know this was quite controversial because he had not knowledge about the riddles or how to solve them, and was only able to take over because there was a notarized enveloped left behind by the original creator which explained everything.

Re: France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

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Post by dudul » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 1:00 PM UTC

Damn! Just when I was getting back into it with my 9yo son :(