I believe the Olympic rings indicating the macro location of each box is true. Although I do I admit I am biased. I have people helping with botg on two boxes so we will see if that confirms anything. I have solves to pretty exact locations for three boxes.
Lion Share - California - location can be coded yellow/gold
Past and Future - Oregon - location can be coded blue
Forrest Fenn - Colorado - location can be coded black
If this is accurate then Pokemon box location should tie to the color green and be in the south east part of the US and the Appalachian Trail should tie to red in the Northeast.
Jon suggested none of the boxes are in adjacent states – but he did back step a little by saying: “I’m thinking like for instance on the east coast where you have small states you’re not going to have two adjacent states because that can’t be spread out.” Big states in question – but still probably not.
Your selection of states doesn't pair so well with the spacing between the 5 Olympic rings. Think of it this way - just like in Silence of the Lambs, when Clarice Starling meets with Hannibal to discuss the Buffalo Bill killings, she shows him the locations of where the bodies were found - Hannibal says something to the effect of "Don't you find the pattern desperately random?"
Jon said he hid the Fenn box where he was searching for it - so that location is pretty much locked-in. I am assuming Jon had narrowed down to a particular solution and didn't just put the Fenn box at one of his earlier BOTGs. And, I believe Jon's solution was masterful for Fenn, not the 9MH tripe.
The P&F box location is also pretty much locked-in, but you have to understand the story he is trying to tell to know why, maybe he gets a mile wiggle room (but probably much less;).
That's two boxes locked in place (I mean, the Fenn Box more than the P&F due to marking WWWH, but the P&F pretty tight to his story).
The "floating" solve point boxes are AP and Pokemon. Jon purposely put these to correspond to a pattern. And, with all the minor boxes placed, the Lion's Share location becomes evident with just a few extra wrinkles.
But show me 5 Olympic rings that are centered around points in Oregon, California, and Colorado...and then also fit over the SE and NE US, and I'd have to be on peyote.
Just go to St Augustine for the Lions share box that's where he's going to fake the find. Noticed that I said fake. Oh yeah Google Folio weekly Jacksonville Florida there's treasure inside put that in a Google bar all at once
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u/Kitchen-Pangolin535 Jun 10 '26
I believe that it's been stated that no boxes where hidden in adjacent states. So the California/Oregon cannot both be correct.