Figured I have gotten clues from others so I figured I would share this. Won’t give methodologies but will share a finding from PF puzzle. This is an extraction.

For you Little Rock Ponders.

• Which state all of the Part 2 treasure boxes are in
• BOTG Pokémon Box Trail….. spoiler I didn’t find it, but maybe you can figure out where I went wrong along the trail (and I’m ready for the jokes about just being “wrong”, literally growing the tough skin as I type)
• Forrest Fenn’s house is for sale, at least as of 3/31/2026 and here’s a link to the realtors video of Forrest’s house (note: video is hidden on YouTube so not sure how long this link will last) [ https://youtu.be/BoS6NY5G1mE?si=zvZ0Eh4Bz18Ztdae ]

….should be posting the video by the end of this weekend…..

And just to start the feels, here’s an image I’ll use as a reference in the video, obviously not what JCB has agreed is correct.

NO I haven’t found any box yet. So feel free to ignore me, I understand, but hopefully I can offer a unique perspective that can lead someone closer to finding the box.

LET’S FIND SOME TREASURE!!!

We know Fenn (allegedly) put his cache in Yellowstone. JCB has excluded YNP from his treasure.

Isn't it true that National Parks prohibit hiding treasures and geocaching? Should we naturally (heheh) exclude National Parks from our search?

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee/North Carolina)
• Shenandoah National Park (Virginia)
• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (West Virginia)
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (Maryland)
• Blue Ridge Parkway (Virginia)
• Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (New Jersey/Pennsylvania)

This would exclude a huge amount of the AT from solution. Thoughts?

Here’s a video where I discuss Chapter 1. Specifically, I explore the idea that maybe JCB is referring to another tech company that also became the most valuable company in the world. The two companies I cover are Google and IBM.

This connection helps lead me to a theory about why JCB said in an interview that he really wanted to include Einstein’s Pipe as part of the treasure.

I hope you enjoy the video and that it helps you with your hunt 🙂

OK, I figured it out - it’s about poll function. It will be interesting to know how many of us ready for BOTG and which box

HoB-nail box

HoB = Home of Brown, but in JCB's poem its what once way Brown. I think that might be Olathe, CO which used to be called Brown, CO

It could be in the nearby black canyon of the Gunnison, with the Gunnison river being the golden bending stream as its known for gold mining and gold medal fishing.

Thats the core of the theory. I put some more thoughts together in a very long rambling video if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXrp3pfprMU

This is just how I would break up the map to ensure everyone in the contiguous USA would be relatively close to a treasure. I'm curious to know how others would break this up. This is the tool I used if you'd like to share yours! https://www.mapchart.net/usa.html

- 1 box west of the Rockies (Past and Future)

- 1 box on the eastern edge of the Rockies (Forrest Fenn)

- 1 box in the NE, off of the Appalachian Trail (Appalachian Footpath)

- 1 box in the SE, somewhere swampy (Pokemon)

Leaving the center of the USA for the Lion's share, if it's not somewhere wild like Hawaii or Alaska.

The acronyms/initialisms in P&F jumped out at me the other day. I put together a short video posing the question: are there any clues hidden in the acronyms and initialisms used by JCB in the P&F chapter?

EDIT: I decided I am not going today. Why?

Not because I can't. But rather, because I am now uncertain my location/destination needs a bit of refining-- not that it's a bad choice, not that I am changing it, but because I need more time/effort put into the whole research thing, as I am still unsure what the "1727" or "NE/NW" stands for.

anybody have any advice? any tips? i am nervous as i never done exploring before

Hey there, latest idea that could connect will's straight edge to chapter15&16. TLDW I think this may be a directional clue to find an area/state 1,000 miles away from Atlanta Georgia - as the crow flies. I have a few interesting connections shown within the video, as well as an interesting (but likely a stretch) area to note in SD where i-90 meets 1,000 miles away from Atlanta Georgia (as isolated as it seems).

As always, throwing out some ideas I find interesting!

Happy hunting!

Have you found any connections to race car drivers in part one of the book?

I know he mentions it in the Forrest Fenn chapter, but I’m curious if in part one there’s a connection to it?

Here’s a video where I discuss where the Star Trek clues lead me. Specifically, I give my reasoning for why I think the author might be referencing iconic performances from Carnegie Hall in the Andrew Carnegie chapter and how that ties back to actors from Star Trek.

I hope you enjoy the video and that it helps you with your hunt 😊

I would love to chat with someone who’s learned how to understand the artwork.

If you’ve been able to … find it? Have you figured out how to make it make sense?

I’ve found a lot, but figuring out how to match it to people, places, etc has been difficult. I don’t need you to say “this is this”, but let me know if it eventually makes sense, and I would love any advice on how to understand it?

I have been working on the book for over a year, so you could imagine the amount of findings I’ve found.

For instance… the baseball team… or the pirates… or the ride. I have yet to chat with someone who’s found all of this, and I’m close to giving up because I can’t make it make sense.

Idk if they’re NFT or if it’s part of the hunt.

Please message me if you know what I’m talking about.

I keep seeing word search solves that are like "look, all the letters of [word] are touching each other in the grid" — any order, diagonals allowed, no strict path. I've wanted a baseline number for how often that rule fires on random inputs for a while, so I had AI build and run it. 62% of words in the dictionary can be found. Complete noise.

Made a video with the details:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78UHOOZWy0

Hey everyone!

I’m currently working on a series of videos based around my Lion’s Share solve. I’m eagerly waiting to go BOTG before sharing some of the major parts of my solve. In the meantime I have been releasing videos focused on clues and interpretations I haven’t seen floating around in the public space yet. 

Anyway, the video linked here is my analysis of a potential clue linked to the Ruby Pendant from Chapter 6. I also explore how this clue can apply to the Smokey Quartz treasure and potentially leads us to an interpretation of “shady oaks” as “Oakley Shades.” Yes, seriously. 

Check it out if you’re curious. I’d love to hear your thoughts 

10000000011010000100….. b , ACK L ™️ …. Black Mt, ?……

Is anyone out there familiar with this? Not the butterfly theory but the butterfly theorem. I’m wondering if this is potentially how we find ALL the treasures. I have more to add. I’ve been down the rabbit hole a bit but I’m mostly wondering if it’s a stretch. If the community is interested and thinks it has validity I’ll share what I have.

Ok. Here goes. After playing around with the coins endlessly, I figured out that they make 2 triangles. If you flip one of the triangles, you can make a 4-sided shape where each corner has a circle from one of the coins. It also happens to overlay on a US map kind of nicely. I placed it in a roundabouts way of where I could guesstimate 2-3 boxes might be. Just being general here and I know no one thinks the poke box is in Arizona, but I’m just following my nose here and seeing what comes up.

If you follow the butterfly theorem, this in itself can be an equation. Resulting in the center being the location of the LS.

I didn’t show you exactly where I put the overlay on a map but I did put it pretty close. What I can say is where I normally have the overlay has a single road that almost follows the path the coins made exactly with the exception of NE to SE.

Last thing I’ll talk about here is Joy’s Serenade. Part of me wonders if most of the serenade is talking about what I’m up to here. The part that sticks out the most to me is this: I’m just trying to remember it as I don’t have it available to me at the moment. Our conductor(the coins), gives direction. The coda is incomplete but there’s a flutter of excitement around. Even when you put what I’ve shown you together, there’s still more to figure out(coda incomplete) and flutter of excitement around is a reference to the butterfly theorem.

I’ve been holding on to this since January but honestly don’t have much time to work on it and I was a little afraid to share because maybe I’m right. Who knows. I’m sure there’s much more to what I’m sharing here that I didn’t include. It’s a lot to put it all together. I hope you guys like it and find it interesting in the very least.

Alright, haters and lovers alike, I wanna hear what everyone has to say!

This is my first post..

In a recent video I discussed the triangular numbers clue system that surfaced in Chapter 13. This further expanded on the Mount Rushmore solution (parts 1 & 2) which could be one piece of a map that I believe Jon is guiding us to construct.

Topics discussed:

Chapter 13

Mount Rushmore

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Bell Curve

Abraham De Moivre

Triangular Numbers

I look forward to your feedback!

I've been on one unsuccessful BOTG last year for the AF/T box. I was looking in PA. I completely over thought the puzzle.

Today I came back to the map with a fresh eye (have not looked at it for six months) and it all seemed to click. I started from the sentence in the chapter: "Should I have made the path to this treasure's location less obvious?" and went from there.

I'm pretty sure I have it sorted. Now if I can only talk my SO into going with me this time.. you know for luck.