Shiloh Heard It First Hand...

[Livinlifebig]

Livinlifebig I cannot agree with you, keeping the solution to this puzzle in hard copy anywhere regarding such a valued prize as this would have been foolhardy, and Fenn was not a fool. If I had designed the puzzle it would forever be in my head, not written down.

In reference to the ending Starwheel, not the poem or solution.

[shyorphan]

As Goldilocks just pointed out, Shi Guy said;

"My grandfather wanted to keep the chest’s location secret even after it had been found because he feared that, if the location became known, it could be ruined by the number of people who might attempt to go to the site. The location was very special to my grandfather, and the last thing he wanted was to see it destroyed, either innocently or through malicious intent."

So, if anyone is expecting the location to be released, you best cancel any celebration you had planned.

Only way to find it is solve that lovely puzzle...

Now, where do we begin...

Cover for the contrived ending. Just more BS to appease the unknowing masses.

[Round Peg, Square Hole]

Livinlifebig I cannot agree with you, keeping the solution to this puzzle in hard copy anywhere regarding such a valued prize as this would have been foolhardy, and Fenn was not a fool. If I had designed the puzzle it would forever be in my head, not written down.

He prolly had a few versions, seeing as he was a spook, a spy. He wouldn't have entered the room, without scoping at least three exit points.

[Space Hopper]

Cover for the contrived ending. Just more BS to appease the unknowing masses.

If it was never found, you would likely never know where it was, so I cannot see the difference. Maybe you just wanna know if you were close to finding it. Well, do the math, it was a 350,000 to one chance on one shot at spinning the wheel.

[shyorphan]

If it was never found, you would likely never know where it was, so I cannot see the difference. Maybe you just wanna know if you were close to finding it. Well, do the math, it was a 350,000 to one chance on one shot at spinning the wheel.

It was "found" lol. Just not by John "Jack" in 9MH as the cover story goes.

[Alsetenash]

Forrest was cremated , right? Maybe he planned this ending as it is to create speculation of a false ending? Maybe he ended up fullfiling his plan after all? Now we have to actually solve the poem and find him with the treasure? Maybe that's why his hair is in the jar; leaving his DNA sample to prove the bones are his. Hense, he was "Cremated" but he left a DNA sample. Maybe he took one last hike to his spot in "the end" to end it as he planned it all along.

Just take the chest and leave my bones.

Maybe thats why why he didn't "Waffle" that day.

waf·fle¹
NORTH AMERICAN
fail to make up one's mind.
"Joseph had been waffling over where to go"

Only one way to find out.

IMO