Two written ones in the first line...

[Round Peg, Square Hole]

gone alone

I will say its indicative of the location.

Forrest kept shouting from the rooftops that he took well over a decade writing that poem, and me reckons he squeezed many a thing in there.

[Space Hopper]

I think the opposite. He hid the treasure chest, then wrote the poem...

[Gunrunner]

gone alone

I will say its indicative of the location.

Forrest kept shouting from the rooftops that he took well over a decade writing that poem, and me reckons he squeezed many a thing in there.

I think so, too. Try gONE alONE 'n' THREE. Not many places that'll work in the four search states.

[starwheel]

gone alone

I will say its indicative of the location.

Forrest kept shouting from the rooftops that he took well over a decade writing that poem, and me reckons he squeezed many a thing in there.

Round Peg, Square Hole. That leaves you with the word 'GAL'

[whiskynovember]

Round Peg, Square Hole. That leaves you with the word 'GAL'

Anyone can cause you to name any particular card in the deck: Begin with half the deck. > "Pick a group of cards." If the target card is within that group. > Continue in the same fashion until the target card is not in that group. > "What does that leave?" > Alternate back and forth until the target is all that remains.

Most wordplay used by searchers is backfitting.

[Mr hand]

gone alone

I will say its indicative of the location.

Forrest kept shouting from the rooftops that he took well over a decade writing that poem, and me reckons he squeezed many a thing in there.

nice find. i think he squeezed alot in that first line. AsIhavegonealoneinthere AsIhavegonealoneinthere

[MobyDic12345]

gone alone

I will say its indicative of the location.

Forrest kept shouting from the rooftops that he took well over a decade writing that poem, and me reckons he squeezed many a thing in there.

You just noticed that?
It has been used in many solutions.
Actually there are three ones in the first sentence, ' As I have gone alone in there'

[Round Peg, Square Hole]

You just noticed that?
It has been used in many solutions.
Actually there are three ones in the first sentence, ' As I have gone alone in there'

Thanks, I see that one now.

[klein]

Might as well count the "l" in the word alone too. There are two legitimate or obvious occurrences of the word 'one' amongst the seven words of the first sentence. I have always looked at this as a strong marker in the poem.

[FennPoint]

Anyone can cause you to name any particular card in the deck: Begin with half the deck. > "Pick a group of cards." If the target card is within that group. > Continue in the same fashion until the target card is not in that group. > "What does that leave?" > Alternate back and forth until the target is all that remains.

Most wordplay used by searchers is backfitting.

Oddly, the correct solution would be the “most backfitting”, as it would be free of error. Should that cause it to be accepted, or cast out because “it fits so well it must be wrong”? What if we, as a body, are a little too dismissive?

https://www.FennPoint.com

[Rose Livingstone]

Oddly, the correct solution would be the “most backfitting”, as it would be free of error. Should that cause it to be accepted, or cast out because “it fits so well it must be wrong”? What if we, as a body, are a little too dismissive?

www.FennPoint.com

I’ve been looking at this thing a different way recently.
Imagine a large fractal. Now zoom in. You will get a piece in the ‘viewfinder’ that encompasses the entire shape- this shape that is identical to both it’s center point zoom out and it’s center point zoom in. It is missing no curve, no line, no representation has been left out that is required for infinity representation.
That is the solution set reduced. it looks identical the farther ‘down’ you go till it becomes ‘itself’ again. It looks identical the farther ‘up’ you go, till, again, it becomes selfsame. The frames in between these perfect jump snapshots are where most solves lie. (I would say lay, but many searchers have personified their solves into mythic entities.)

[whiskynovember]

Oddly, the correct solution would be the “most backfitting”, as it would be free of error. Should that cause it to be accepted, or cast out because “it fits so well it must be wrong”? What if we, as a body, are a little too dismissive?

The problem with backfitting, at least when it comes to prediction, is that it loses predictiveness and just exquisitely describes the past. (That's how it works with timing models in technical analysis of stocks and such; it's a little different here.) What most of us do with the Chase is conclude an answer or pathway from important portions of the poem, but not the poem in entirety, and afterward work back into the body of text to test it. But most of it is ultimately reverse force-fitting wordplay into a pre-conception to account for a solution instead of using all the words first to produce the solution.

Oh!! did this with unerring confidence: he used at will four or five different selection metrics to get the words he needed to back fit his conclusion. None, and I mean literally none, of his metrics were applied by uniform principle; they were applied/ignored as needed as in the card example.

By posing your question under the assumption "the correct solution" you really have set a high bar for yourself. You'll have to pre-state absolutely definitively all the operative rules in order of priority such that they cannot ever be mis-applied, mis-interperated, or generate any error. IMO the poem just ain't that precise. It's not a blueprint for the human genome. Even though Fenn said he felt like an architect I doubt his poem would pass code. We're dismissive. Yup. But that's because we attribute to Fenn more precision than he issued. Remember his long list of all the things that wouldn't help solve the poem? Fenn just told a story and sold an adventure. We, on the other hand, built and back-tested a super-conducting super-collider. Fenn was having fun at the end of his life. We tried to explain sub-atomic particle physics.

[klein]

It's in the poem for all to see.

[Spoon]

Has anyone considered tthat GONE could be go NE (northeast)?

[Round Peg, Square Hole]

Has anyone considered tthat GONE could be go NE (northeast)?

no