Life is a Game of Poker

[RahRah]

"I don't know that anybody has told me the..the clues...in the right order" ff

"If you don't have that one nailed down you might as well stay home and play Canasta."

Nail down - put into order, arrange

[ROLL TIDE]

nailed down
dwell upon
sewed up
https://www.classicthesaurus.com/nailed_down

plug
#970

in the right order
https://www.classicthesaurus.com/in_the_right_order

[RahRah]

I like 'in the right order' - interchangable

[ROLL TIDE]

I like 'in the right order' - interchangable

Yes, and 'layered'.
And, how about 'cycling' ?
start-stop, start-stop, start-stop … begin-halt.

[Old Pilot]

The directions to the "treasure" (please note that I didn't say TC this time) are in the poem. Not in the blogs.
Wasn't "Stan Lee" part of Livingstone's name, or am I presuming too much? Do you see a small hint in this message?

[RahRah]

The directions to the "treasure" (please note that I didn't say TC this time) are in the poem. Not in the blogs.
Wasn't "Stan Lee" part of Livingstone's name, or am I presuming too much? Do you see a small hint in this message?

[Captain Toolface]

"I don't know that anybody has told me the..the clues...in the right order" ff

"If you don't have that one nailed down you might as well stay home and play Canasta."

Nail down - put into order, arrange

Maybe the clues weren’t sent to him in the right order

[antigroove]

The directions to the "treasure" (please note that I didn't say TC this time) are in the poem. Not in the blogs.
Wasn't "Stan Lee" part of Livingstone's name, or am I presuming too much? Do you see a small hint in this message?

Stan Lee will be sorely missed.

"Ashes with ashes, dust with dust confound,
May Fate's swift spindle soon that day bring round!"
~Ovid, Consolation to Livia

[Mrox]

The directions to the "treasure" (please note that I didn't say TC this time) are in the poem. Not in the blogs.
Wasn't "Stan Lee" part of Livingstone's name, or am I presuming too much? Do you see a small hint in this message?

Wait... are you saying that Stan Lee had something to do with this treasure?

[RahRah]

I'm confused. Are you both suggesting the treasure is not in the chest? Please don't play coy.

Well, and this is just IMO, there is the chest (which is a treasure) and there is the treasure....the poem notes both treasures.

The thing to figure out is what, in Fenn's mind, is a treasure?

[RahRah]

If there's a second treasure, is it open to determination like the clues? Why would it be the treasure more tha the chest everyone is chasing after?

It's likely something Fenn considers a treasure, not something we'd look to take home; it could be a view he treasures, a fishing hole he's fond of, or a rock formation he finds funny when he looks at it - anything really that he holds dear....or it could be something else, but as treasure, something you cherish would work as the second "treasure" the poem speaks of.

[RahRah]

Which one are you looking for?

The chest, of course.

[jdiggins]

In the right order
or
in the write order?

[cj1066]

In the right order
or
in the write order?

Or in the rite (of passage) order?

[jdiggins]

Or in the rite (of passage) order?

Very nice!