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Those are interesting ideas, but those kinds of techniques would violate the spirit of the deal. By creating such a large search area, he tacitly agrees to not
by erikpukinskis 10y ago
Those are interesting ideas, but those kinds of techniques would violate the spirit of the deal. By creating such a large search area, he tacitly agrees to not hide the box itself too well.
- logfromblammo 10y ago"The deal", as I see it, is to find the treasure by solving the riddles and clues, not by stumbling across it by chance. If the clues were sufficient to pinpoint the location with 1m precision, it would be acceptable to hide something so well that you would have to be within 1m to notice it. A buried treasure would require this magnitude of precision. If the clues give 10m precision, I'd expect that the target should blend in a bit, but still be detectable from 3m away. A buried or submerged treasure marked with an obvious blaze could get away with this magnitude. At 100m precision, you actually need to be sort of obvious. At 1km precision, it should be painted hunters orange and shoot fireballs into the air periodically. At 10km precision... you probably should have taken some of that treasure and hired Will Shortz or some other professional puzzlemaster as a consultant.