I have a friend who was actually deep into it in the nineties with his parents. They went digging one or two times during the summer. The creator said at the

I have a friend who was actually deep into it in the nineties with his parents. They went digging one or two times during the summer. The creator said at the time that a 15yo high schooler could solve the game. Around 2008 we tried it again for fun because surely, with the Internet, Wikipedia and Google Map it would be solvable! Well, no, all we got was feeling stupid and some new knowledge about France geography and history ;) The thing is, while all the basic puzzles have been solved a long time ago, past the first ones you are never sure of anything. My intuition is that there are too many false leads. Moreover the "mega-astuce" (the last puzzle) the article mentioned is supposed to be from the leads you didn't use up until now, so you have to know which one, and this is the one which indicates the precise position. We still check the forums from time to time and frankly it's going nowhere, the same debates over and over. I also don't care for all the drama the article speaks about. In the end I don't think "solvable by a 15 yo" was accurate as when we checked the solution to another one of the creator hunts it was incredibly difficult, which was demoralizing. Fun fact, Max Valentin found a digging hole not far from the actual owl in 1996. Those people were so close but may never know...