Featured Question with Forrest Fenn and The Thrill of the Chase Treasure Hunt: Gut Feeling
Mr. Fenn, Summer is here. How is your gut feeling? Hopeful My gut feeling is wavering.f Best of luck with all that you seek! Always Treasure the Adventure!
The Signs in the Fandango Armchair Treasure Hunt
On page 44 of the Fandango armchair treasure hunt book are numerous signs of various colors and place names with number amounts that seem to hold clues for solving the hunt and claiming its $10,000 cash prize. A few things have been noticed about the Fandango signs so far. For …
Six Questions with Custard Marks: The Creator of CustardQuest Armchair Treasure Hunts
Read, Unravel, Retrieve, Redeem! Four easy steps to claim cash prizes in CustardQuest treasure hunts. The following Six Questions is with the creator of these exciting armchair treasure hunts. Since 2012, over $1000 in cash has been awarded to finders! One hunt, CustardQuest IV, remains yet to be solved, and …
Blink: The World’s Fastest Card Game
You don’t always need a lot of time to play a game. This is especially true with the game of Blink! Advertized as the world’s fastest game, Blink is what players better not do while playing or it could cost them the game! Two players compete at being the quickest …
What Happened to Bloody Island? by John Davis
What Happened to Bloody Island? Article Written by John Davis On a brisk morning, with wind wafting off the Mississippi river across from St. Louis, Missouri, the men faced each other with pistols, at barely more than arm’s length. They’d come to shoot at one another because of an ‘offense …
MW’s Friday Five: What’s Inside the Forrest Fenn Treasure Chest?
In the 2018 Six Questions with Forrest Fenn, he mentioned he had a gut feeling his treasure chest might be found in the summer. Some might ask, ‘What’s all inside the treasure chest?’ What is a searcher going to find? Here are the five items a searcher will surely find …
Mysterious Stranger by David Blaine: Armchair Treasure Hunt Solved in 2004
David Blaine, the infamous street magician, illusionist and endurance artist, published a book, Mysterious Stranger, in October 2002. This book was over 200 pages and included an armchair treasure hunt with a prize worth $100,000 dollars. It was solved in March of 2004 and the cash prize awarded. The winner …
MW Codes, Ciphers, and Puzzle Series: The Polybius Square and Tap Code
One of the first armchair hunts my family and I worked on used the Polybius Square as its method of encoding. It was the 2004 Armchair Treasure Hunt entitled A Treasure’s Trove. The Polybius Square, in its most commonly used form, is a 5×5 grid filled with the alphabet. The …
Mcloughlin Bros. 1875 Games of Life’s Mishaps, Domino Rex, and Diamond and Hearts
Portraying the form of books when closed and out of their slipcase, the three board games of Life’s Mishaps, Domino Rex, and Diamond Hearts, discreetly sat on a shelf waiting to be pulled down for a night of entertainment. The board of Life’s Mishaps is featured fully on the outside …
MW Friday Five: Top Five Missing Movie Props Worth Thousands
It is sometimes unbelievable the amount of money Movie Memorabilia can go for. Movie Memorabilia can be in the form of props, costumes, posters, scripts, or other objects connected to a film. Take for example a movie poster for, The Mummy. In 1997, it was auctioned off for 453,000. Which …