This is the 24th in a series on Six Questions with Searchers of The Thrill of the Chase Treasure Hunt by Forrest Fenn. Questions are asked and then answered by those who are enjoying Forrest’s dare! (Read how you can participate) (note: if you had sent one in the past, and it …
Collecting games and researching their history provides an adventure off board. The 1870 McLoughlin Bros. game of Tight Rope is such an example. The images and story for the game not only include the most famous tight rope walker of the time, Blondin, but a hidden deeper layer of meaning …
We receive various emails asking how to best navigate the MW Website to find Forrest Fenn material. It is extremely simple! I think some Forrest Fenn Searchers could be thrown off a bit because they come to the MW Website expecting it to be ALL about The Thrill of the …
Mr. Fenn, what is a habit of yours that you would like to break? ~Tom I am too inefficient. Maybe that isn’t a habit, but whatever it is I would like to break it. f Best of luck with all that you seek! Treasure the Adventure!
The Sacred Scarab treasure hunt marks the third of a series of successful treasure hunts hosted by MW. It was released on December 21st, 2017 and remains unsolved (as of this writing). A Third Clue for this hunt is given below: Two other clues were previously released: Each month …
The old 1910 Grandma’s Game of Riddles is part of a series of six games by Milton Bradley which taught players on a wide range of topics. Milton Bradley in the early twentieth century brought out a series of six games. The title’s of which are as follows: Grandma’s Game …
One of the instructions to be found within Forrest Fenn’s Poem is the phrase ‘Look quickly down’. As seen in the poem, this instruction comes after you’ve been wise and found the Blaze. Here is that section of Poem. It is Stanza 4 of the total 6 Stanzas. (full poem: …
Dear Mr. Fenn, If the treasure goes undiscovered for another 1000 years, do you feel the person that discovers it in 3018 would have followed the poem precisely to do so, or might they have happened upon it? ~Cricket That question is too hypothetical for me to answer accurately, …
The three bookshelf games, Captive Princess, Tournament, and Pathfinders, published by McLoughlin Brothers. in 1875, are designed and formed to mimic books when folded. McLoughlin Bros. made many of these triple style game books during the late-mid to late 1800’s. The instructions and pieces for the games were usually housed …
This segment of MW Codes, Ciphers, and Puzzles talks about the Ottendorf Cipher. Those of you who have watched the movie, National Treasure, are probably familiar with it, but just might not remember the characters saying the specific name for what the cipher was in the movie. In the …
