Lion's Share Box Clues, Facts, and Theories (There's Treasure Inside Treasure Hunt)

The Lion’s Share box is the largest and most valuable treasure box hidden in the There’s Treasure Inside treasure hunt. It holds treasures valued over a million.

What Facts are Known about the Lion’s Share Box?

The Lion’s Share box is the largest treasure box and holds the most treasure – valued well over a million. The exact treasures found in this box are not given – it will be a surprise.
There are no proxies. When you find this treasure box it will be filled with treasures talked about in the book.
Clues to this box are scattered throughout the entire book – front cover to back.
One or two clues to this box are also in his children’s book – Our Unbreakable Thread (however, these clues, the one or two in Our Unbreakable Thread are not necessary). All the clues needed to find this chest are in the book, There’s Treasure Inside
This box is said to be more difficult to solve – compared to the other 4 smaller treasure boxes – even though there are more clues given to find it.
A unique laminated – additional helpful clue – is inside each of the smaller treasure boxes (total of 4 clues to be found) for finding this box.
The box is hidden somewhere in the United States. In the MW Six Questions, Jon mentioned once all the clues for the Lion’s Share box are understood correctly, the location of where the treasure box is hidden is given pretty exact. He mentioned this would be the case for “probably one or more of the other boxes” as well.
The treasures are hidden inside a puzzle box – made by Seth Gould. This too holds a prized value. It is made of brass, steel and iron – it will take 7 clever actions to open the puzzle box to view the treasures. Jon placed instructions with the hidden box so you can open it.

Lion’s Share Treasure Box Hidden Location and Clues to it?

What is known about the Lion’s Share Treasure box location. Jon has said the following:

“There is at least one clue — or combination of clues — that will take you to a fairly exact spot. Other clues may lead to a larger search area. The good news is once you are close to this box, it might surprise you how simple it was to find” (MW Six Q’s 11/10/25)
On the Joy’s Serenade Poem – “I don’t think there is any information in the poem or related to part 2 of the book” (THWU 11/11/25)
When asked ‘If you had one particular type of interest, maybe it wasn’t the histories, but it was the other components, would that be sufficient to lead us to a particular location?’ Jon answered: “Yes I think so.” (OCSOAT 11/10/25)
He was asked if outside research is needed or all in the book? Jon answered: “Yes, you could find helpful information (outside the book)….. but it is not the be all and end all.” (OCSOAT)

Where are the Lion’s Share Treasure Box Clues Found?

Jon has said clues for the Lion’s Share box can be found anywhere in the book. On page 10 it is written:

“…almost every chapter in Part One of this book offers at least one important detail to help guide you to the location of the largest box.” (Lion’s Share box)

Part 1 Chapters: Highlights, Clues, and Theories

What are the Clues to the Lion’s Share Box?

Until the box is found it is unclear what clues are intended for the Lion’s Share box. However, there have been some anomalies found that may be clues.

Chapter 9: No page 90
Chapter 13: Reference to page number wrong
Notched Letters in Chapter Titles
Header Anomalies (chapters 9 and 13)

Although there have been typos identified it seems these are just that typos – and not clues. JCB addressed the typos on his website. He said: I did not misspell any words, abbreviations, or proper nouns in my book intentionally. Nor did I state any incorrect dates or ages on purpose.”