MW Armchair Treasure Hunt: Hidden in Time’s Past Solved!

Another MW Armchair Treasure Hunt has been solved!  Congrats to Beth Hovanec/GeneticBlend for the successful find!

The treasure hunt: Hidden in Time’s Past was included Free in the recently published book, Introduction to Codes and Ciphers.  The first person to solve the puzzle would receive $500 cash.  This puzzle marked the 8th MW Treasure Hunt, and to date, MW has rewarded over $2000 dollars to winners through these treasure hunts! (This total does not include the value rewarded in the Forrest Fenn Gold Medallion Treasure Hunts or MW’s Tap4Treasure, and Awesome GiveAways!- (with those rewards, the total most likely values over $10,000 dollars!) (Subscribe to MW today!)

As of this writing, there remains one unsolved MW Treasure Hunt worth $500 cash yet to give away.  This puzzle: The Forgotten Word, can be found in the book Armchair Treasure Hunts: The Quests for Hidden Treasures.  The hunt was released in August 2018.  When might it be solved?

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The MW Treasure Hunt: Hidden in Time’s Past was meant to be quickly solved, like the FFGM Treasure Hunts.  A video was released on the MW YouTube Channel which offered a huge clue to where the coded stone might be hidden.  The book then was only used to confirm ‘which one’ or exactly where.

Here is the Video.  I’m sure you could have discerned the structure!  I’m ‘under’ the structure hiding the stone, and the famous color of these is clearly seen!

In the following story, Beth Hovanec shares her story, and how living in the NorthEast, where many of these structures of Time’s Past are protected, helped her recognize that the Coded Stone was hidden in a small park of one of the many beautiful Covered Bridges of the regions. The only Twin Bridges in the USA!

Below is her solution and story to the MW Treasure Hunt: Hidden in Time’s Past:

I felt certain from the video that the location was a covered bridge. There are many of them in Pennsylvania, and the color is unmistakable. The illustration showing “only 1” in the US gave it away. All you had to do was google that with “covered bridge”, and the East and West Paden Bridges, also known as the “Twin Bridges”, came up in the search.

The numbers 487 around the clock confirmed it was the Twin Bridges because they are right off of Route 487. “Beneath east end’s corner” (Caesar Shift) struck me as odd because it said “endS”, and not just “end”. This too seemed to confirm that it was a pair of bridges.

The Atbash Cipher of “Small Park” also acted as a confirmer. And it helped to know that this bridge is close to where you live! We left at 6:30 am, arrived at the bridge at 11am, and knew exactly where to go. I had to push back a few cobwebs under the bridge, stand on my tip toes, move one rock, and there it was, the painted rock! Thanks for the adventure!

P.S. I did not solve the letters around the clock.

Congrats again to Beth!  She solved the clues and found the treasure!

(PS- MW is not going to reveal the method for solving the Clock Letters at this time)

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