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by m0ngr31 2021 days ago
I've posted this before, but I thought myself GIS to help find the treasure and wrote a webapp to narrow down the search area (https://intothefor.rest)

I personally believe the main reason the finder won't release the location is because he found it on federal land (probably Yellowstone). But hopefully some day we'll know closer than just "Wyoming".

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I was thinking that it was might of been on private land and if the location was known, the land owner would have a claim to the treasure.
I thought that the solution was posted in one of the many articles about this. Something based on numbers/digits embedded in the words of the poem (e.g. one=>1 too=>2 etc), and the digits wrap around the end of the poem, but you're supposed to start at the word "begin".

Unfortunately I am unable to find it in my browser history.

From the article,

When asked if figuring out the puzzles required the use of anagrams, or GPS coordinates, or sophisticated codes of any sort, Stuef was clear in his response.

“No,” . . .