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The results are in for the fourth annual Uncharted Lancaster Treasure Hunt—JBT and Radiers of the Golden Osprey! After 29 days of heart-pounding adventures and exhilarating dives into local history, the Golden Osprey has been claimed! A huge congratulations to Triples is best, who soared to victory and clinched the $1,500 top prize! Pro Tip: If you are looking to win next year, you might want to consider getting matching embroidered jackets. 😉
Three minutes behind were The Night Owls, who secured a fantastic second place and won $1,000! And let’s hear it for Team Strybos, who captured third place and a cool $500! They also racked up a whopping 100,400 on the leaderboard.
Special shoutout to SMH, a family of four that includes a kindergartner and third grader. They not only claimed the fourth-place leaderboard prize with an impressive 95,000 points but were also the fourth team to find the treasure!
Thank you to all 721 participants on 182 teams who made this year’s treasure hunt another memorable event. I loved your enthusiasm and dedication to exploring our local history. It’s your spirit that makes this event so special each year. Furthermore, your generous treasure diary purchases helped raise $4,237.88 for the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County and about $500 for LancasterHistory.
Of course, a BIG tip of the fedora 🤠 to this year’s sponsors: Jonestown Bank & Trust Co., Brookfield Renewable US, Hammel Associates Architects LLC, White Chimneys Estate, LancasterHistory, Lancaster Troll Market, and JK Mechanical. Their support and contributions made this fantastic event possible.
I hope you enjoyed participating in this year’s adventure as much as I enjoyed creating it. If so, mark your calendar because the fifth annual Uncharted Lancaster treasure hunt returns on Saturday, April 12, 2025, as players search for the lost loot of the notorious Buzzard Gang. The contest will conclude on Saturday, May 10, 2025. If you or your company want to sponsor the 2025 hunt, click here.
Warning Spoilers Ahead!
Players have requested an explanation of the various challenges, and I have provided them below. Stop reading here if you are still trying to solve the JBT and Raiders of the Golden Osprey treasure hunt for the consolation prizes of wooden nickels and plastic gold coins.
Side Quests
While the official weekly challenges did not begin until Saturday, April 6, 2024, two side quests were immediately available when the contest was officially announced on March 16, 2024. However, they were hidden for clever participants to find and unlock. While neither revealed a portion of the treasure’s GPS coordinates, they did provide players with a sense of the gameplay for that year’s adventure. They also added points to the leaderboard, improving a team’s odds of winning the honorable mention prize of $250.
Side Quest 1A
Location: On the “Phoenician treasure hidden in the Susquehanna Valley” web page.
Solution: glyph
Starting the first side quest required participants to carefully read through the “Phoenician treasure hidden in the Susquehanna Valley” web page. Observant readers noticed what appeared to be five randomly bolded letters in the text. When strung together, you get the acronym ASCII.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is the most common character encoding format for text data on computers and the internet. In standard ASCII-encoded data, there are unique values for 128 alphabetic, numeric, and special characters.
The article also contained a photograph of two books from 1961 highlighting the Phoenicians rowing their boats up the Susquehanna 2,000 years before Columbus “discovered” America. A careful examination of the image showed a series of numbers printed on both books. When those numbers are applied to an ASCII table, the web address for Side Quest 1A is revealed.
However, the page is password-protected. So, where is the password? The article also included a screenshot of an LNP article from the November 19, 1961, edition of The Sunday News on discovering the possibility of Phoenicians sailing the Susquehanna River. I carefully replaced the image with a photograph of several slate tiles engraved with Phoenician letters containing the password. If you read the caption, you can see that it does not match the image. A quick Google search for the Phoenician alphabet provided a translation table.
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Side Quest 1B
Destination: Trout Run Nature Preserve
Solution: 189971
Side Quest 1B had the riddle, “The only place fish don’t swim,” along with a map with no names. I provided the map as Lancaster and Lebanon Counties have a Trout Run.
Easter Egg Alerts: The password of 189971 was Indiana Jones’ birthday, July 1, 1899. The “map with no names” in the treasure diary directly references the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie.
Side Quest 2A
Location: JBT advertisement in the treasure diary
Solution: noticket
Some people initially struggled to find the second side of the quest. It was accessed by scanning the QR Code in the JBT advertisement found in the treasure diary.
This page highlighted JBT’s past and included two images of its earliest bank locations. If you wait a few seconds, the pictures reveal themselves as GIFs rather than static images. They contain the URL and password for accessing the side quest.
Easter Egg Alert: The password of “no ticket” was a comedic line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie where after throwing a Nazi officer out the window of an airship, he says “No ticket!” to all the passengers. People immediately start waving their tickets in the air.
Side Quest 2B
Destination: Manheim JBT branch
Solution: 51285
Side Quest 2B provided players with the following diary page.
Another word for cable is telegram. Everyone who purchased a treasure diary received a telegram sent by Philip Beistline. This Mechanicsburg schoolteacher was the first to discover a trove of 400 flat stones adorned with enigmatic markings scattered across Cumberland and York Counties that were believed to be Phoenicians. On the half sheet of paper was an address of the telegram “Branch Office.” A closer inspection showed it was the address of a JBT branch in Manheim. In the lobby was a laser-engraved slate tile with the golden osprey symbol. The tile acted as a paperweight. These handouts contained the password.
Easter Egg Alert: The telegram was inspired by the intercepted Nazi telegram from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. If you want your own intercepted Nazi telegram, check out the product below.
Week 1: Hunt for the Golden Osprey begins!
Week 1A Challenge
Location: Treasure Diary
Solution: birdsinthesky
When the treasure hunt officially began on April 6, players were greeted with more information from Dr. Strong’s diary. Participants would eventually collect 52 (typically digital) pages of Strong’s diary. That equals 13 sheets of 8.5 “x 11” paper printed double-sided. If you want a copy of the complete diary, click here to order yours.
In this new diary page, Dr. Strong highlighted the discovery of a stone tablet found near a temple. It was covered with mysterious symbols. The word temple is mentioned several times and underlined to highlight its importance. A Google search for temple cipher returns Knights Templar Code Cipher as the first result.
When decoded, it reads:
Peel back your name
while careful not to maim
if the treasure you hope to claim
It refers to the address label the treasure diary arrived in. If you peel back the sticker, you will find the following message and image.
Easter Egg Alert: This is a quote from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Partway through the film, Indiana and his father, Henry, are trying to escape from some Nazi airplanes in a car. The car gets bombed, and they are trapped on a beach with a bunch of birds. Daddy Jones suddenly charges at a bunch of seagulls, flapping his umbrella. The startled gulls take off, and the airplane flies through them and crashes. And then Henry says, “I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. ‘Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky.’ “
Week 1B Challenge
Location: JBT branch in Jonestown, PA
Solution: 1210313
Week 1B unlocked another page of Dr. Strong’s diary. In it, he recounts the true tale of how Jonestown nearly became the county seat of Lebanon without mentioning the word Jonestown. In addition to hinting at what town to visit, the diary page even provides an address—”crossroads of Lancaster and Market streets”—for your GPS.
At the intersection is a Jonestown Bank & Trust Co (one of the treasure hunt’s sponsors). The eagle on the front of the building was included in the diary page.
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Players were to enter the JBT and, as instructed by the diary, say the following phrase, “Genius of the restoration” to a bank employee. That person would respond saying, “Aid our own resuscitation!” and present the player with a JBT bag and half of a cipher disk. Using the disk, you could decode the numeric passcode.
Easter Egg Alert: This is a quote from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. About half an hour from the end, Indy and his father are trying to rescue their friend, Marcus Brody, from a Nazi convoy on its way to find the Holy Grail. Henry drops into the tank in which his old friend is being held and greets him by singing, with a strange little flappy-dance, “Genius of the restoration…” to which a surprised Marcus replies, making his own odd motions, “…aid our own resuscitation!” It is a Manhattan University Club toast.
Week 1C Challenge
Destination: Bridge on the rail trail near Jonestown
Solution: 380697
For the first week’s final challenge, players were exploring a segment of a Lebanon County rail trail. A Google search of “Phase 9 rail trail” highlighted a 4.2 section of the Lebanon Valley Rail Trail a short distance from the bank participants visited in the 1B challenge. Hiking this section of the trail revealed the existence of two bridges. To help players know which bridge to examine, the diary entry included a picture. I still had several teams contact me when they couldn’t find the marker sure it was missing. When I asked for a picture of where they were, they sent photographs of the other bridge. I felt like Indy and Sally when they realized Belloq was “looking in the wrong place.”
The diary page also included intertwined Alpha and Omega symbols. I split the password in half, placing markers on both ends of the bridge. Contestants needed to find both pieces to assemble the password.
Week 2: Hunt for the Golden Osprey continues!
Week 2A1 Challenge
Destination: Jonestown Bank and Trust Company in Lititz
Solution: brandt
The Week 2A challenge had two main components, each with two parts. First, players had to figure out where to go and then what to do.
The where to go required using a three word search. A lot of people overthought this challenge. If you google “what three words,” the first result is the what3words website. They have divided the entire planet into three-meter squares. Each grid has been assigned a unique combination of three words to identify the location. With a bit of trial and error, you can figure out what three words. They are vanished, chamber, and trappings. That takes you to the Lititz Jonestown Bank and Trust Company branch.
They had a massive 1860 map of Lebanon County on display in a conference room near the front door. If you put the top-left-hand corner of a dollar bill at the angle hinted at in the image, the top right-hand corner touches the solution.
Week 2A2 Challenge
Destination: Jonestown Bank and Trust Company in Lititz
Solution: piously
The second part of the Week 2A challenge required another sign of “You’re a teacher?” and a countersign of “Part-time” with a bank employee. With that, players were rewarded with the other half of the cipher disk and another page of the diary.
Easter Egg Alert: The sign and countersign is a quote from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In a scene where Jones beats up some bad guys, Mutt says in disbelief, “You’re a teacher!” Indiana responds, “Part-time.”
Using the second half of the cipher disk, participants can easily unlock the password that reveals the Week 2B challenge.
Week 2B Challenge
Destination: Millstone Trail at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area
Solution: 7601
Using the diary page they received in the previous challenge, players quickly deduced they needed to traverse the Millstone Trail at Middle Creek and find the hidden marker.
Week 2C Challenge
Destination: Treasure Diary
Solution: osuvox
The final challenge of Week 2 required the treasure diary. Players were presented with the following riddle:
This is no April Fool’s joke
as mistakes the answer cloak.
The first line referred to the diary entry made on April 1. If you read the text carefully, you will notice multiple words are missing a letter. Those omitted characters spell the word osuvox. The side-by-side diary entries below highlight the errors.
Easter Egg Alert: Osuvox refers to the Orb of Osuvox from one of my favorite books (and movies), Ready Player One. It is a Level 99 magic artifact that creates a spherical shield around itself that is completely impenetrable and indestructible to everything. The only way to activate or deactivate the shield is via a magic spell.
Week 3: Hunt for the Golden Osprey is afoot!
Week 3A1 Challenge
Destination: Treasure Diary
Solution: melqart
Week 3 began with the following riddle:
The answer is revealed under bright light
But only where the sun and moon unite.
Odd-looking symbols, some resembling letters or parts of letters, were at the top of several treasure diary pages. Next to each one was a small black-and-white image. Players needed to find the one containing a sun and another with the moon.
If you laid the two pages on top of each other so the images were touching, the unreadable symbols transformed into a word, Melqart. He was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons.
Week 3A2 Challenge
Destination: A grave in Mount Bethel Cemetery in Columbia, PA
Solution: 3674
Week 3A2 revealed yet another page of the treasure diary. The where-to-go poem talks about finding the graveyard where Robert Crane’s tomb is. Robert Crane was the superintendent for the Reading and Columbia Railroad. In June 1863, he supervised the placement of explosives on the Wrightsville-Columbia Covered Bridge as Confederate forces approached. He eventually gave the order to light the bridge on fire. Unable to cross the Susquehanna, Rebel forces turned West, setting the stage for the Battle of Gettysburg a few days later. You can read more about the burning of the bridge here.
Once you got to the cemetery, players had to find a tombstone that contained all four images shown on the diary page.
Week 3A3 Challenge
Destination: A grave in Mount Bethel Cemetery in Columbia, PA
Solution: 134
The process repeated with a new diary page forcing participants had to find another gravestone that matched the new image.
Week 3A4 Challenge
Destination: A grave in Mount Bethel Cemetery in Columbia, PA
Solution: salliedowning
The process repeated a final time with a new diary page with another matching tomb to locate.
Easter Egg Alert: This mad dash in the Mount Bethel Cemetery was my homage to the basket game in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie. In the film, Marion hides from her chasers in a large basket. Unfortunately, they find her, tying the lid firmly in place. At this point, the villains run off with the basket, with Indy following behind. When he turns the corner, he finds a crowded market filled with people carrying identical baskets. Indy runs from basket to basket, tipping them over as he looks for Marion.
Week 3B Challenge
Destination: Musselman-Vesta Furnace in Marietta, PA
Solution: molaram
The Week 3B challenge opened with a new page from the treasure diary. In it, Dr. Strong suggests visiting the Musselman-Vesta Furnace and talks of a connection between the location and “the Word of the Golden Osprey” (another page in the treasure diary). The diary entry also includes a sketch that indicates which pier to examine.
If you stand in front of the correct pier, the cutout notches highlight which symbols to translate. With a bit of patience, the passphrase of molaram is revealed.
Easter Egg Alert: The Word of the Golden Osprey was inspired by The Word of God challenge in the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie. It requires a person to spell out the name of God, or rather the Latinization of God’s proper Hebrew name, Jehovah, one of seven in Judaism. And, humorously, we’re told that in Latin, Jehovah begins with an “I” as Indy steps on the “J,” revealing the deadly secret. The secret is, if you step on the wrong letter, you fall to your death.
Also, the password of Mola Ram was the name of the main villain in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Week 3C Challenge
Destination: Base of Chickies Rock along the Northwest River Trail
Solution: 4008
Players were presented with another poem at the start of the Week 3C challenge.
In the shadow of Chickies Rock,
find a 13-ton salamander block.
Hunt nearby for a bumpy V
and the marker you will see.
Just .7 miles away from the Musselman-Vesta Furnace is Chickies Rock. Visible from the Northwest River Trail as you approach the imposing rock face on the left is the 13-ton salamander. An information sign on the trail even talks about it.
Here is a brief overview. During the excavation of a new water line in 2015, the iron salamander was discovered at the original location of the Chickies #1 Furnace. In the metallurgy dialect, a salamander means all liquid and solidified materials in the hearth of a blast furnace below the tap hole. They are also sometimes referred to as a deadman’s foot or furnace bear.
This particular salamander is composed of the remaining iron left in the stack after the Chickies #1 Furnace was shut down. The estimated weight of this enormous slab of iron is 13 tons. It was moved along the south side of the Northwest River Trail near the base of Chickies Rock as a visual monument to the iron industry that once flourished in this area.
Just beyond the salamander is a tree I referred to as a “bumpy V.” The Week 3 marker was attached to it.
Week 4: Golden Osprey hunt enters penultimate phase
Week 4A Challenge
Destination: Phone number to call
Solution: 7172082185
Week 4 started with the following riddle poem:
The poem mentions the word chevalier, which is an old word for knight. In the treasure diary, there is a small black-and-white image of a knight. If you shine a blacklight on it, the first six digits of a phone number become visible.
The last four digits are revealed using the cipher disk. When you called the number beginning Saturday, April 27 at 9:30 am, it went straight to voicemail with the following message:
In Lancaster’s heart, a special Star resides
where an Apostle and royal collides.
To move forward, this is your only shot.
“Could X actually mark the spot?”
The “Apostle and royal collides” line refers to the intersection of East James and North Duke Streets in Lancaster, PA. On the corner is a Jewish synagogue, Congregation Shaarai Shomayim. The phrase “special Star” means the Star of David.
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The final line of the poem says, “Could X actually mark the spot?” This exact phrase is referenced in the treasure diary. The simple sketch and the synagogue match. The diary page suggests looking for an oval on the front of the building. It is a Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County marker. The number engraved on it is the password.
Easter Egg Alert: The “Could X actually mark the spot?” line is a direct reference to the Last Crusade movie, where at the beginning of the film Indy first says, “X never, ever marks the spot!” Later, he changes his mind and says, “X marks the spot.” Here’s a YouTube clip highlight the famous line.
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Week 4B1 Challenge
Destination: LancasterHistory
Solution: 4500
The Week 4B challenge presented players with another riddle.
Beyond cresting brick waves
lay Cocalico stones from olden days.
Located at a Historical Society site,
is where to make your flight.
There are only so many historical societies in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties. A Google image search reveals that only one looks like waves: LancasterHistory. Behind the building are two massive corn milling stones. The informational sign calls them Cocalico stones. Players are further instructed to find their combined weight.
Week 4B2 Challenge
Destination: LancasterHistory
Solution: sunburst
The Week 4B2 challenge revealed another page of Dr. Strong’s diary. It required finding an exhibit on display at LancasterHistory that matched a page in the diary. The diary also suggests the key to breaking the Polybius square cipher is in RED. Next to the exhibit was a LED sign with the word MASCOT in all CAPS, and in red.
Easter Egg Alerts: In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Helena talks about using either Linear B or Polybius Square to decipher a clue that will lead them to the location of the Antikythera.
The password of sunburst refers to the McGuffin in an obscure 1954 film, Secret of the Incas. Charlton Heston plays Harry Steele, a proto-Indiana Jones character in the movie. Steele isn’t an archaeologist, though. He’s an American adventurer who earns a living as a seedy tourist guide in Peru.
Steele’s ultimate goal—and the film’s MacGuffin—is to find the Sunburst. It is a gold disk encrusted with over 100 diamonds and precious jewels. Legend says this ancient Peruvian treasure has the power to restore the Inca empire to its former glory.
The Sunburst makes a brief cameo in Raiders at about the six-minute mark as Indy and Satipo enter the inner sanctum of the Chachapoyan temple to retrieve the golden idol.
Week 4C Challenge
Destination: Susquehannock State Park
Solution: 6753
The Week 4C challenge presented players with the following diary page. It mentions finding a state protected park. There are only a handful of state parks in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties. In fact, Lancaster only has one—Susquehannock State Park. The diary’s image highlights a tree with a yellow blaze and a Susquehannock from John Smith’s famous 1608 map of Virginia. This image confirms the destination of Susquehannock State Park.
When you arrive at the park, spotting the “dwelling long neglected” is easy. The 1850 structure belonged to James Buchanan Long. He was among the last sickle makers in Drumore township, having worked alongside his grandfather and father. Read more about the Drumore sickle here.
Behind the house is the Rhododendron Trail. Following the trail, you eventually come to a stone-lined spring and by the foundation of the cabin that Revolutionary War veteran Thomas Neel built down in the ravine. He was deeded this land of 99 “vacant acres” in 1787 in exchange for his service. He married Margaret, and they raised two sons. He purchased more vacant land and his sons Thomas and Hugh inherited over 300 hundred acres upon his death in 1847.
The marker is nearby on a yellow-blazed tree.
Easter Egg Alerts: The marker had the number 6753. These four digits were part of the identifying number used on the crate that held the Ark of the Covenant in the cavernous warehouse of Hangar 51 from 1936. The full serial number was 9906753. The first half was used later in the Week 5C challenge.
The “dwelling long neglected” line was another direct reference to the book Ready Player One. In the story, Parzival is searching for the location of the second gate. The Quatrain, as Parzival calls it, reveals its location.
The captain conceals the Jade Key
in a dwelling long neglected
But you can only blow the whistle
once the trophies are all collected.
I was originally going to use the line during the 2022 Find My Easter Egg treasure hunt, which rifted heavily on Ready Player One.
Week 5: Hunt for the Golden Osprey comes to its thrilling conclusion!
Week 5A1 Challenge
Destination: Palmyra, PA
To ensure a fair and exciting finale, the players were given the following poem on the night before the treasure hunt’s finale. It provided the location of that Saturday’s first diary challenge.
Named for a Syrian Roman outpost
has been this town’s proud boast.
A Google search for “name of a Syrian Roman outpost” quickly returned the results of Palmyra.
Week 5A2 Challenge
Destination: JBT branch in Palmyra, PA.
Solution: hillmill
The Week 5A2 challenge presented players with the following riddle poem and image:
Search the words of three ancient tomes
And you will no longer have to roam.
“A treasure of savings” awaits for you.
Scan and the answer you will construe.
The first two lines and the image provided a location of where to go in Palmyra. It was another three word search utilizing the words unread, antlers, and courts. Many players guessed the JBT branch as the destination and were on site by 9 am.
In the grass in front of the JBT, there was a yard sign containing the phrase “A treasure of savings” with a QR Code to scan. It took you to a JBT web page that contained a series of bolded letters.
Those letters spelled out another poem.
The password unlocks
when you put help in a box.
The word “help” only appears one time in the treasure diary. It was on the page participants received in Lititz. If you place the cipher disk over the word, the passphrase becomes visible.
Week 5B Challenge
Destination: Mount Gretna Train Station
Solution: iiiviix
Players were greeted with another diary page. The passage basically tells you to visit the site of the old Mount Grenta train station and find the water tower where the marker is.
Easter Egg Alert: The password of iiiviix was a direct reference to the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The Roman numerals of III, VII, and X mark the location of the second tablet needed to help reveal the location of the Holy Grail.
Week 5C Challenge
Destination: Governor Dick Observation Tower
Solution: 990
Contestants were presented with the following image written in what appeared to be a strange script.
When reflected in a mirror, the passage becomes legible. It reads:
Make your destination a concrete spire.
from atop five counties, you can admire.
Seek a nearby spot to sit and rest,
then look beneath for the marker I suggest.
The concrete spire referred to the silo-shaped tower at Clarence Schock Memorial Park. If you climb to the top on a clear day, you can see five different counties. The tower is surrounded by nine different benches and several more picnic tables. If you look beneath the benches, you eventually find the one with the marker. You can read more about the tower here.
Easter Egg Alert: The marker had the number 990. These three digits were part of the identifying number used on the crate that held the Ark of the Covenant in the cavernous warehouse of Hangar 51 from 1936. The full serial number was 9906753. The second half was used in the Week 4C challenge.
Week 5D Challenge
Destination: None.
Solution: 3156
There’s a lot to unpack here, with multiple places for user error. Participants were given the following information broken down into three steps.
Step 1 provided the location of the key and how to decipher it. Juillet is French or July. Ides means the 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of any other month in the ancient Roman calendar. In the diary there is a July 15th entry.
Next, you apply a Beale cipher to the passage using the two sets of numbers you got at the end of week 4. Those numbers were 72, 83, 82, 5, 69, 45, 80, 55, 82, 3, 66, 24, 88, 14, 10, and 77.
Beale cipher (also known as a book cipher) is a type of encryption in which two parties agree on a key, which is a specific text such as a book or other written document. The words in the text are then enumerated, and the encrypted text consists of numbers from the key. Beale made the book cipher famous when he allegedly encoded the location of a fabulous treasure using the Declaration of Independence.
However, if you applied the numbers to the July 15th passage, the results did not make any sense. Below an image of the Golden Osprey was another riddle poem.
But, FIRST, in plain sight, a final twist resides.
After this paragraph is where it hides.
Highlight the space, next copy/paste,
And the answer you will be graced.
For each number, take back one Kadam to honor the Hebrew God.
From a desktop computer, you can simply highlight the space with your mouse, and the text becomes visible. If you are using a mobile device, the challenge is more difficult. You need to copy and paste the text into the address bar of your phone’s browser or into a text message. Either way, this is what the passage says:
For each number, take back one Kadam to honor the Hebrew God.
That means you have to subtract one from each of the Beale cipher numbers, giving you 71, 82, 81, 4, 68, 44, 79, 54, 81, 2, 65, 23, 87, 13, 9, and 76. Applying these numbers to the passage completes step 2 and gives you the following letters: D, O, B, C, I, C, A, D, G, F, D, E, C, A, E, and F.
Next, you need to apply a classic A1Z26 substitution cipher with the addition of the letter O being equal to the number zero for step three to turn the letters into usable digits. Basically A = 1, Z = 26. This gives you the GPS coordinates.
Easter Egg Alert: In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy and Sallah go to have the headpiece to the Staff of Ra translated. The instructions written on the headpiece stated that the staff should be “six kadams high.” However, the obverse of the headpiece held specific instructions: the builder was to subtract one kadam out of respect for the Hebrew God. If you want your own 3D-printed Headpiece to the Staff of Ra, click here.
Week 5E Challenge
Destination: 40.239314, -76.453156
Solution: genesisdeluge
Easter Egg Alert: The final password of Genesis Deluge was the title of one of Rob MacGregor’s Indiana Jones novels.
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