Week 4: Buzzard’s Booty: Quest for the Lost JBT Treasure enters penultimate phase

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Welcome to Week 4 of Buzzard’s Booty: Quest for the Lost JBT Treasure! You’re deep in the tunnels now, and the path to glory is lined with clues, twists, and maybe even a piano made of bones—so choose your steps wisely. As Mikey warned, “If you hit the wrong note, we’ll all ‘B flat’!”

If you missed the Week 4 Monday Missive sent out on April 28 at around 8 am, you can find it here. You need to complete that task before you can finish this week’s set of challenges.

Last Call
Last call on the Buzzard’s Booty: Quest for the Lost JBT Treasure special celebration for all treasure hunters on Saturday, May 10, 2025, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the centrally located Lititz branch, located at 670 Furnace Hills Pike. Join us for light appetizers from Catering with Care and refreshing alcoholic beverages courtesy of Roaming Libations as we celebrate the end of the hunt! It’s the perfect opportunity to meet the winners, connect with fellow adventurers, swap your wildest treasure-hunting stories, and laugh about all the rabbit holes we fell into along the way. Stop by even if you haven’t finished the adventure. Click here to RSVP. The deadline for RSVP is Monday, May 5, at 2 pm.

Follow the clues, track your rivals on the leaderboard and heatmap, and remember: Goonies never say die!

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Register your team.
Order your treasure diary.

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The journey presses on with another mysterious page from Abe Buzzard’s memoir. Decipher the clues to reveal your next challenge—but tread carefully because “this is nothing like my mother’s Steinway…” Good luck out there. The treasure’s still up for grabs, and the competition is heating up!

Week 4A Challenge

Time moves slow in a prison cell, so a man’s got to find ways to keep his mind sharp. Some of us took to crafting puzzles—little games to pass the time, sure, but also a clever way to hide messages from prying eyes. We’d bury secrets in numbers, knowing only the right mind could piece them together. If you’re as sharp as I hope, you’ll do the same. Fill in the empty boxes like a crossword, using every number just once. There’s only one way they all fit, and you’ll know you’re on the right track if you start with 56862. Solve it, and you’ll have what you need.

Once you have the answer, click here.
Hint: The password is five digits long. You are unaffected by retail hours for this challenge segment.

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