Treasure Hunt

[Riddler]

I stumbled upon this on a search for one of the pics posted in the " Guess This Picture " topic. The website is apparently still under construction and I have no idea where it leads or what the outcome is, but I thought it might be fun to try and solve it together. Maybe when someone completes each stage, they can reply to this thread with an update to help the anyone who's stuck. Who's in ? :)

Treasure Hunter..........

START AT THE SITE WITH A PRESIDENT'S NAME,
BY CAR THROUGH A RIVER HE NOMINALLY CAME

(NO ORG, NET OR COUNTRY ARE NEEDED, MY FRIEND
MOST SITES IN THIS QUEST HAVE COM AT THE END!)

NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO
IS THE LINK TO JAPAN AND THE JOURNEY FOR YOU

TO THE UK YOU MUST NOW PROCEED
WHERE MODEL NUMBER FIVE IS THE ONE THAT YOU NEED

THE LETTER IN THE CENTRE OF THIS VEHICLE YOU SEE
IS ALSO THE CENTRE OF PRESIDENT THREE

WITH A D FOR AN N MAKE HIM SOUND LIKE HIS SON
THEN BELONGING TO HIM IS THE NEXT SITE TO COME

SPICY FOOD IS FOUND ON THESE CORPORATE PLATTERS
BUT AN AIRLESS DEVICE IS THE PRODUCT THAT MATTERS

THE FBI MAN IS THE ALTERNATIVE NAME
SO GO TO HIS SITE FOR FORTUNE AND FAME

THE CITY AFTER BOULDER IS IN BUSINESS TO TRAVEL
AND MAKES THIS CONUNDRUM BEGIN TO UNRAVEL

AS A GUIDE TO THIS DISTRICT WILL WINSOMELY SAY
A PRIME MINISTER'S SQUARE IS A STONE'S THROW AWAY

THE SITE WITH HIS NAME IS THE END THAT YOU SEEK
ABOUT VISION AND VALUES YOU MUST TAKE A PEEK

THE VERY FIRST VALUE IS THE ANSWER YOU CRAVE
YOU'LL FIND THAT THIS QUEST IS DESIGNED FOR THE BRAVE!

[ang3968]

I'm in....

but being an aussie Presidents aren't my strong point... :huh:

[Riddler]

Excellent, ang...! I would imagine there's something in here to stump most of us at some point, that's why I suggest a team approach. Anyone else want to take a crack at it ? B)

[bigboab]

I would think the first one was Ford.

[Riddler]

Way to go bigboab ! Now we're rollin'. :D

[Honey]

count me in too Riddler.. though like ang..

American presidents are not my forte!... :)

but hey i'll give it a shot!.. :)

[Riddler]

http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Excited.gif Allright Ozbabe !

And hey, I'll bet that everything we need to know about presidents, google can find it for us. :D

[bigboab]

President Cleveland fits in there somewhere. Ford Cleveland. Cleveland UK Etc. I will have a wee rest now and give someone else a shot. ;)

[cowswithguns]

Count me in too! :lol:

[Billy_Dean]

START AT THE SITE WITH A PRESIDENT'S NAME,
BY CAR THROUGH A RIVER HE NOMINALLY CAME

So, Ford. Went to Ford.com.


NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO
IS THE LINK TO JAPAN AND THE JOURNEY FOR YOU

The only Japanese link i can see is Mazda.

Mazda (http://www.ford.com/en/links/General/www_mazdausa_com/default.htm?referrer=home)

Can't get through to site.


:)

[Riddler]

Welcome aboard cwg !

Good work bb & BD. http://members.shaw.ca/wenpigsfly/smileys/clap.gif

Let us soldier onward. :D

[cowswithguns]

What about presidentford.com

President Ford (http://www.presidentford.com/)

[Riddler]

Hmmm.....I think BD was on the right track cwg, but we may have to find a different route into the " Japan Link " :huh:

[cowswithguns]

Would the third President be Warren G Harding?


mazda.co.uk to mx-5 ANGEL = middle letter G ?????

[Billy_Dean]

Or MX - 5? = Nixon.





:)

[Riddler]

Originally posted by cowswithguns@25 November 2003 - 05:07
Would the second one be Warren G Harding?


mazda.co.uk to mx-5 ANGEL = middle letter G ?????
:o Whoa....that looks good cwg. Was Harding the 3rd prez ?

[cowswithguns]

Yeah probably that one BD! :)

I edited to the 3rd Ridds.

[Riddler]

OK I think we need a recap. I'm a bit lost. :(

[Riddler]

NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO
IS THE LINK TO JAPAN AND THE JOURNEY FOR YOU

Did you go to the Ford Japan site, cuz it wouldn't load for me without installing a language pack.

[Billy_Dean]

START AT THE SITE WITH A PRESIDENT'S NAME,
BY CAR THROUGH A RIVER HE NOMINALLY CAME

Ford Went to ford.com


(NO ORG, NET OR COUNTRY ARE NEEDED, MY FRIEND
MOST SITES IN THIS QUEST HAVE COM AT THE END!)

NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO
IS THE LINK TO JAPAN AND THE JOURNEY FOR YOU

Link from ford.com to Japan = Mazda


TO THE UK YOU MUST NOW PROCEED
WHERE MODEL NUMBER FIVE IS THE ONE THAT YOU NEED

UK Mazda = MX-5


THE LETTER IN THE CENTRE OF THIS VEHICLE YOU SEE
IS ALSO THE CENTRE OF PRESIDENT THREE

mX-5 = X = Nixon

[ang3968]

so what was Nixon's sons name???....

surely it wasn't dixon..... :blink:

[Riddler]

Ok, I messed up. Thanks BD :)

[Billy_Dean]

??????????????????????????


WITH A D FOR AN N MAKE HIM SOUND LIKE HIS SON
THEN BELONGING TO HIM IS THE NEXT SITE TO COME

Nixon minus "N" plus "D" Dixon

MAKE HIM SOUND LIKE HIS SON Nixon = Richard = Dick = Dick's son = Dixon.


:)

[ang3968]

smart arse.....


:P

[Riddler]

Originally posted by Billy_Dean@25 November 2003 - 05:36
??????????????????????????


WITH A D FOR AN N MAKE HIM SOUND LIKE HIS SON
THEN BELONGING TO HIM IS THE NEXT SITE TO COME

Nixon minus "N" plus "D" Dixon

MAKE HIM SOUND LIKE HIS SON Nixon = Richard = Dick = Dick's son = Dixon.


:)
Oooo....tricky ! :lol:

[ang3968]

ok.. there is a dixon.com

and a dickson.com

[lynx]

Going back a bit, SECOND IN LINE at ford.com is the LINCOLN.

[Riddler]

Originally posted by lynx@25 November 2003 - 05:45
Going back a bit, SECOND IN LINE at ford.com is the LINCOLN.
:o Uh-oh.

[lynx]

BELONGING TO HIM

Does this make it dixons.com ?

[lynx]

AN AIRLESS DEVICE IS THE PRODUCT THAT MATTERS

Airless = vacuum = Hoover ???

[Billy_Dean]

Does this make it dixons.com ?

Went there and didn't see anything.

I'm worried about this bit ..


NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO


:)

[ang3968]

ok.. so follow that train....


NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO
IS THE LINK TO JAPAN AND THE JOURNEY FOR YOU

I can't find a link to Japan on the Lincoln site....

and who was the 2nd president??.... as it says 2nd in line before president two...........

[Riddler]

Originally posted by lynx@25 November 2003 - 05:51
BELONGING TO HIM

Does this make it dixons.com ?
I would think so lynx, but I'm over at the UK's Land Rover site. :huh:

That was the 5th model down in the UK list. :unsure:

[Riddler]

Originally posted by ang3968@25 November 2003 - 05:54
ok.. so follow that train....


NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO
IS THE LINK TO JAPAN AND THE JOURNEY FOR YOU

I can't find a link to Japan on the Lincoln site....

and who was the 2nd president??.... as it says 2nd in line before president two...........
I think that means the second word in line before Lincoln.

[lynx]

SECOND IN LINE

Could this refer to Vice-president?

Anyone know who was Lincoln's VP? or Fords?

[Honey]

John Adams was the second president...

Ford didnt have a vice president.. he was it!..

the speaker of the house would have been his next in line...

[Billy_Dean]

Maybe we should check that we are on the same sites.

This is my Ford site. (http://www.ford.com/en/default.htm)


:)

[ang3968]

thats what I have BD

[Riddler]

Me too. but the second logo in line before President two( Lincoln ) I figure is Volvo, but that doesn't lead anywhere. :huh:

[ang3968]

Originally posted by lynx@25 November 2003 - 22:58
SECOND IN LINE

Could this refer to Vice-president?

Anyone know who was Lincoln's VP? or Fords?
well the Vice-President to Lincoln was Hannibal Hamlin


but it don't sound like a car I'd want to drive around in... :blink:

[Billy_Dean]

I'm looking at the Japanese link, MAZDA, and President two, ADAMS, almost an anagram. Just a "Z" for an "S".




:)

[lynx]

I suspect that order of the logos may have been changed. The page has certainly been modified TODAY.

If you take the mazda option, but instead of following the link you type in www.mazda.com, you then get the option to go to mazda's uk website.

[Riddler]

Originally posted by lynx@25 November 2003 - 06:17
I suspect that order of the logos may have been changed. The page has certainly been modified TODAY.

If you take the mazda option, but instead of following the link you type in www.mazda.com, you then get the option to go to mazda's uk website.
Aha ! Thanks lynx.

[lynx]

I think we are getting back to the Nixon/Dixon issue, but at least it makes sense why we are getting there.

[ang3968]

yuppers...

model no:5 at the uk mazda site for me is the RX-8


edit I'm guessing we have to list the order of what we find/need
Ford..........START AT THE SITE WITH A PRESIDENT'S NAME
Mazda............NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO
RX-8............WHERE MODEL NUMBER FIVE IS THE ONE THAT YOU NEED
Nixon.............IS ALSO THE CENTRE OF PRESIDENT THREE
Dickson/dixon........THEN BELONGING TO HIM IS THE NEXT SITE TO COME

.................BUT AN AIRLESS DEVICE IS THE PRODUCT THAT MATTERS

[Billy_Dean]

If Nixon\Dixons was correct, the next site could be dixon.com or, looking at
THEN BELONGING TO HIM IS THE NEXT SITE TO COME could be dixons.com, as in Dixon's, belonging to.

Neither look promising.


:)

[bigboab]

This might help. It will be a reference, if nothing else.

The first six were presidents before the constitution, I think.

1781-2 Hanson
1783 Boudinot
1784 Mifflin
1785 Lee
1786 Gorman
1787 St Clair
1788 Griffin


1. George Washington : 1789-1797
2. John Adams : 1797-1801
3. Thomas Jefferson : 1801-1809
4. James Madison : 1809-1817
5. James Monroe : 1817-1825
6. John Quincy Adams : 1825-1829
7. Andrew Jackson : 1829-1837
8. Martin van Buren : 1837-1841
9. William Henry Harrison : 1841-1841
10. John Tyler : 1841-1845
11. James K. Polk : 1845-1849
12. Zachary Taylor : 1849-1850
13. Millard Fillmore : 1850-1853
14. Franklin Pierce : 1853-1857
15. James Buchanan : 1857-1861
16. Abraham Lincoln : 1861-1865
17. Andrew Johnson : 1865-1869
18. Ulysses S. Grant : 1869-1877
19. Rutherford B. Hayes : 1877-1881
20. James A. Garfield : 1881-1881
21. Chester A. Arthur : 1881-1885
22. Grover Cleveland : 1885-1889
23. Benjamin Harrison : 1889-1893
24. Grover Cleveland : 1893-1897
25. William McKinley : 1897-1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt : 1901-1909
27. William H. Taft : 1909-1913
28. Woodrow Wilson : 1913-1921
29. Warren G. Harding : 1921-1923
30. Calvin Coolidge : 1923-1929
31. Herbert C. Hoover : 1929-1933
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt : 1933-1945
33. Harry S. Truman : 1945-1953
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower: 1953-1961
35. John F. Kennedy : 1961-1963
36. Lyndon B. Johnson : 1963-1969
37. Richard M. Nixon : 1969-1974
38. Gerald Ford : 1974-1977
39. Jimmy Carter : 1977-1981
40. Ronald Reagan : 1981-1989
41. George Bush : 1989-1993
42. Bill Clinton : 1993-2001
43. George W. Bush : 2001-

At least we know the answers are in there somewhere. :lol:

[Riddler]

We either have to find a Dixon's company that deals with food products or backtrack and take another route. :huh:

[cowswithguns]

Didn't it say Model 5 not No. 5 at the UK link..and that the one that BD and I eluded to making it Nixon I think...and I think that the Dixon bit is correct...sounds logical to me.


There's a Dixon Food site

Dixon Food (http://illinois.zeezo.com/dixon/food-drinks.htm)

[ang3968]

SPICY FOOD IS FOUND ON THESE CORPORATE PLATTERS
BUT AN AIRLESS DEVICE IS THE PRODUCT THAT MATTERS

there are heaps of dixon sites if you do a google.... no idea what an airless device could be tho... I think we are still missing a vital link....

and it's probly staring us in the face... :rolleyes:

[lynx]

Model no 5 on the uk site is RX8 not MX5, but since the X is the common factor it doesn't really matter how you read it.

I'm still looking at Hoover as the airless device, also the name of FBI chief J. Edgar and President Herbert C. And the Hoover dam is near Boulder, Colorado.

I'm just wondering if we are picking up cookies (we are, I've checked) by visiting all these sites, and if so how they might later be used.

[Billy_Dean]

An anagram of Spicy foods is Poofy discs. Does that help?


:)

[bigboab]

Originally posted by Billy_Dean@25 November 2003 - 14:00
An anagram of Spicy foods is Poofy discs. Does that help?


:)
It could BD. It might lead us to Jackson. :lol:

[Riddler]

Originally posted by lynx@25 November 2003 - 07:00

I'm just wondering if we are picking up cookies (we are, I've checked) by visiting all these sites, and if so how they might later be used.
Sorry, I never thought about that. I delete all cookies & files every 20 minutes or so however. :unsure:

[lynx]

Originally posted by Riddler+25 November 2003 - 14:05--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Riddler @ 25 November 2003 - 14:05)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-lynx@25 November 2003 - 07:00

I&#39;m just wondering if we are picking up cookies (we are, I&#39;ve checked) by visiting all these sites, and if so how they might later be used.
Sorry, I never thought about that. I delete all cookies & files every 20 minutes or so however. :unsure: [/b][/quote]
I was actually thinking that we might need the cookies at the end, as a sort of verification that we&#39;ve been to all the correct sites.

Sort of like picking up proof of visiting on a real treasure hunt.

[Riddler]

Oh. I never thought of that either............. :huh: seems like a recurring theme for me. :D

[lynx]

I have the same problem with some of your riddles. :P

[Riddler]

Originally posted by lynx@25 November 2003 - 07:13
I have the same problem with some of your riddles. :P
Not hardly. :D

[ang3968]

well I can&#39;t help anymore... if I even have... :lol:
it&#39;s nearly midnite and the brain is closing down on this one.... so I&#39;m off for some light hearted fun ... or spam... :huh:

no doubt I will wake up in 4 hrs with the answer to the dixon problem...
want me to ring ya??? :D

[Riddler]

Yes please &#33; :lol:

[protak]

Are we definetely on track? The reason I&#39;m asking is, in 1969 Ted Kennedy was involved in a car accident at Chappaquiddick, which landed him in the lake, or river.

BY CAR THROUGH A RIVER HE NOMINALLY CAME
The key being nominally=Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names. Therefore we&#39;d be starting with Kennedy

NOW SECOND IN LINE BEFORE PRESIDENT TWO

IS THE LINK TO JAPAN AND THE JOURNEY FOR YOU
Who was it that took over when Kennedy was assasinated?
Did he make an historic trip to Japan?

I know shut the fuck up, we almost had it solved&#33;&#33; :D :lol:

[protak]

O.K. i did some searching, Lyndon Johson took over after Kennedy was assasinated, but I could&#39;nt find a link to Japan, but if you go to the Kennedy website Kennedy (http://www.kennedy.com) It&#39;s based in the U.K.
Maybe this will lead nowhere, it may come back to were you guy&#39;s are now , who know&#39;s, I&#39;m exploring both option&#39;s now, Thank&#39;s the fuck alot Ridd&#39;s :D :lol:

[Riddler]

:lol: Yer welcome.

[Riddler]

Has anybody got any further ? There&#39;s so many possibilities now, given what Tim came up with. I&#39;m thinking that some of these sites we&#39;re being led to have changed significantly since this Treasure Hunt thing was put together and we&#39;ll have to do some creative puzzle solving to fill in the missing pieces.
OR....................
One of us can try to build an original, up-to-date challenge from scratch for the gang to solve. :) Whaddya think ?

[Billy_Dean]

I tend to agree, sites change so much it can make it impossible to work out.

Go for it Ridds.


:)

[ang3968]

now that sounds exciting... our own treasure hunt....


I&#39;d be happy to help you Ridds if you decide to go with it.....

[Riddler]

Excellent &#33; Where should we start Ang ? PM me with your ideas if you like. :)

Oh, and my apologies to everyone who put so much brainpower into that last one. I should have investigated it on my own first. :unsure:

[Riddler]

Hi folks. Just a quick update on the Treasure Hunt.....Ang & I are working at a feverish pace ;) to construct a truly entertaining and challenging trek for y&#39;all. It&#39;s tough to get together on it with the difference in our time zones, but we shall perservere and it will be ready soon. :)

Ridds. B)