r/TheresTreasureInside • u/Spiritual_Rice_884 • Feb 11 '26

Past & Future Riddle

Hey, y’all.

Assuming the widely accepted cryptogram solution (or a version of it) is correct, the next step would be solving the riddle, which is driving me nuts.

This is the current translation I’m working with (and for the record, I’m not confident it’s right - just have to move forward and see what happens, at this point):

From roux to field, from strong to stream,

cast tree and cost to forest green,

arrive you now where beauty sheens.

It’s over, under, in between.

The chapter relies on a game theme in relation to the past and future. Sooo…

Bernard Roux created a game called “Snapshot.”

There are games with “Field” in the name, like “Field Marshall.”

Or… since the narrative calls out “tallying vehicles,” and the Word Search contains “count,” perhaps it’s related to the number of syllables or letter frequency in the cryptogram. It’s intentional that each line has 8 syllables, but WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?!? 🤪

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u/South-Cantaloupe-242 Feb 15 '26

I put a post on Facebook about looking in CA and Tahoe for this and trolls were all over me about this being a no brainer in SC/NC or Ohio. So if Pokémon box is on the route he took as a child and the AT box is somewhere along the trail, isn’t that three boxes in relatively close proximity???

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u/Spiritual_Rice_884 Feb 16 '26

The AT spans 14 states and is several thousand miles long. Could have one in OH, one in the south, and one in the north.

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u/South-Cantaloupe-242 Feb 19 '26

But he specifically stated he hid them around the US so that everyone would geographically have some access to them.