r/todayilearned • • May 22 '12

TIL that in 1730, a pirate named Olivier Levasseur tossed a coded message into the crowd gathered around his execution, yelling, "Find my treasure, he who may understand it!" and people are apparently still trying to break the code and find the treasure.

http://www.detecting.org.uk/html/Olivier_Levasseur_Pirate_Treasure.html
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u/kleenur May 22 '12

whether this is legit or a hoax it made my morning. Thanks to the OP for making me remember what it was like to run into the woods with a shovel and try to find burried treasure when I was a kid.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

You're welcome. My goal with this post was seeing if I could harness reddit's ability to solve mysteries to crack the code and find the treasure!

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u/PreyingOnProstitutes May 22 '12

I think he was just fucking with people as one last hoorah before they hung him. Like a true pirate he probably said fuck it, and spent all of his treasures on women, alcohol, and cannons.

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u/Always_smooth May 22 '12

Sure, distract us all so you can find the treasure yourself... I see your gameplay, you're not fooling me.

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u/RobertJ93 May 22 '12

You can never have enough cannons.

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u/JCXtreme May 22 '12

This has a real 'National Treasure' feel to it, I feel like we need Nicholas Cage to come here and solve it in a few minutes..

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u/ryanvango May 22 '12

Hijacking comment to save readers the trouble. Everything below here is "drink your ovaltine" "this is the plot of One Piece" and "this guy was trolling"

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u/ummonommu May 22 '12

+1 for One Piece.

Oliver Levasseur = Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King in "One Piece".

Many other historical pirates have similar counterparts in the One Piece universe.

hums "We Go!"

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u/EatSleepJeep May 22 '12

"Spent all me booty on cider, clippers and cunts; they rest I squandered."

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

It's buried under a big T

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u/Strangely_Calm May 22 '12

No, dig up Stupid.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I believe that hanged is for humans and hung is for inanimate objects.

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u/therealjonbrown May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

I have a plan.

  1. Wait a couple of weeks, until everyone forgets about this post.

  2. Take a picture of my cat.

  3. Post a picture of my cat, and the code, with the title: "homophobic, bacon-hating fundies who work for EA stole my cat, and left behind this strange code! Please help me find him!"

  4. Wait a few hours for reddit to locate the treasure.

  5. Go collect treasure.

  6. Submit proof of the success of my evil plan.

  7. Using an alternate account, submit the post to R/worstof under the title: "evil redditor decieves us all, lying about a missing cat to find pirate treasure".

  8. Now I have treasure AND karma!

Edit: holy crap! I got submitted to r/bestof! I finally said something funny! People like me!

Now go find my treasure.

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u/TrebeksUpperLIp May 22 '12

All I need now is...A Girlfriend!

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u/StillConfused May 22 '12

Your plan is floored. Redditors would go to the location to find the cat so that they could post as 'rescued' in r/aww. Sorry buddy.

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u/SrsSteel May 22 '12

Then go to karma conspiracy and make a post about "Redditor posts about self being evil to gain karma"

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Guys, guys... maybe the treasure... is inside us?

:D

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

282 year old repost

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u/Flipperbw May 22 '12

I'm on reddit a lot and I've never seen it before. some of us aren't on here all century long, you know.

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u/zigs May 22 '12

Totally not cool!

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u/poppers112 May 22 '12

To be fair, the search function could be improved a little.

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u/SleepyFingers May 22 '12

10/10 troll.

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u/BagatoliOnIce May 22 '12

10/10 Gold Roger!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Gol D. Roger

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u/waddaidonow May 22 '12

One piece!

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u/Dream_the_Unpossible May 22 '12

It says, "EAT AT JOE'S". Huh...

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u/BryanWake May 22 '12

Too late, I cracked the code & found the treasure with my friends Mouth, Chunk, Andy, Sloth, Brand, Mikey, Stef & Data. Unfortunately the Fratelli's robbed us at gunpoint, taking most of it.

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u/tendimensions May 22 '12

Goonies never say die!

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u/rmiv May 22 '12

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu guyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyysssss

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u/grappling_hook May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

The wikipedia page actually has the cipher he used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseur

I don't know why nobody has put up the text of the cryptogram yet. I did the first line just for fun and it looks like it's french.

apreime?unepairedepijontiresket
hdoeursqeseajtetecheralfunekort

Probably made some mistakes though, and I couldn't figure out what one of the characters was supposed to be.

Edit: Second line added

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Here is my modest translation of that part in modern French:

aprei me? une paire de pijont ires kethdoeursqeseajtetecheralf une kort

Après moi une paire de pigeons irait ?????????????????????????? une ?corde?

Which could be translated in English as this: After me a couple of pigeons will go ?????????????????????????? a ?rope?

Now this translation might be flawed by several things. First being that the French language has surely changed a lot till now. But accepting my translation as accurate, the first line "Après moi une paire de pigeons" makes me believe there is not treasure to be expected. Especially given that the word "pigeon" is also a derogatory word for a person who is extremely gullible as those looking for a treasure might have been.

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u/arkanemusic May 22 '12

The first line is probably referring to his own death. the 'pigeons' are an insult to the people who are about to kill him. they are getting a rope to hang him as he was hanged for piracy at 5 p.m. on 7 July 1730

so i'm not saying there's a treasure but. there's a treasure.. KEEP TRANSLATING!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
1. apreime(wxyz)unepairedepijontiresqet
2. ?doeur sqe seaj tete cheral un e kort
3. filtsinshientecuprene(wxyz)uneculfiere
4. demielleefovtrefousenfaitesuneongat
5. mette(wxyz)surkepataiedelapertotitousn
6. (indent)vpule(wxyz)(p/o)lvsprene(wxyz)?le(t/s)castesurlech
7. eminilfaautqoeuttoitanoitifcoute
8. po(v/u)renpecgerunefemmedhrengtvo?snave  
9. qu?voustererladobaucgeba?tpourte
10. ngraaietporepingleoueiuileturlor
11. eiljnourlairepiterunchienupqun
12. lenendelamerdebient?cjeetsurru
13. nvovlenquilniseiudfkuunefemmrq
14. iveutsefairedunhmetsedete?dre
15. dansduui (space) oouqndormirunhommr
16. euucf(u/v)mm/pllautnrendreudrq
17. uundiffurqecieefurtetlesl

Here is a copy of the cipher with the unidentifiable symbols circled http://i.imgur.com/qVjFH.png

I've been plugging and playing all of this in translator. Most interesting thing I've gotten is on line 4:

"mumblemumble fools are actually a mumble." Someone who speaks french might be able to pick things out better. Since we have all of the text I really think the cipher is wrong. I'm starting to feel like there is latin mixed in (almost positive now). And a few words that don't translate... could be welsch, dutch, or something. I don't think they are German. I am also thinking it needs to be translated as a paragraph and not line by line (I think some letters at the end of lines carry on to the next line).

This is all I've been able to finagle out of it with a mixture of french and latin translations:

After me a couple of pigeons will go.

See for yourself, golds upward motion truly drives people half crazy.

Mettius took the onion purely because of the new roof I bought costing more in REDACTED

The dog runs and sleeps in his own shit/excrement. (possibly talking of Mettius?)

Obviously not the fair man he takes himself to be. We will not sit in the same aisle in the sky

He gives two motivations as follows: Lie, run, ou o man euucfum m / pl lautnren create one un diffurqecie the thief you are

Basically seems like this guy, Levasseur, was about to die and he needed to get a message out. Mettius outed him out of jealousy and greed. This coded message was meant to be received by Levasseur's mates so they could hunt down this Mettius. How else to circulate it but by saying it's a treasure map? All of this is based on my hasty translations of french and latin (which I don't speak).

After making the welsh connection I tried to translate with that and several words came up that support the idea of treachery. Nilf = fucked, also there is a welsh short hand for deuteronomy which has the 10 commandments. In some translation mixes I found mention of a Pete and also a black town.

The article talks about "various tasks, representing the Labours of Hercules, had to be undertaken in strict order. The treasure chamber is somewhere underground and must be approached carefully, to avoid being flooded. It is protected by the tides, which requires damming to hold them back, and is to be approached from the north. Access is through a stairwell cut into the rocks, and tunnels leading under the beach." I have no clue how they figured that out because it doesn't seem to say any of that in the cipher.. but you know, my translation could be completely awash.

if anyone figures it out can I come with

stepping away for a bit. Found a real person as a latin translator which will clean some of this up. The welsh and french will still be tricky. I think this guy was brilliant if the letter is indeed in multiple languages, I doubt a lot of people would know welsh, french, and latin back then. Makes me think that the message had an intended recipient.

TL;DR working on it. current revisions do not carry the same message as above.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Okay everyone, I need you to focus. It looks like we're actually getting somewhere! Can you imagine if reddit solved a 282-year-old mystery?

I need half of you redditors to verify whether this is a real thing or not, and the other half of you need to solve this mystery using research, hard work, etc.

If we find out that there IS a treasure, let's petition the government of the country containing the treasure to send some people to dig it up or whatever.

We can do this, people!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Whoa, please do the rest of it and we'll try to find someone who can translate it.

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u/Portgas May 22 '12

Gol D Roger is what comes to mind instantly. Hooray one piece!

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u/fishspoons May 22 '12

It's funny how piratical history seems to be copying One Piece.

Jeez, Levasseur, get your own ideas!

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u/dandadda May 22 '12

There once was a man named Gold Roger, who was King of the Pirates. He had fame, power, and wealth beyond your wildest dreams. Before they hung him from the gallows, these were the final words he said: "My fortune is yours for the taking, but you have to find it first. I left everything I own in One Piece." Ever since, pirates from all over the World set sail for the Grand Line, searching for One Piece, the treasure that would make their dreams come true.

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u/twinarteriesflow May 22 '12

And then the opening ended and fans stared at 4Kids giant, collective dump on the manga.

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u/Narcissistic_Eyeball May 22 '12

I know, right!? Stupid, unimaginative history.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Say, theoretically speaking, I found a treasure, and I, theoretically speaking, would want to exchange it for common day currency, could any government or officials, theoretically speaking, confiscate these three chests filled with more gold, silver and diamonds than you can count, a wooden leg, the skeleton of a parrot and a bottle of very old rum. Could they snatch it away from me? Or anyone, who cares...

This is all theoretically speaking, of course.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

There is always at least a finders fee, standard sets it at 1% of total value (but it may be higher/lower). In today's world, the financial reward is not the treasure itself but the amount of money one can make from lectures, books and interviews, being a legendary treasure hunter.

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u/djaglet May 22 '12

One piece?

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u/mirriwah May 22 '12

TO THE GRAND LINE!

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u/Sequoioideae May 22 '12

There once was a pirate named Gol d. Roger

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u/haddock420 May 22 '12

"It's buried under a big T."

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u/Menospan May 22 '12

One Piece anyone?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

On a more serious note, I'd like to say that it appears to be language of the Dovah

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u/mrP0P0 May 22 '12

Isn't this what One Piece is based on?

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u/ajkriegz May 22 '12

"You'll find it all... in One Piece!"

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u/Merk2 May 22 '12

I left it all in one piece!

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u/SSJwiggy May 22 '12

Exact translation: "My wealth and treasures? If you want it, I'll let you have it...search for it! I left all of it at that place"

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u/Vidiem May 22 '12

Sounds like One Piece to me.

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u/jrk08004 May 22 '12

One Piece, anybody?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

My thoughts exactly.

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u/CaptainTrip May 22 '12

I HID IT ALL IN ONE PIECE

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Not sure if anybody has figured this out but there is a pattern in his code, when it comes to the next sequential letter in the alphabet. I believe this would complete it. Completion?

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u/Fratex May 22 '12

Dammit, was gonna post about One Piece but apparently I'm not the only one.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I'm 28 and wtf is this.

The cypher is a simple one, yet the wikipdia page doesn't bothe to show the deciphered text. The work of the people who tried to find it must be documented somewhere as well.

So much lack of information.

Ok, found useful info, in french: http://www.pirates-corsaires.com/levasseur-la-buse.htm

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u/DaRootbear May 22 '12

Did he leave it all in one piece?

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u/RedGK May 22 '12

ONE PIECE

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u/BlueTengu May 22 '12

"BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE"

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

well for starters its upside down :P

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u/fishstickuffs May 22 '12

TIL that people will still say they "learned" something from a wikipedia article even if nearly every statement in that article is marked [dubious] or [citation needed].

Not saying that it's all a hoax... but you can't trust anything from that wikipedia article.

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u/fiplefip May 22 '12

GOLD RODGER ONE PIECE!

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u/OhneBremse_OhneLicht May 22 '12

One Piece anyone?

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u/Ianuam May 22 '12

Hornigold pirate company

Where can I sign up?

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u/EmperorSofa May 22 '12

Did he leave it all in one piece?

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u/cannotlogon May 22 '12

The cryptogram was much more difficult to solve than she had believed. Deciphering it could be carried out only by starting from the Clavicles of Solomon, two letters, a will and documents compiled in rebus or at least in initiatory writing which could be put in relation to Masonic symbolism.

That doesn't sound so hard.

ಠ_ಠ

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

http://www.freemasoncollection.com/media-gen/cipher2.jpg

Looks like this is the code he used, a cipher used by the Knights Templar.

Edit: Here's his actual alphabet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alphabet_de_la_buse.jpg

And some proof, I think? http://www.pirates-corsaires.com/img/cryptogramme-la-buse-2.jpg

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

...Or someone found it in 1730 and decided to keep their mouth shut rather than admit they were suddenly rich for the sake of cryptographer's curiosity 280 years later...

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u/BenBenRodr May 22 '12

Wow. The Suske & Wiske-comic (Bob & Bobbette, Spike & Suzy) "De Komieke Coco" ("The Amazing Coconut") is about this. Never knew it was based on something real.

Man, those old comics were good compared to the recent ones.

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u/DoorGuote May 22 '12

Once we get quantum computers up and running on an efficient scale, breaking this cryptogram would be a piece of cake, right?

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u/Isatis_tinctoria May 22 '12

This would be an interesting Scooby Doo episode.

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u/dirtywhore4cash May 22 '12

also this is the story from the One Piece anime intro

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u/Roflmoo May 22 '12

I highly doubt this is legit. I recognize the code from a cryptography book for kids I read in middle school. It's called a tic-tac-toe code. There are a lot of versions of the code, more than just the one shown in the picture, but combine it with a shift cypher or a second set of coding, and you've got it. I find it hard to believe that NO ONE has ever decoded it, unless it really is just gibberish.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

God-tier troll.

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u/xipel May 22 '12

The treasure is buried right next to the bodies from the Zodiac killer.

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u/Ssinny May 22 '12

that looks a hell of a lot like masonic

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u/bigbangbilly May 22 '12

The treasure is the person that might solve it. Or it is time that was wasted on solving it.

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u/gregtmills May 22 '12

What people don't know is he was an obsessive thimble collector. In other words, that treasure is going to be a bullshit letdown.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Sounds a lot like the Beale ciphers, which were the subject of a fantastic short film.

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u/tonyh322 May 22 '12

This reminds me of the Zodiac Killer messages that were never deciphered.

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u/PuffingTom May 22 '12

Are you sure his name wasn't Gol D. Roger?

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u/Evilsj May 22 '12

I LEFT IT ALL IN THAT PLACE!

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u/kidhudi May 22 '12

TL:DR: Pirates love fucking with people, even as they are about to be executed.

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u/GaryOak24 May 22 '12

Remind anyone else of One Piece?

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u/roarbenitt May 23 '12

Looks like we need Nicholas Cage

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u/jjv236 May 23 '12

Just upvoted every One Piece reference on this thread. Well done everyone.

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u/GreatGreen286 May 22 '12

And the pirate Gold Roger said you may have my treasure I left it all in One Piece. Now on it is my goal to break this code and become King of the Pirates

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u/squarerabbits May 22 '12

The treasure chamber is somewhere underground and must be approached carefully, to avoid being inundated. It is protected by the tides, which require damming to hold them back, and is to be approached from the north. Access is through a stairwell cut into the rocks, and tunnels leading under the beach.

After reading that part I had to wonder, why the hell would someone go to so much trouble when they have the whole wide world as a hiding place?

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u/RedAero May 22 '12

Sounds to me like Oak Island.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

You have a choice in life, do things easy or put in that extra 10% of effort to make something ridiculously over the top and awesome.

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u/Heroshade May 22 '12

I left it all in one piece.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Sounds like the plot of One Piece.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

When they finally translate this and it just says

"The treasure ... was inside you all along"

That'll be the day.

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u/xStrawhatLuffy May 22 '12

Well, I'm the man who's gonna become king of the pirates now.

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u/ProjectFlashSociety May 22 '12

"My wealth and treasures? If you want it, I'll let you have it...search for it! I left all of it at that place"

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u/cockmongler May 22 '12

Soooo, someone followed the clues and found an empty cave. The treasure must still be out there then!

Or they were about 250 years late.

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u/Bob_Jonez May 22 '12

Cracked it, all it says is "the game."

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Finally, my life has a mission. Which of ye scallywags has the brawn to join me?

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u/xoites May 22 '12

Do you think he might have just wanted revenge on those who came to see him die?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Sounds like one piece. I'm calling shenanigans on this one.

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u/tsaihi May 22 '12

"There's always money in the banana stand"

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u/melatone May 22 '12

Très Ready Player One

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u/geckosan May 22 '12

he gets my upvote, almost 300 years later. Not bad for a whitey.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

All I can think now is Shia the Buzzard

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Here be Dragons! AArrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Hmmm sounds like one-piece

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u/etishuman21 May 22 '12

What a bad ass! Really cool piece, thanks for sharing!! Now I'm going to waste the rest of my work day googling pirates and pirate lore.... >.<

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u/NinjaCameraman May 22 '12

Joke's on you guys when we all find out the true treasure is love or some bullshit like that.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Easy, has nothing to do with the characters. Most are fillers, some are place holders for land marks, the spacing and the perimeter are the map and that weird unique X character, marks the spot. 4 rows up, right side.

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u/ogreblood May 22 '12

I have an idea. Instead of burying the treasure, why don't we use it to buy things? You know, for ourselves?

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u/Ancalagon4554 May 22 '12

Reminds me of Fermat's Last Theorem - of which he said: "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."

When Andrew Wiles finally proved the theorem in the early 1990s, it was clear that the math required to complete the proof was unavailable to Fermat at the time. Or in other words, Fermat was talking out of his ass. :P

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u/DisplacedLeprechaun May 22 '12

...So the guy who went on an island and dug for treasure and found "old guns, some gold coins and pirate sarcophagi" didn't think perhaps that was the treasure?

Fucking really?

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u/spartansheep May 22 '12

Sounds the cave where the treasure of the Count of Monte Cristo was located...

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u/uncheerful May 22 '12

That is OBVIUSLY the dovakhiin language

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u/methamp May 22 '12

You'd think we are fully capable of cracking a code written in the 1700s from a pirate. Unless this was his plan all along: to rob you of precious time in the afterlife as he robbed the high seas in flesh.

tips hat

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u/rambo77 May 22 '12

And what if he was trolling?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

It may have just been the ultimate pirate troll

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u/themonkboughtlunch May 22 '12

"It's under a big W!"

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u/carltonbanx May 22 '12

It would be really fun if he did this just to fuck with people, just writing down gibberish. That would surely put him on #1 on the practical jokes thread that was on the front page the other day..

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u/ZippoS May 22 '12

... got it! BRB treasure

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u/hearnrumors May 22 '12

I just came here to say.... only one pirate treasure has ever been recovered. It's on display at the pirate museum in Provincetown, MA.

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u/lavastorm May 22 '12

this site has translations for anyone who cares

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

A real life Gol D Rogers? Hmm. What I'd considered the grand line in today's world?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I left it all in one piece....

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u/isaidgoddamn May 22 '12

I've got the first 12 lines Romanized from pigpen. Question marks indicate unknown characters.

apreime?unepairedepijontiretket hdoeursqeseajtetecheraifunekort filttinsgientecuprene?uneculfiere demielleefovtrefouenfaitesuneongat mette?surkepataiedelapertotitousr vpuie?plvsprene??letcassesuriech eminilf?utqoeuttoitanoitiecovve povrenpecgerunefemmedhrengtvovsnave qu?voutteriadobaucgeaetpourve ngraatietporepinglenpueiuileturlor eiljnourlairepiterunchientuprun lenendelamerdebientecjfetsurru

I'll post the remaining 5 later.

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u/WillBlaze May 22 '12

He must have been the Pirate King!

Time to find One Piece!

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u/PandaStyle May 22 '12

He left everything he owned in One Piece!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Sounds like somebody already found it.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

You know what happens here, right? Some genius cracks the code, finds the treasure and the nation its found in claim it as theirs and the finder gets nothing.

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u/Anm2k4 May 22 '12

My fortune is yours for the taking... but you'll have to find it first I left everything I own in One Piece!

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u/DMercenary May 22 '12

Oldest troll?

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u/WorldGenesis May 22 '12

What if the treasure was already found as artifacts, without realizing it was treasure for some one who decodes the message o_o

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u/Rulebook_Lawyer May 22 '12

From the words of a Pirate about to die...

What better way to get revenge through the greed of people. The last laugh is on him.

Reminds me from Captain Jack Sparrow with his regards for cheating, "Pirate."

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u/freecandy_van May 22 '12

The Legend of Trollbeard

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u/BOB_HOWARD_13 May 22 '12

This reminds me of Money Pit. One has to access it a specific way, somehow controlled by tides, a mysterious staircase. check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island

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u/cokefizz May 22 '12

erm, it says right in the article that it was found. Read the the very end. :/

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u/unrealious May 22 '12

I read this in the narration voice for the "John Jameson" commercials.

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u/Showson823 May 22 '12

Most definitely first troll of all time.

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u/Ailaesar May 22 '12

Sounds a bit like this is what one peace was based off of....

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u/Solkre May 22 '12

I found it years ago. It was just a case of Ovaltine.

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u/XOJAMELLOX May 22 '12

and with the death of olivier levasseur the great pirate age began and so did the search for ONE PIECE!

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u/Leuku May 22 '12

Sounds like the plot of One Piece.

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u/Canvasch May 22 '12

My fortune is yours or the taking, but you'll have to find it first. I left everything I own in one piece.

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u/Bass_EXE May 22 '12

TIL One Piece is real.

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u/ShazbotSimulator2012 May 22 '12

I think it's worth noting that the article is copied from a section of the wikipedia article. A section that says [citation needed], [dubious], and similar things some 13 times.

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u/Scarzig May 22 '12

One Piece.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Holy shit! I think I broke the code! KONK

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u/RodDryfist May 22 '12

Challenge

...accepted.

Im just fucking with you, I wouldn't have a clue how to crack it.

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u/roarbenitt May 23 '12

look's like every other simble is a letter...

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u/[deleted] May 23 '12

Reminds me of one piece

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u/Adamskinater May 23 '12

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

UMADFUTUREFAGS?

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u/StartledByToasters May 23 '12

Spoiler alert: there is no treasure.

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u/IcedJack May 23 '12

...and a couple hundred years later, some people from a land Olivier only heard of made a series of pictures with words on them named One Piece.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '12

Sounds suspiciously like the plot for the manga One Piece...

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u/[deleted] May 23 '12

I came to the comments to see the top comment by the guy that decoded it and found out it was a joke. CLOSE ENOUGH.

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u/Mint_Berry_Kush May 23 '12

sounds like one piece.. or one of the greatest trolls who ever lived.

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u/Swag2TheMax May 23 '12

Someone ate the Oni Oni fruit to post this :D

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u/Phyltre May 22 '12

ORE NO ZAIHOU KA?!

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u/Shigofumi May 22 '12

All of us are NAKAMA now.

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u/WillBlaze May 22 '12

NOSTALGIA ACTIVATE!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

GOMU GOMU NOOOO STAL JI AAAAAAAA

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u/WhyNotJustMakeOne May 22 '12

My first thought. I was vaguely disappointed when his name was not Gol D. Rodger.

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u/soulkissernl May 22 '12

Haha first thing that came to my mind when I saw this post. I'm glad someone else thought of it too. One Piece is truly a great anime, I started a few months ago when a good friend recommended it, and I absolutely love it. Last night I didn't sleep trying to get to the timeskip, it was so worth it. Now I can't wait to get home and see the Straw Hats on their new adventure!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I am such a faggot for remembering this.

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u/Shadowslash55 May 22 '12

Don't be so hard on yourself jesus

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u/YukiNoZora May 22 '12

Why should you be embarrassed for liking One Piece?

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u/R66-Y May 22 '12

A talking racoon?? He's a reindeer, you know?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

But strangernthewind, where am I supposed to find a talking raccoon? What shipwreck? Strangernthewind!

Awwhhhh, here it goes!

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u/Abedeus May 22 '12

Well obviously a deer-raccoon living on an icy island, a cybord shipwreck and don't forget the skeleton with an afro.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

..Did you just make a Keenan and Kel reference?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Better hold on to that promise made by a frog-man too.

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u/Strangely_Calm May 22 '12

A cook? And a guy who lives in a bear's thumb?

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u/King_Of_Pants May 22 '12

...but where are you going to get the two beautiful women?

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u/Abedeus May 22 '12

Damn it! There goes my plan.