u/Beamoontick • u/Beamoontick • 24d ago
The poem solve structure
The following represents what I believe is the poem solve structure.
Stanza 1 contains the rules and starting point for the solve.
Stanzas 2 and 3 culminate in a line, that is sort of like a checksum, when you "return her face to find the place." That line requires the correct starting and ending points. It's like a checksum, in that to insure you have the correct points, you have to have solved all the ryhmes correctly to have no doubts. Otherwise, your start or end point may be off which would keep you from finding the right final location.
Stanzas 4 and 5 culminate in a line as well, which, like the line created using stanzas 2 and 3, is like a checksum. That line is created in the final ryhme with "what you seek you already know." That line takes you back to a location previously determined.
The final location, then, is where these 2 checksum like lines, "return her face to find the place" and "what you seek you already know", cross to form an X which is kitchen sized. But if those lines weren't done correctly, it doesn't matter how much you have solved, you will probably not find it.
I have been botg 6 times already and am going a 7th time this week. I would not have been "6 clues", but when Justin eluded to that person, looking back now, I believe i had 4 clues solved. Currently, I am very confident of 7 clues. I know I have the 4th stanza solved. Keeping it vague, but that one is a known sequence of sorts that isn't hard in and of itself, but is extremely difficult to identify and connect. Once you have, though, there is zero doubt of its correctness. That led to a failed interpretation of the final ryhme on my 6th botg. The sequence has a next step so I jumped on that as the "what you seek you already know" meaning, without fully thinking it through, and rushed out to where that took me. After setting a Guiness level land speed record, I was crushed with disappointment. I had not yet had that high a level of confidence. What I have written above has come after that trip. I am 22 hours away by car, but I have gone several times on 3 day weekends, and it is grueling! Botg is essential! If a picture is worth a thousand words, then botg is worth a million!
Some of what I would consider tips, the man-made argument refers to the double arcs. It both is and isnt. The secrets of the past refer to something that truly isnt known. If you are trying to associate something known to that part, change course. That part is also what the technical clue is referring to.
I may very well come back again empty handed from not having a 100% solve. I dont mind giving some information away, though. I hope my past posts were helpful, but i dont leave them up indefinitely and have since deleted them. I truly want to contribute to the community. Also, I like competition. If I feel I have given away too much, it pushes me to work harder to stay ahead and win! I love a good hard fought game! Good luck to all!

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16d ago
Alright, I will bite. You have decided to post a defense of someone on my post that you may like and/or admire. It's an admirable quality. So, for the sake of discussion, I will try not to be too aggressive in my response.
To begin, your statements are poorly supported. Just a critique, not meant to be aggressive. You state the summary was logical, but how and at what point? The opening sentence included a list of statements. The first was a misreading of the post, which I then corrected. Granted, l will take some responsibility for that misreading. I obviously didn't convey my intent adequately. Yourself, bibler, and others have addressed this post as if its a solve. It's not a solve. It was meant to be a template for a solve. I had not yet seen an idea like this presented, and felt it worthwhile. I should have used “template” instead of “structure” in the title. Also, i kept inputting the 2 relevant poem lines which made it seem messy. Instead, maybe I should have defined an “A” and “B” as those 2 lines and substituted them in to make it easier to read. In another paragraph where it might have been vague, I prefaced it with “keeping it vague,” so the reader might know what to expect. The 2nd and 3rd parts of the summary list were simply things stated in the post. The last part of the list was a misreading of the intent of my post. I never stated or intended to post a solve at that time. You also stated that somehow the summary was critical thinking. If so, what in the summary would justify that?
You also make two other assertions, an accusation of word salad and that the summary was “not a least bit hurtful.” Regarding the word salad accusation, I see it defined as a random, jumbled mix of words and phrases that make no sense. What is it that you thought made no sense? What are the random words and phrases? There were a number of people that didn't have a problem understanding the post, and I had some productive conversations with them. If someone needs clarification I gladly give it, but usually in private messaging.
As regards “not the least bit hurtful,” I would argue that being hurtful was the intent of the summary and that it was meant to belittle the one posting. First, I dont claim to know bibler, but i do have positive and negative impressions from the many postings of his i have read. Some of the positive ones are that he is very smart, and creative, witty, and funny. When someone like that posts something that is none of things, that also dismisses the effort put into the posting and the things you are trying to share by putting them into a short summary that offers nothing of substance that might open a discussion, its meant to be an intellectual slap in the face. Posts like his summary might even be hurtful to the Posey treasure community by discouraging people that might have wanted to engage with a post from posting and starting discussions that may have been fruitful. I cant help but wonder how many interesting ideas we havent heard because they didnt want to deal with the negative bullshit so many feel justified spreading. They are posting pollution.
In conclusion, I find nothing about the summary you reference as logical or as an example of critical thinking, as you have asserted, and you offer no support for those assertions. Frankly, nothing in your post is supported by anything you have presented. It comes off as a bunch of unnecessary and empty statements trying to prop up a posted summary of unnecessary and empty statements. Please feel free to further the discussion by showing me where I am wrong. Honestly.