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Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse...

 
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darkvulcan
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:31 pm    Post subject: Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse... Reply with quote

If anyone has this CED title then you might be surprised by this information. FIrst, let me explain the title for those that have not seen it.

This CED title was a puzzle for the viewers to watch and figure out where a REAL golden horse was buried in the US. If you found it, you got the 24K horse and $500,000 dollars!
I remember getting this title in the early 90's and was surprised that the deadline to find the horse had not expired and would not expire until 1994. So, I watched and I watched and well....I had NO CLUE. The movie was pretty strange.
Come to find out that the horse was NEVER found and when the time expired the money was given to Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
Just thought that I would through this out there to anyone that had seen this CED title and wondered the outcome of the prize.
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cedmagic
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:17 pm    Post subject: RE: "Treasure" Solution Reply with quote

Legend has it that the backers of this project decided to bury the golden horse in a different location after the video was completed, essentially making the puzzle unsolvable. Apparently, so many people knew the original secret location that leaked information would have resulted in the horse being immediately found.

A while after the competition closed with no solution being released, two guys came along claiming they had solved the puzzle and found evidence of the horse's burial location. Many puzzle experts claim these two guys were set up by the backers of the project simply to prove the puzzle could be solved, as their logic requires enormous jumps of reasoning. I haven't tried to follow their logic myself, but it is covered in great detail on this page:

http://rec-puzzles.org/new/sol.pl/treasure/treasure

By the way, "Treasure" was a product of Dr. Crypton, the same company that was to release the interactive title "Dr. Crypton's Brain Busters." I haven't seen any evidence that title was ever released.

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