Weekly Treasure Recap 7/18/25
Quest Mission #3 Solution Inside
Weekly Treasure Hunt News:
The treasure hunting world continues to grow! Hunts with hidden treasures valued in the millions to find, meetups being planned, smaller hunts to enjoy a day out, and new hunts being released!
Let’s get to some of the highlights of the last week!
Meet & Greet Scheduled!
Exciting! The first of many with bigger things to come is officially scheduled! Treasure Hunt with Us (Ema & Jam) are hosting a Treasure Hunt Meet & Greet. Froggy of Este’s Quest – and Myself (MysteriousWritings) will be there as well!
We’d love for you to join us!
Where: Salt Face Mule Brewery, Asheville NC
When: August 30, 7:30 PM (Labor Day Weekend)
More details in coming weeks!
NEW HUNT! Golden Mantis
SkipWorkPlayGames is launching the Golden Mantis Treasure Hunt on August 22, 2025. Early bird special going on now ($25)!
Overview:
Released August 22 - by SkipWorkPlayGames
Clues within Digital Download - (available on hunt’s website)
BOTG required - a token is hidden somewhere in either Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, or Arkansas.
Treasure: $2,000 Cash Prize (may grow with participant level)
Join discussions on the MW Discord or Forum
Veil #3 Launched!
Veil Hunt #3 has launched! The Veil Proxy waits to be found - and if you can find it first a cash bounty over 3K - and growing - is coming your way! Check it out!
TreasureFix Hunts
Treasure or No Treasure - the elimination style hunt that started on May 18th ended with 8 winners splitting the $2000 cash prize! Congratulations to the winners.
Americana - a treasure hunt by TreasureFix remains unsolved. It has a $100,000 cash bounty to claim.
Masquerade Tribute 2025
Clue #3 was released for Old Jack Hare & Frog. This is one of two hunts which remain to be solved in the Masquerade Tribute. Treasure value for Old Jack Hare & Frog is closing in on $1000 (it is fully armchair). Join the adventures!
Beyond the Map’s Edge
On Wednesday, I shared a video with thoughts about the Netflix Clock Times. Justin changing the clock to 4:02 (42) not only connects to the 42 seen in the taillight of the truck but also Justin changing Idaho to Utah in the audiobook in the story The Concrete Kiss - since Latitude 42 is the border between those two states.
Also, on the MW Discord, user Thefatstig posted an image of the Alice in Wonderland Doorknob seen in the Netflix Documentary. Shown below. What does it suggest?
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice encounters Doorknob down the rabbit hole and he is the entrance to Wonderland. In the Forrest Fenn hunt, many searchers felt Yellowstone was connected to Wonderland. The reason because of the following brochure:
So is the doorknob a hint that Yellowstone NP is going down a rabbit hole in Justin’s Hunt? What do you think? Join discussions!
There’s Treasure Inside
None of the treasure boxes in There’s Treasure Inside have been announced found. A separate post will be sent out soon - featuring what’s been happening in this hunt! Treasure the adventures!
Quest Mission #3 Solution
Each month on the 15th, I release a treasure hunt puzzle using methods shared in Tuesday’s Deeper Dive puzzle segments for paid subscribers. These Missions offer a way to become better at recognizing and solving clues in present day treasure hunts!
Congrats to Ben F! who solved July’s Quest and will receive the Bounty! Below is the solution to Quest Mission #3:
In a previous Tuesday Deeper Dive, I covered how a mix of 11-characters may reveal a Video Id string for YouTube. It would attach to the end of the following: Youtube.com/watch?v=
The 11 characters at the top of the note - when attached - led to the MW Video - Top 10 Mysterious, Puzzle, or Out of the Ordinary Books (2023).
Next were timestamps. Within each timestamp was text. In the clue the first letters matched to a line in that text. The X in brackets indicated to take that word.
For instance, at 5:35 - 5 minute 35 second mark - of the video - was seen the line of text:
“into a tropical rainforest. The green canopy of”
The first letters: iatrt[x]co matched that line. The [X] indicated ‘use that word’. GREEN was the first word.
Applying this method to the rest of the video revealed the correct solution:
GREEN HOUSE ON LEFT - 2 MILE FROM LAKE
Congrats again to ‘QUEST AGENT - BEN F.’!!!
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~ Jenny / Mysterious Writings - X marks the place to find treasures!
