unforum

NiceLurk · Boot Joined: 19 Jul 2013 Posts: 65

[Trailhead] Coords across the United States

**Posted:** Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:08 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

Is anyone out there tracking which ones have been found? I wish I had known about this yesterday as I drove passed 8 of those locations.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:16 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

0 for 3 :(

**Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2013 5:16 pm

Cheza · Boot Joined: 21 Nov 2012 Posts: 10

Number 42 is pretty close to me, I'll hit it up after work.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:25 am

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

Nothing in Jacksonville

**Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:52 pm

NiceLurk · Boot Joined: 19 Jul 2013 Posts: 65

Hello

Unfortunately I can't find any information of people investigating the spots.
So there is no confirmation of a found playing card at all...

I'd absolutely like to check some of the spots by myself, but unfortunately I live in Europe Smile

**Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:13 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

Well I'll keep documenting my efforts and those of my friends here then. The latest update is the one in the "LA Public Library LA." Since there is no library listed specifically by that name we went for the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library first. The man at lost and found was most helpful but there was no sign of any playing card having been turned in. Tomorrow we will try some others.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 11:03 pm

Greystone · Unfettered Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 373

The last time about a year ago there was a similar type game.
In that game better clues were given, Like; on the west side of the bushes near the tree. An occasional photograph of the area was also given.

This one has a location very near to the one in the other game off of the same large parking lot. There is a lot of foot traffic in this area and the location is 40 miles from my home. I am not ready to jump in the car with such weak information to go by for something that may or may not be there hidden with all of the litter under a quarter mile of bushes. Like I said the parking lot is big and it has a lot of bushes. The possibility of looking in the wrong area is high. There are restaurants there and a lot of foot traffic where people look at you funny messing around the cars too long and looking in the bushes for more than 5 min is risky without the cops being called.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:19 am

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

These clues are very vague in a lot of cases and since no card has been found yet I'm not sure this is even for real. With that being said I did stop and get gas at Byron, GA again and went and checked the signs and area around where the homeless guy had been and there was no playing card.
I also had reports back from another 10 public libraries in Los Angeles and their lost-and-founds did not have any playing cards that had been turned in.
The final report today came back as negative for the location in Eastern Missouri.
It is looking less and less likely that this is going to go anywhere but I really liked the concept and was hopeful that it would.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:29 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

I'm running out of friends to call...

**Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:01 pm

HappyPhantom · Decorated Joined: 16 Jul 2011 Posts: 297 Location: TX

I can check out the Houston location after the weekend, and may be able to get someone to check out the Austin location for me.
I'll let y'all know...

**Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:38 am

Restlessmind

My wife and I went to the Houston location at the central library downtown. It was in the reference section of the library; I was about to lose it saying, "there's no way I'm checking all these books.". She pointed to a book on the history of books and said, "there's a book called, 'The Book' right there." Stroke of genius there, since the clue said to check the book, quite literally. We took it over to a table, flipped pages until we found a two page spread for illustration 201, and it had a face card taped to the page. I got photos and took the card.

So, I guess I am confirming that this hunt is legit.

I called the Austin location and the woman who answered said she didn't know anything about a playing card or a contest. It's a bar, so I suspect it's hard to find (or seen and tossed by a drunk patron). We're debating if we're going to bother to make the trip out there or not. It's a long way to go to come back empty-handed.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 19, 2013 11:45 pm

NiceLurk · Boot Joined: 19 Jul 2013 Posts: 65

Well,that sounds interesting. I was about to call the whole thing trolling too...

**Posted:** Sun Oct 20, 2013 1:48 am

HappyPhantom · Decorated Joined: 16 Jul 2011 Posts: 297 Location: TX

guess I'll not be needed then

**Posted:** Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:18 am

Restlessmind

Sure, I will this evening. They're on my phone so I need to move them over. I'll post the location photos and the back of the card so people can match them to the same set; I am assuming they are all from the same set. We got a high value card, so maybe we'll win by default?

The cards don't appear to be marked, which surprises me. I'm glad I took its picture in the book to authenticate the find to the PM/referee.

We decided against doing the Austin drop this weekend. Even Hey Cupcake! didn't convince her otherwise, but we have stuff to do before the work week. We may go next weekend if this is still going on then and no one had claimed it. If they have, maybe I can get her to go to Baton Rouge and Nawlins.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 20, 2013 2:03 pm