Treasure Hunt Database (THDB)

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Microcosm

STATUS: SOLVED

Solved in 2022 long after hunt had ended.

Published in conjunction with computer magazines Creative Computing (U.S.) and Your Computer (U.K.), the book contains a short BASIC program in the back that players are asked to input into their own computer system. A newspaper entry from The Daily Echo (Nov 21, 1984) shows a user typing the program into his Commodore 16 computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6beZLo-BU http://adoxa.altervista.org/ucosm/index.html

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Envelope flap
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Solution

Location:
"Blundell Nils Plantation", Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom

Solver(s):
Alex Pavesi (later team The Microcosmonauts: Mike Haverstock, Father Terry Donahue, and others)

Line/Key Selection

Populate fields with one of the 16 solve themes:

Line/Key Results

Select lines and a key then submit to view your results here.

Custom Inputs

Populate fields with one of the 5 final key solves:

Custom Results

Input your own text and key to process, and the results will appear here.

In the actual hunt, the decrypted results from the page/line/key pairings were ordered by words in the poem and decoded by each of the 5 keys in order to get the final solution.