The Solutions

There is no such thing as a problem, only situations requiring a solution.
-Dietrich Whitmer

Hands Holding Unlock Padlock and Key on Wooden Table

These proposed solutions are not the product of beliefs, feelings, opinions, personal ideas, or subjective preferences, but rather a thorough investigation prioritizing analytical elements objectively applied for discerning a singular answer. In that same spirit, any intellectual challenge is invited. If disproving these proposals is your goal, then ask objective, analytical questions there are no reasonable responses to. I go where the evidence is, so if I am missing something, then inform me. If these proposed solutions are the product of a coincidence like thousands of other “solutions”, then you should have A LOT to talk about.

Disclaimer: This page is intended for educational purposes. Unauthorized digging or physical investigation of any suspected location without explicit consent is strictly discouraged and condemned.

Solution Characteristics

Verse and image information is applied as comprehensively as possible
Interpretations are accurate within a reasonable degree of conventional deviation
Puzzle devices serve a clear purpose beyond generic existence
All officially established rules are followed to the letter
Clue interpretations display a level of interconnectedness with other puzzle elements statistically impossible or unlikely to result from a mere coincidence
Treats the puzzle like a puzzle rather than a poorly written set of generic directions
The prevalence and quality of evidence is unrivaled in alternative proposals
Recognizes the dynamic of a subjectively crafted puzzle
Unexplainable gaps in communication are predominantly absent
Japanese clues are explained

Preemptive Responses to Predictable Declarations

Show me a casque!

That is what I’m trying to do.

These are just your opinions.

Do you know that for a fact?

Only a casque proves an answer.

If that’s true then you believe this puzzle was designed without a definitive intellectual answer, and the discovery of a 6in box in the ground is predicated upon a guess. Would a college educated, trained communicator really design his puzzles without a knowable pre-casque answer? Did Byron intend for continuous participant inquiries every time common things were mistaken for clues? Were Chicago and Cleveland just “good guesses”?

You just think you are better than everyone else!

By solving puzzles designed to be accessible to a general public? I am doing now what should have been done by countless others decades ago. I am better than no one. I exclusively apply what intellect I have to determining Byron’s answers rather than defending my own. I have no control over what the answers are, nor the reason(s) why countless others failed to find them.

This is nothing like the three confirmed cases.

The three confirmed cases are nothing like each other. These proposed solutions are more similar to the three known solves than most popular interpretations like Lake Park or Roanoke Island. But most available information points to the cases being different, not the same. The moment something is different, claims of uniformity are rendered invalid.

Wrong, I know what the answer is!

If you determined Byron’s one and only answer for particular case, then you should have no problem debunking these proposals by reverse engineering the same framework. Please explain in detail why any one of these answers fails to conform to Byron’s creation.

All of the image and city pairings have been “confirmed”.

An “I think” or “They seem” statement from a man (John Jude Palencar) who has stated repeatedly he just doesn’t know where the treasures are, does not qualify as a “confirmation” by the commonly accepted definition. The claims from an unknown person (Gift Giver) based on an undisclosed degree of information from more than four decades ago, that regularly conflict with other “confirmed” details, fail to qualify as a “confirmation”. Popular assumptions based on misappropriated evidence and misconceptions do not qualify as a “confirmation”.

Byron would never do that.

Byron is under no obligation to conform exclusively to your preferences and expectations when devising his puzzle. Within the confines of predetermined puzzle parameters and universal communication standards, Byron could do whatever he wanted, including defy your expectations of what he would or wouldn’t do.

Have you dug it up yet?

The puzzles are solved by utilizing your brain, not digging up a casque. Most of the casques are no longer available due to park renovations and construction projects over the past four decades plus. Due to excessive and unhinged interest, most municipalities refuse to even entertain the possibility of permitting physical investigations on city/county property. If we could ever figure out a way to collectively rally behind an individual answer, they just might change their minds. I will not and would not dig without expressed permission.

You’re thinking too hard, lol!

The brand of thinking commonly endorsed has directly resulted in decades of ambiguity and failure, predicated upon unsubstantiated clue assignments and assumption. If we have hundreds of wrong answers based on keeping things “simple”, all undifferentiated from themselves, then maybe this is indicative of not thinking hard enough. Subjective characterizations of perceived interpretive ease or difficulty offer no value. What carries exclusive importance is determining objectively through in puzzle evidence what Byron did or didn’t do.

You’re wasting your time. No one is interested in “new” ideas.

Most people aren’t interested in ideas that don’t belong to them or don’t exclusively comply with preconceived expectations and preferences. That’s the real concern, but I have no control over what interests people or what doesn’t. I don’t control the endless level of directionless speculation inhibiting real discoveries. I didn’t make the puzzle, I just choose to report the answers, for better or worse.

This is a stretch!!!

If we can just state things without any obligation to explain why a claim holds objective merit, then there is no such thing as a “stretch”. In my experience, generic declarations devoid of intellectual content are defense mechanisms applied against undesirable yet inescapable realities.

You just don’t understand how Byron thinks.

No one does, and no one needs to. Just think critically and look within the puzzles for communication from a trained communicator. While we should apply multiple perspectives for deducing the product of individual, subjective determination, anyone who assumes they can predict Byron’s behavior and choices without any objective evidence to indicate as such, is just lying to themselves.

I know exactly how the puzzles work. I’ve been doing this for 20 years.

Longevity and success or adequate investigative frameworks are not mutually exclusive conditions. How long were the Chicago boys involved in the hunt? They have found more casques than most decorated investigators. No offense intended, but right ideas don’t care how long you have been “involved”.

Well then I guess you just have some magical “Preiss Code” that tells you all of the answers.

Nonsense. These puzzles are not nearly as convoluted or ambiguous as people are making them. Discerning the true answers to Byron’s puzzles is the product of communication, common sense, deductive reasoning, and perceiving a series of unintentionally neglected, Sesame Street level connections involving numbers, shapes, colors, and rudimentary associations.

San Francisco

As correctly suspected for years, Golden Gate Park is a major contributor of puzzle devices with a grand finale few have accurately discerned. The conventional image and verse pairing is correct. Average sized streetlights and flag poles need not apply…