Where's the Gold?
Mystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
Bob Senior, had recently died. His will plainly expressed that his 5 million dollars worth of gold was to go to Bob Junior, but it seemed that Bob Senior (we'll call him Bob from now on and Bob Junior, Bobby) had hidden his gold and had given him a riddle within the will. Bobby pondered for a long while before figuring out where the gold was. Can you figure it out? Here is the will:
Great son, I have hidden the money.
Outstanding though you are, can you find my precious jewelry?
Let yourself explore your 120 arboresque friends to find the gold.
Do read on to save your time, son.
Uncovering 120 trees, though, takes forever and a day, so is it worth it?
No, so read on as you please & will.
Do not hire a professional detective.
Earn your right to the sybaritic gold.
Right side of arbor field it is.
Plot five plus six plus root of 7 or:
Instead take the 9th tree from left.
At noon the shadow will show you the difficult, unlikely solution.
Never forget the proverb: the pot will not boil by itself.
Outstanding you are, only by finding the gold do you, my son, have the right to claim it.
HintThe fourth from the bottom line contradicts the whole teaser, or does it? The will has two riddles, or is it three or four? Should you really trust what is said in the will?
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Answer
The gold was hidden under the piano. The first letters of the sentences spell: GOLDUNDERPIANO. Put spaces in to get "Gold Under Piano"! The actual text in the will is only to confuse you.
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Comments
cgold03
Mar 17, 2007
| wat a cool teaser.... REALLY makes u stretch ur mind to unmatched prorportions....... keep these up! i like em! |
vlerma   
Mar 17, 2007
| I too liked this one. I read and reread and then looked at the whole thing and like they say, If it had been a snake it would have bitten me. I saw the answer. Good job!  |
j9mattfield   
Mar 19, 2007
| VERY difficult. I worked so hard, and ther it just was. Well done.  |
scallio   
Mar 21, 2007
| I was reading every other line, removing words and letters, working math, wondering how to make a pot boil!! Ha ha ha...
The answer was so simple!
Cool teaser!  |
(user deleted)
Mar 21, 2007
| oooooooooooooooooo
what a easy but difficult question!
GREAT!  |
cyberstar5150   
Mar 21, 2007
| First thing I did while reading the will was check the first letter of each sentence...  |
dasione1  
Mar 21, 2007
| wow i wouldve lost my inheritance ......but great teaser anyway. |
(user deleted)
Mar 23, 2007
| Great teaser!!
Overlooked the outside
Obvious but tricky
Do another like this!!
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deadsnakebiting  
Mar 25, 2007
| I'm broke myself! There it was - right in plain sight the whole time! Great! |
hersheyugget   
Mar 27, 2007
| simple tommy, make them harder like ur first few teasers |
jamesbond   
Apr 02, 2007
| gud 1...luvd it...  |
BrainsGalore
Apr 04, 2007
| First time I have answered one without really reading the whole thing...... noticed the answer within ..mm.. a minute. Enjoyed it though~ makes me think I might be a little "smart" ... Give us more~ |
FatHead   
Apr 05, 2007
| I immediately got suspicious when I saw the odd initials of the lines. |
chaskey   
Apr 10, 2007
| I thought I had learned the lesson, "First things first," but I guess not.  |
chaskey   
Apr 10, 2007
| I thought I had learned the lesson, "First things first," but I guess not.  |
chaskey   
Apr 10, 2007
| Sorry!  |
mixed_masteress  
Apr 23, 2007
| Hahaha! Loved it. I felt so dumb for not noticeing that! That should like be the first thing I should've checked! |
nerdyiscool   
May 11, 2007
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oneheartbroken   
May 13, 2007
| that was pretty easy
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ringpop_rara  
Jun 20, 2007
| i........i...........didn't get it  |
ringpop_rara  
Jun 20, 2007
| kidding AWESOME!!!!! |
princess2007  
Jun 21, 2007
| wow! bob senior must have really had faith in his son's intelligence! |
trickyone   
Jul 11, 2007
| Good one, pretty fun but quite easy  |
preppygirl 
Jul 17, 2007
| um...i missed it.  |
RoyerSkater1015   
Aug 16, 2007
| wow , even the hint I didn't understand, but Wat challenge! |
luckypuppy   
Aug 27, 2007
| I'm blind  |
auntiesis    
Aug 27, 2007
| Easy as pie and just as tasty. I surprised myself by finding it so easily. Loved it ! |
MzPink85 
Nov 13, 2007
| haha... completely missed that one!! |
friesaregood   
Nov 15, 2007
| Awesome, best teaser I've read today! I got it halfway into the will. At first, I thought Bob was a bit loopy, but anyways. LOved it! |
CatsAreCute  
Dec 20, 2007
| Here I was, trying to do mathematical equations, and it was that simple!! I didn't even notice that it said that!!  |
Swirvia
Feb 04, 2008
| lol. the only thing that made me look there was the classic line from national treasure one:
wats his name, bad guy leader - "gentelmen, y is this word capitalized?"
goon - "because its important?" |
Swirvia
Feb 04, 2008
| now im gonna actually read the will. |
Swirvia
Feb 04, 2008
| lol. the hints probably threw SO many ppl off. |
stephiesd  
Feb 24, 2008
| By the time I got to the 6th line, and noticed the odd cadence of the lines, I figured it must have something to do with the actual order of the lines, not what they said. So I looked at the first letters, expecting to need to read them backwards or something, but the answer was right there, from the top down...
Hm. Little too easy, but super fun anyway. |
lilliandulcia  
Apr 03, 2008
| Really easy for me, I got it before I started reading the note just because I thought the beginning of the first sentence was a little weird (Great son o.o) so I looked at the beginning of each line and figured it out.  |
sourdough
Jun 26, 2008
| SouorDough didn't read past the first line when he noticed the Caps off to the left due to his perfect peripheral vision in his middle eye! 
$D  |
parktell   
Jul 17, 2008
| that was hard... I thought maybe it had something to do with the fact that Senior and Junior were capitalized. I thought that it meant that was their last names and you were trying to trick us....  |
parktell   
Jul 17, 2008
| oh yea, and the hint was no help...just more riddles....  |
johnyboy44311  
Sep 30, 2008
| Hehehe..
I don't know if its easy or difficult.  |
myfavflavcherry
Nov 04, 2008
| That was easy! Actually I found it without really trying. It took me a while to actually figure out what it said though.  |
precious1026   
Nov 16, 2009
| I enjoyed this Teaser. This teaser was very Clever and well comprised, utilizing the art of Mystery to the fullest extent of deception. Good Work.  |
PhilThePenguin
Nov 30, 2010
| Easiest i have ever had to deal with got it in less than a minute but great. Always loved those kind of teasers hidden in plain sight! Keep it up!!!  |
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