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NBC’s Treasure Hunters

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Lately, I’ve been watch­ing this some what silly (but still addic­tive) real­ity show on NBC called Trea­sure Hunters. Part of what I like about it is they let you play along with the con­tes­tants. Well, sort of… They have a trivia ques­tion given out dur­ing every show which if answered cor­rectly gives you a shot at $10,000¹. Addi­tion­ally, you can play var­i­ous puz­zles, one released each week, for a shot at $200,000 and an appear­ance on T.V. Per­son­ally, I have no inter­est in ever being on T.V. but that $200,000 would buy a nice house and pay off all our bills². And there would still be enough left over to give some to var­i­ous char­i­ties I like, e.g. Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, Amer­i­can Red Cross or Toys for Tots.

Any­way, I’ve been fol­low­ing the show for a cou­ple of weeks and I’ve got­ten help from the NBC.com forums on solv­ing the weekly puz­zles. Since I appear to be slightly ahead of the curve at the moment, below the cut are is my solu­tion to this week’s puz­zle. You should only read past the cut if you don’t mind spoil­ing the puz­zle for your­self.

Trea­sure Hunters: Puz­zle #6

1. Click on the globe.
2. Spin the globe until you can see the west­ern seaboard of the con­ti­nen­tal United States.
3. Hover your mouse around the west­ern seaboard until the dia­log box shows 38&#176 North, 119&#176 West. Then click the globe.
4. You’ll arrive in Bodie, Cal­i­for­nia. Click on the door­way to the build­ing on your left.
5. In the saloon, click on the player piano.
6. Click on the fourth piano roll from the left on top of the piano. This will open a secret com­part­ment behind the photo in the upper-right sec­tion of the screen.
7. Take the 9 bags of sil­ver and exit the saloon.
8. Click on the door­way of the build­ing to your right.
9. Click to the left and slightly behind the cash register.
10. Take the wagon wheel.
11. Click on the scale.
12. Divide the bags of sil­ver into 3 groups of 3. We’ll call them A, B & C.
13. Weigh Group A vs. Group B.
    • If A < B, then A con­tains the diluted bag & C con­tains all silver.
    • If A > B, then B con­tains the diluted bag & C con­tains all silver.
    • IF A = B, then C con­tains the diluted bag.
14. Dump all the bags known to have sil­ver to one side.
15. Divde the group with the diluted bag into 3 indi­vid­ual bags (D, E, F).
16. Weigh D vs. E, leav­ing F by itself on one­side of the play­ing area.
    • If D < E, then D is the diluted bag.
    • If D > E, then E is the diluted bag.
    • If D = E, then F is the diluted bag.
17. The cash reg­is­ter should now pop open. Click inside to receive a piece of paper read­ing:
    

    Names of the dead or miss­ing should be posted on Lotta’s Fountain

18. Exit the gen­eral store.
19. Click in the alley between the two buildings.
20. Click on the wagon.
21. Click on your back­pack to open it.
22. Click on the wagon wheel to take it out of your backpack.
23. Click on the wagon wheel again to attach it to the wagon.
24. Click on the wagon and type in “San Fran­cisco” with­out the quotes when it asks you where to go.
25. Click on your back­pack to open it.
26. Click on the bags of sil­ver to take them out of your backpack.
27. Click on the bags of sil­ver again to advance to the next stage of the puz­zle (did you notice the “will work for trea­sure sign”?).
28. Click on the but­ton labeled “It’ll cost you”.
29. Watch extremely care­fully as the game rotates the cups around, try to keep track of the cup with a trea­sure bag under it.
30. Once the cups stop mov­ing you must click on the one over the trea­sure bag. Unfor­tu­nately, this is a ran­dom process and I can­not tell you which cup it will be under. It took me sev­eral tries to get it right (using the restart chal­lenge fea­ture). Good luck!

¹ Sure, it’s ran­dom pick after you get the right answer (eas­ily checked out via Google. But if I win, as unlikely as that is to hap­pen, that’s a lot of bills which would instantly van­ish.
² Why yes, I really would use big chunks of money like that to pay bills. I’ve got Scot­tish blood in my veins, what did you expect? *grin*

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