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NBC’s Treasure Hunters: Challenge #8

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’m a bit behind this week as I didn’t get home until after the show started¹. Click the more link to view the spoil­ers for this week’s chal­lenge.

1. Click on the lad­der to head up into the bunk area.
2. Click on the lockers.
3. Click on the mid­dle locker to open it.
4. Take both the net and the goggles.
5. Back out of the bunk area.
6. Click on the door lead­ing to the bridge.
7. Click on the right-hand con­trol panel.
8. Click on the right lever. This should shut off the dis­play and light up the red buttons.
9. Click the 2nd but­ton from the top to sound the ship’s fog horn.
10. Back out of the bridge.
11. Now that the horn has scared off the seag­ull, click on the tool­box and take the flashlight.
12. Click the water to the side of the ship to go div­ing. NOTE: You will have to leave your back­pack behind, but get to take the net, gog­gles and flash­light with you.
13. You con­trol the diver with your mouse and there are 3 items on the river bed. I found it eas­i­est to drag swim until directly over the item and then head straight down to get them.
14. Once you have all 3 items, head back to the ship. When you reach the ship, you’ll be auto­mat­i­cally placed back on deck. The seag­ull will also return knock­ing your back­pack into the water.
15. Dive back into the water to retrieve your backpack.
16. Click on the door to go back to the bridge.
17. Click on the right-hand con­trol panel.
18. Click on the levers until the panel on your left lights up.
19. Enter “emer­gency sup­port” for the department.
20. Click pur­chase on to get the replace­ment back­pack.²
21. Click sub­mit to send the game the details auto­mat­i­cally pro­vided (there does not appear to be any­way to change the set­tings given).
22. Click sub­mit again to send your Ver­i­fied by Visa pass­word²
23. Click ok to the mes­sage that the replace­ment will arrive in 0–4 busi­ness days.
24. Back out of the bridge to the deck.
25. A heli­copter will swoop in and lower a crate to you. Click on the crate.
26. Then the heli­copter will take up a hov­er­ing posi­tion to the left of the ship. Click on the helicopter.
27. Enter “Mex­ico City“³ and hit submit.
28. In Mex­ico City, click near the bot­tom of the game screen. This will dis­play a 15 piece scram­ble puz­zle depict­ing some Aztec sym­bols. Solve the puz­zle to get your next puz­zle piece.
    Let­ters stand in place of the puz­zle pieces while * is the blank square.

    A B C D
    E F G H
    I J K L
    M N O *

    A B C D
    E F G H
    I J K L
    M N * O

    A B C D
    E F G H
    I J K L
    M * N O

    A B C D
    E F G H
    I J K L
    * M N O

    A B C D
    E F G H
    * J K L
    I M N O

    A B C D
    * F G H
    E J K L
    I M N O

    * B C D
    A F G H
    E J K L
    I M N O

    B * C D
    A F G H
    E J K L
    I M N O

    B C * D
    A F G H
    E J K L
    I M N O

    B C D *
    A F G H
    E J K L
    I M N O

    B C D H
    A F G *
    E J K L
    I M N O

    B C D H
    A F G L
    E J K *
    I M N O

    B C D H
    A F G L
    E J K O
    I M N *

29. Then you get a mes­sage con­grat­u­lat­ing you on solv­ing the puz­zle and the last of your puz­zle pieces floats up from the blank square.

When you get back to the game­board, you’ll have a mes­sage say­ing “You have one more puz­zle to solve before you receive your final clue.” Ignore that for the moment and click on the selec­tion of puz­zle pieces. If you don’t know already, when these pieces are prop­erly aligned they form the national mall in Wash­ing­ton, D.C.⁴ Align the pieces so they look like this

Once you align the puz­zle pieces cor­rectly, you’ll be auto­mat­i­cally taken back to the game­board and the back of the fire­place will rise up to reveal a hid­den pas­sage. Click the fire­place to con­tinue. Lis­ten to a short blurb from the show’s host about Betsy Ross pre­fer­ring to use a 5 pointed star because it can be done in a sin­gle cut. Click the book in the cen­ter of the room and then click to either get the PDF or JPEG ver­sion of the image. Print the image⁵, then fold & cut the paper accord­ing to the direc­tions on your print out. Exam­ine the print out not­ing where the sym­bols appear in rela­tion to the star. Then click the box in the mid­dle of the room and arrange the sym­bols in the same order as what you see on your print out⁶. Once you’ve lined the sym­bols up cor­rectly, the box opens and reveals the final clue. After col­lect­ing the last clue, you will be taken back to the game­board where you can make your final guess as to the loca­tion of the trea­sure⁸. Happy hunting!

¹ A good friend’s wife invited me to a sur­prise party for him to cel­e­brate his new job and his 50th birth­day.
² Ok, I’d say this sec­tion def­i­nitely wasn’t nec­es­sary but gave Visa some “decent” adver­tis­ing. Except that the game requires you to do this to get to the heli­copter to get out of here.
³ Cap­i­tal of the Span­ish empire in the Amer­i­cas when the ships were sunk.
⁴ Yes, I know that one piece does look rather like Florida.
⁵ Yup, you need a printer. Which sucks, but what are you going to do quit now? I think not!
⁶ If you don’t have a printer, then the order of the sym­bols should be: Sun Door Hands Apron⁷ Shovel Trowel^9
7 I saw a lot of peo­ple online call­ing this an enve­lope, how­ever it is actu­ally a Masonic apron.
⁸ Sorry, but I’m not going to list my guess here. I want to buy a house and even after taxes $200,000 would help me buy a seri­ously nice house in my area. :D
⁹As Run­yon cor­rectly points out this isn’t a shovel but actu­ally a trowel. Which does make a lot more sense given all of the Masonic sym­bols and imagery they’ve been using through out the channels.

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