THE HINTS- VITAL TO SUCCESS

[fundamental design]

I don’t understand the correlation between if we all know where the clues are (in the poem) how that information makes the route of just using the clues to finding the tc easier than following f’s best advice about looking for hints. Just because you know where the clues are doesn’t mean it’s not more difficult to get a correct answer to any of the clues, and consequently all of them, if you’re not trying to figure out the hints too. The end goal isn’t to find the clues. That means if using just the route of the clues, the real hurdle is to find the tc in all the square miles that encompass the 4 state search area from. That is the ultimate truth of that route that you are up against. Not just knowing where/what the clues are. Of course, congratulations to anyone who finds the tc and lets us know that they didn’t utilize any hints.

In my last big write up upstream, I mentioned that from my memory I didn’t remember if f had used the phrase subtle hints before. This was in regards to the phrase in the book about subtle clues sprinkled in the pages and how over time I think f has switched that phrase to just “hints”. Checking on that on Tarryscant.com, I see that f has used the phrase subtle hints before. Sometimes the phrase is written in the question from searchers so he has repeated it. I mainly was pointing out that f seems to have phased out the phrase subtle clues over time and has switched to using the word hints to describe the same meaning.