THE HINTS- VITAL TO SUCCESS

[fundamental design]

I posted the following on Dal’s yesterday in response to someone so I thought I’d put it here too...

Wanted to give an example of a way to have a later clue help an earlier clue. I generally agree with that later clues can’t help earlier clues. But, I think that f could have found a way to do this and not run afoul of his own rule for what a clue is (gets one closer to the tc) and that the clues are consecutive.

The hypothetical example- A searcher figures out the geographical location nearby the correct wwwh from the first stanza of the poem.

Then, the searcher Begins it wwwh. Takes it in the canyon down while following the poem to Put in below the hoB.

Draw on a map just these clue answers and a possibility exists that when that searcher puts in below the hoB that he/she could be on the opposite side of the wwwh from where they began (just depending on how the dirt road travels, or loops, around the wwwh in this example).

That is how a later clue can help or help confirm a previous clue and not run afoul of f’s statements. The hoB can confirm the correct wwwh by naming it. This would help a searcher nail down the first clue like we have been told by f is essential. The searcher is closer to the tc at the point of putting in below the hoB than he/she was when they began it. Nothing says f can’t use another name for what a searcher has already figured out in a previous clue. In this case, the correct wwwh.