THE HINTS- VITAL TO SUCCESS

[dude here]

Thought I’d review and comment on the latest Flipside video where they were talking about subjectivity and objectivity in the Chase again.

Seanm is irrelevant. He made himself irrelevant by dismissing the hints vital to success. Without those hints, it could take him a thousand years to happen upon the correct solve. He's like that monkey with the typewriter who will eventually reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare.

Sean already agreed with me before that history is involved emphatically with the Chase. That’s what an objective person would figure out. So, why try to diss it now? I don’t get it.

There is not much history involved.

For example this question:

Dear Forrest,

You tell us that we should find “where warm waters halt” before trying to solve any of the other clues. Imagining that we haven’t seen the rest of the poem, and all we have to go on is:

a. “begin it where warm waters halt” and

b. “somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe”

Do you think that we can confidently determine the starting place for your treasure trail?

Steve No, if all you have to go on are those two clues you cannot proceed with confidence. Look at it this way. If you were making a cake and you left out a few ingredients, would you achieve your goal?

The gang on the show did produce the idea that there’s prbly something important in the first stanza of the poem. I agree with that and that’s what I’ve been saying for a long time on this thread and elsewhere. I’ve gone into great detail why, instead of just the obvious opinion, that it’s important.

F says you can’t proceed with confidence with those two clues where wwwh is one of them. You didn’t get to see the rest of the poem. The clues are consecutive. First clue is wwwh. Pretty much means the first stanza is where you get help figuring out wwwh. It has the word “hint” in it. I’d like Sean to read out loud the poem to us with how f defines the word hint for us...

I disagree with your conclusion here. I don't think Mr F meant that you need the first stanza to have confidence in the starting location. He is just saying that you need the other ingredients to make that cake.