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New England's gold treasure hunt is back on (sort of)
There’s been a big twist in the New England treasure hunt that captivated much of the internet, with a new golden treasure currently hiding out in the woods.
The original Project Skydrop prize was a gold statue worth more than $25,000, but it was found last week by a Boston meteorologist. But there was a secondary, and more valuable prize that went with the statue: a bounty that grew to be $87,600 along with the number of people who paid to get clues in the treasure hunt.
That prize money was originally supposed to be paid out to the winner in Bitcoin, but the game’s designers have come up with a new way to deliver it — through the new treasure hunt, which appears to be ongoing, for a pot of gold coins.
People are searching for a golden statue worth more than $25,000.
Dan Leondard, the meteorologist who found the gold statue, apparently had first dibs on solving the puzzle by finding the statue, but the clues have now been released.
“There is now $87,600 worth of gold sitting in a secret wooded location, waiting for the the winner to find. He’s got a hard puzzle to solve first, though. But the puzzle has been published to all members on our website, so the game is still afoot,” the game’s founders, Jason Rohrer and Tom Bailey, explained in a email to media Friday.
On the Project Skydrop website, a message teases of the gold lost in New England’s woods, “WE ARE PRETTY SURE ONLY ONE MAN CAN FIGURE OUT WHERE IT IS…”
Leonard acknowledged the new treasure hunt in a video he released this week as part of the bounty-claiming process.
“Let’s figure out how to find this rainbow, get to the end of it, get that pot of gold and, uh, wrap this up,” he said, also noting that he plans to use some of the winnings to give back, including to the Project Skydrop community.
Live trail cameras set up, as with the first statute, to monitor the prize have already tracked wildlife walking by the pot of gold. No one has claimed it as of late Friday night.
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Parts of a busy Boston street were closed to traffic on Friday morning after a massive water main break flooded the road.
The break happened on Tremont Street between Camden Street and Massachusetts Avenue, right on the South End and Roxbury line.
It’s in the same area where another water main break swallowed part of a vehicle and left the road impassable on October 1.
The Boston Fire Department said they had significant flooding on Tremont with the main area affected being 791 Tremont Street, the Piano Craft Guild building.
Boston Fire Captain Michael Feeney said that the building was most affected.
“They had some pretty good flooding in their basement there. We were able to, Boston Water and Sewer was able to secure the water and we were able to mitigate the water damage to the basement there at 791 and secure the electrical,” Feeney said.
Fenney commented that there are apartments in that basement but they don’t appear to have damage, only the maintenance side.
A car ended up in a sinkhole as the water rushed down the road.
That car and others were towed away so work to fix the problem could be done.
“Boston Water and Sewer is going to remain on scene. There’s some significant damage to the street. They’re going to be working on that all night. Tremont Street is going to be shut down from Mass Ave to Camden Street just for one-way traffic,” Feeney said.
The October 1 break was to a 20-inch water main.
Boston Water said they were replacing 16 feet of pipe after that break.
It’s unclear if this is the same pipe or a different one this time.
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Police on Cape Cod are looking for a missing teenager last seen earlier this week.
Authorities in Barnstable, Massachusetts, said Thursday that 15-year-old Ja’Aysia Kilburn had been missing since Monday.
The Barnstable resident was last seen in the town’s Hyannis area, police said.
Kilburn is described as being 5’2 and about 100 pounds.
When she was last seen, Kilburn was wearing black pants and a white tank top, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call 508-778-3874.
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