its co-creator announces a film with all the solutions and a new treasure hunt

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The treasure has been unearthed… but it’s not too late to try your luck! Surprise, in a video published this Sunday, October 13, 2024 on the YouTube channel “Les Editions de la Chouette d’Or”, the co-creator of the game, Michel Becker, promises the opening of a new treasure hunt. More than thirty years after the launch of the first.

In this ten-minute video, his face hidden in the darkness, the latter confirms that the riddle has been solved. “On the night of October 2 to 3, I received a first call,” he says. “The solution provided is strictly accurate. It defines the location of the cache very precisely. »

But the suspense remains. And the mysterious master of the game not yet revealed everything.

Where was the Golden Owl buried?

On Discord, the researchers of the Golden Owl treasure, who call themselves “owlers”, have already expressed their frustration with not (still) knowing where the treasure was buried. And, they will have to wait a while longer.

All solutions will be revealed in a film to be released next April for the 32nd anniversary of the launch of the game, assures Michel Becker. “The delay seemed sufficient so that the solutions, instead of simply being the subject of the publication of a book, could be brought to the screen.”

But the co-creator of the game gives a good reason to wait: a new treasure hunt to come. “The new Golden Owl will fly away exactly from where the first one was buried from April 24,” he said.

Who is the mysterious winner?

During that famous night, when the riddle was solved, “I hear [au téléphone – ndlr] the shortness of breath, the excitement, the password buried with the owl and the very fresh, incredulous emotion, which has not yet integrated the scope of the incredible event”, says the co-creator of the enigma , almost as excited as the person who then becomes the lucky winner.

“Of the 22,531 solutions submitted, the one that was validated is the only one that is accurate,” he continues. But who is this mysterious winner? We won’t know, a prioriNever. “He wishes remain in total anonymity. »

In any case, “the owl is now far from France”, adds Michel Becker mysteriously.

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