The famous Golden Owl has finally been discovered, after 31 years of treasure hunting. One person has successfully solved the 11 puzzles to get hold of the diamond-encrusted statue.
It was therefore after more than 30 years of mystery and relentless research that the Golden Owl was finally discovered. One of the co-organizers of this treasure hunt, among the most famous in France, made it known this Thursday, October 3, a little before 9 a.m. “We confirm that the Golden Owl countermark was dug up last night, simultaneously with a solution being sent to the online verification system. It is therefore unnecessary for you to travel to dig on the location you suppose to be the one in the cache, as previously announced, we are verifying the validity of the proposed solution,” said painter Michel Becker, on the website dedicated to the game.
We still do not know who the winner of the game is, the one who will be able to place the golden owl, with an estimated value of more than 150,000 euros for the diamonds that constitute it, on his fireplace. Given the excitement this game has created and the years of mystery, it is likely that the winner will become a real star in the treasure hunting community.
This person has finally solved the 11 puzzles that make up the game, which have haunted the most diligent “owlers” for three decades. What are the solutions to each challenge? Only the organizer and the winner have the answers at this time, but they will be published very soon from now on. It would not be unlikely that the availability of the solutions would be the subject of a small event.
“Each enigma is represented by a cryptogram and a visual. There are eleven of them, but we now know that a twelfth is hidden in the previous ones. It would perhaps be the meta-enigma, the one which gives the final solution “, explained an expert two years ago, in the columns of Les Echos.
Launched in 1993 by Max Valentin (real name Régis Hauser) and Michel Becker, the golden owl hunt has become a phenomenon for generations of researchers. Régis Hauser, at the origin of the project, died in April 2009, sixteen years to the day after the owl’s countermark was buried in a trunk somewhere in France. So it is now empty.
In October 2021, Michel Becker announced that he had signed an agreement with the heirs of Max Valentin. He then had access to the solutions and indicated that the location of the cache was “unchanged since 1993 and corresponds to the nearest centimeter to that resulting from the resolution of the final enigma (‘super-solution’)”.
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