This Sunday, October 13, the co-creator of the treasure hunt “La Chouette d’or” Michel Becker confirmed that the enigma had been solved and announced that a new treasure hunt will be launched.
The Golden Owl was indeed found on the night of October 2 to 3, assured Sunday the person responsible for this treasure hunt which had lasted for 31 years, announcing a “sequel” and a film for 2025.
“The solution provided is rigorously exact, it very precisely defines the location of the cache,” said a man filmed in the dark, on the Editions de la Chouette d’or page in a video posted on YouTube. He introduces himself as Michel Becker, the one who had the solution.
On October 3, on the Discord network, the internet forum for enigmas, Becker announced that the countermark of the Golden Owl had been unearthed. This replica was buried in April 1993 in a place that had to be identified using 11 enigmas presented in the book “On the trail of the golden owl”.
A “sequel”
In often cryptic remarks, the man presenting himself as Michel Becker declared on Sunday that the geographical data constituting the solution had been recorded “at 11:22 p.m.” that night “in the database” of the game.
According to him, the person or group who won requested “absolute anonymity”, and “the Owl is now far from France”. Digging up the replica allows you to win the owl, a sculpture weighing around ten kilos in precious metals. Its value was initially estimated at one million francs (150,000 euros).
The man introducing himself as Michel Becker gave fans an appointment on April 23 and 24, 2025, the date of the game’s 32nd anniversary: ”To finalize everything that needs to be finalized, this is the date (…) which we hold back, that all may be revealed.” He promised a “sequel”:
“The new Golden Owl will fly from exactly where the first one was buried, on April 24.”
He considers this delay “sufficient so that the solutions” of the first enigma “can, instead of simply being the subject of the publication of a book, be brought to the screen”. Fans who wish can come forward to testify in this film.
The creator of the enigma was an author of books on marketing, Régis Hauser, who took the pseudonym Max Valentin and who died in 2009. Michel Becker designed the sculpture, made by a goldsmith. After a long conflict between Becker and Hauser’s heirs, the game was relaunched in 2021, with new clues on Discord.
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