Type of Hunt
Armchair
Prize
$160.00
Winner Type
Shared Bounty
Solved
Jan 09, 2026
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Each person who fully and accurately solves this hunt will be a winner, earning an equal share of the reward.
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Prize Pool: $160.00
Split equally among 4 winners
Another "learning experience" for Nails here, as the alphabetized Vigenere is apparently subject to some highly impressive manual (not even brute force, per se) cracking -- an end-around that, even once revealed, remains somewhat baffling to me! As the clues got easier over time, the reveals became somewhat more clear: sneakers, He-Man, Rubik's Cube, Platoon, and the Eiffel Tower (which, coincidentally, was an actual "Best Guess Live!" item a day or two into the hunt!) were our five secret items in this hunt. Putting the items into place gave you the Vigenere key to crack the cipher into: NO MORE SECRETS. For those fans of the (best) movie (of all time) "Sneakers" (as in, sneaky people, not the shoe!), you may have recognized this as a subtle variant of the TOO MANY SECRETS anagram for Cosmo's company Setec Astronomy.