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Hoo boy, what a doozy of a day!

Using the accumulated clues gathered from the puzzle and the additional clues Alex gave us, several hunters figured out the location of the next clue was near the corner of Rodney and Tillamok street in Portland, Oregon.

Redditor easykehl was the first on the scene.

Zeke here! Found the gnome thanks to this tweet!https://twitter.com/generalhstrash/status/757773923136122880 (Thank you puzzle people!) Gnome was near the corner of Rodney and Tillamok streets in Portland, OR. I saw it on private property and stood around thinking if I should just go look at it. Someone who knows Alex asked me if I was looking for a gnome, I said yes, but didn’t know if I should. He said he knew it was ok, so I went and grabbed it. I will post more pictures and details as soon as fast as I can type, scan, drag and drop.

The lawn ornament gnome was sitting on a plastic baggie. Inside was a Viewmaster slide and a ripped up brown piece of paper with a riddle.

The slide contains images of the next location.

To the redwoods you now must race

If you’re Confused it’s the right place

The giftshop is not too far

The password to buy the Eyeball jar

Fans remembered that Hirsch and the Gravity Falls crew once visited Confusion Hill in northern California; A tourist trap not unlike the Mystery Shack.

The place opens at 10am PDT, so it wasn’t until the morning that hunters could move forward.

When the puzzle clue was first discovered it also came with a stack of Stan bucks with a word written in invisible ink on the back: ‘FILBRICK.’ Giving out this password gave you the means to buy the jar of eyeballs at Confusion Hill’s gift shop.

WHERE HAS MY GRUNKLE GONE?/ TO STANLEY IN ST. IN OREGON/ A TELEPHONE POLE IS WHERE HE’S AT/ WHY’D HE HAVE TO BOLT LIKE THAT?

There is more than one “Stanley street”, but it was most likely the one in Amity, Oregon. The search was lasting longer than expected, so Alex tweeted out some more hints:

After a few hours of searching, the next clue was found!! (Actually, it had been found perhaps an hour or so earlier and then lost again. Haha, oops.) A piece of rolled up paper was hidden in a magnetic bolt cache.



BEHIND A SIGN BURIED AT THE BASE ROGER TOFTE KNOWS THE PLACEBEHIND A SIGN BURIED AT THE BASE NEAR PA’S LAUNDRY ON A HILL

“HERE LIE THE BONES OF A MAN NAMED BILL”

This clue lead to The Enchanted Forest in Turner, Oregon. (Which also happens to be Alex’s favorite tourist trap.) One enthusiastic family raced over there recording the whole while. Which is fun to watch even if they were beaten out by someone else.

RETURN TO WHERE IT

ALL BEGAN/ THE FINAL

PIECE IS IN YOUR HAND

THE PARCHMENT CAN

BE SUCH A TEASE/

THE ANSWER’S

WRITTEN IN

THE TREES

The ripped up map bit does in fact fit with the FIRST clue Alex tweeted out!

This feels like the last clue of Cipher Hunt. And with hunters across the web trying to figure out where exactly the corner map is depicting, it looks to be a long night of theorizing. Certainly with the sun down no one’s going anywhere tonight.

*Additional notes: Regardless of the fact that we’ve moved on from the puzzle, Alex has set up a reward for its completion. Both for the physical AND Digital versions.