Find The Silver Key

OK.

There’s this cool site, tweleve.org, and a bunch of folks looking for the key have opined there about what is what and different solutions. Also, I’ve had a number of emails and questions, and some people come up to me in person and postulate a variety of things.

As I’ll be releasing official hint(s) next month, I figured I’d put all the solutions that have been presented to me here. In one place. I may have missed some, and I’m sure others have solved things and haven’t told me about them. But I’ll make updates as needed.

Here goes.

1) The Bingo card: has some errors in it. If you take those erroneous numbers and apply them to a periodic table of the elements, you’ll be able to spell out, via the elemental abbreviations, the name of a city in the Pacific Northwest. Eugene, Ore.

2) The dedication has been traced to a bench that is, or used to be, in Silver Falls, a state park in Oregon. Benches there apparently decompose rather quickly what with all the moisture. However, it may have looked like this:

3) There are a number of roads/highways (?) in the artwork. Nobody has told me what these mean. Yet.

4) The map – no one has explained what the map is, the letters around it, or what appears to be a code beneath the letters.

5) The card sequence matches the title of one of the songs. 89KJ = HIKJ, the second song. What’s the significance?

6) The redacted text is from The Bible.

7) Both the topographical map and enciphered text on the inside of the package are unsolved.

One song has two sped-up bursts of Morse Code. They spell “hemily” and “sunflower”.

9) The first letters of each line of “Ever Upward” spells “Eureka, I found it”.

10) The first phonetic of each line of “My Silver Key” spells “next two capital”.

11) There’s some chatter at the end of “…Show Tunes” that says “O yeah he is, bloody good that boy. All the way across the Atlantic Ocean – I saw Charlie Chaplin once – nothin’ on ‘im.”

12) There’s a typo in the Rules & Regulations. It is not a clue, it is an unintentional typo.

13) Some videos got dropped on YouTube with a guy called Marvin in them. While interesting and amusing, they have no clues. They are silly. All the clues are in the actual album – the music & the art. That’s all you need.

That’s all I think.

Feel free to post questions or comments here. I’ll be as frank as I can without, you know, actually telling where anything is. You gotta sort all that out yourself.

best

Steve