TREASURE: In Search of the Golden Horse – SOLVED!

After 39 years, I finally found a path to the solution. The book version of the puzzle and the movie version (VHS or Beta) use different paths to the solution.

The video version of the puzzle is also based on using the map (arrows and border track), but the relevant text is essentially obtained from a manipulation of the chapter titles.

Solutions to book version

The following documents (pdf) provides the full, step by step solution. The are two different solutions proposed. The first one (now in version 3) is a radical shift from the previous version, the result of finally learning the most difficult of secrets: how to see.

(Version 3 added 2026-03-23)

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The second one has a nice simplicity to it and is based on colors.

(Version 1 added 2025-10-12)

Solution to the VHS/BETA version

Solution to the Laser Videodisc version

Treasure: In Search Of The Golden Horse

I have posted a number of pages on the treasure hunt TREASURE, which ran for 5 years (1984-1989). As the full solution was never published, I am sharing some work that I have done on the subject, after a pause of a few decades. Follow this link to start:

Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse

THE ABOVE MAY HAVE SOME HISTORICAL VALUE, BUT I FINALLY REACHED AND POSTED THE FULL SOLUTION IN MAY 2023 AS A PDF DOCUMENT: