@@Chevsilverado yeah, except that doesn't dimish his prowess. Thousands of people participating doesn't increase any individual's chances in particular, it just means the chance that someone really clever participates - aka the guy who eventually found it. Kudos to him!
@@pixelmaster98 I don't know -- I'm not good at stuff like this, really not math or science-minded, but I feel like there has to be something said about sheer quantity of participants. The more people you have, the higher the odds of it being solved. That's just a fact. But yeah, you're not really wrong either, I think it's more that you're both right and my comment is entirely unnecessary. Still posting it because screw it I wrote it already
@@thefinal9923 yes but quantity as he said only increases the chances of a genius participating. he is the genius. there being many many people doesn't make his achievement any less impressive.
Would have loved to hear the winner’s side of the story, like how did he decipher the mystery, how long it took him, his other predictions and whatnot.
With things like this, it’s a skill just like anything else. There’s only so many ways to provide a clue in text or speech form. Once you learn the patterns of wordplay, it’s not as difficult to solve. I.E. look up cryptic crosswords. A lot of the skills necessary to solve something like Max’s clues would be something an expert on cryptic crosswords would have, or someone who’s just really in to word play.
Been waiting so long for this! Fair play to the guy that won, unreal video idea Max, absolutely love it. Now how do we get Mr.Beast to agree to sponsor the next one of these? 🤷🏻♂️
No-one did actually solve it. People just threw shit at the wall until something stuck. It was eventually pretty much given away with the clues and then just bruteforced with manpower.
yeah... I listened to the song like 4 times and just went on with my life. I can't believe how intricate this was, not to mention the fact that someone actually solved all this..
would have been awesome to hear the winner's thoughts. if you do this again maybe interview the person who wins so you can cut in their experience of the adventure as it went along?
@@cyber_HAF i think he is referring to the fact that this ended up with close friends and family being hassled (even though he stated that no one close to him had the answer)
For everyone who wasn't involved in this: unfortunately for us seekers, it was a bit of a disappointing situation. The final clue that actually gives you the fax number wasn't available at all until the day it was finally solved. Max didn't drag the hunt out for months by making a really smart/hard clue - he dragged it out by simply not releasing the necessary clue until days after the website was even found (and no one found the website until the Point Fun clue which was months into the hunt). It was fun in general to be part of, but frustrating to have spent so long working on something (under the impression that "everything we needed to solve the hunt was right there in the song") only to not get the clues until the very end. The one silver lining was the awesome Discord community and the fact that it was someone from that community who actually worked hard, all the way through, and won.
Ah, if that’s the case, I understand your frustration. I guess Max wanted it to be more accessible to everyone? Buried in the UK brings the scope down. Involving everyone ment he needed to gate the progress. I think next time he just needs to make it really long. Put in some branches and dead ends. Bring locality back, but delegate and distribute it. Hide each number of a code in a different clue. Etc etc. Make a website that has an unforgiving hard tiny game that spits out a temporary key. It’s hard to contest the power of a Discord board with well educated people looking for gold.
LOL the moment he started singing and I saw it was a riddle I was like..."I'm out, I can't do riddles". Now that I saw the actual whole thing now, I can confirm I would never have figured it out.
I think you nailed what you set out to do: create a task that hundreds of thousands would engage in but only one would solve (and not solve too quickly either). Excellent stuff, hoping there is a next one.
For those interested, the text at the bottom of the web page has changed to: "I've loved hearing from you, but I've stopped taking any more messages. Watch out for an announcement from MF, hope you had fun!!! Plenty more things to treasure out there :)"
It is very clever! Though I'd wager that he had help from someone with expertise in riddles and scavenger hunts such as this. They are as hard to create as they are to solve.
This was brilliant! More treasure hunts are needed for sure! Although you could make it an annual video series! And next year you should step it up another notch! 👀👌🏼
Absolutely unbelievable content!!! I love how you use your platform for ingenious and fun ideas that are open to anyone and everyone. The video is also done exceptionally well. I believe one of the finest and most wholesome pieces of content that I have seen in a very long time.
This treasure hunt was awesome, a bit confunsing but awesome overall. I joined in on the hunt and got most of the clues such as the spoonerism and swapping around words and letters, I just couldnt get to the website by myself. Once the website was discovered I tried to decode and break down the whole thing but it turns out I was just looking into it WAY too much. I congratulate the guy who found it though, excellent work!
God, I remember the discord server the first day after you posted this video. Pretty sure we thought that it was in a jewellery shop somewhere in Italy. I’m almost certain someone knew someone that lived in Italy and actually got them to go there lol. Hats off to the winner anyway, I’ve been dying to find out who won for months so great job on the video Max!
I honestly thought it would take longer to find, but it's only been 3 months since you posted the original video. Congrats to the guy who found it. It would have been interesting to hear his story of how he found it
I think dear Mr Fosh could run a brilliant arg, or find something fun to do with geocaches if he hasn't already, and if not i'll be waiting patiently for him to discover either.
I'm so sad I missed the final hint of "point fun". it would've been such a blast to go through the website. but even the parts of the hunt that I was a part of were super fun. my theory was contacting arthur mosh, because the keeper of the secret is not close to max, so instead of fax I made it into fin since min is the opposite of max, and arthur mosh was working for a fintech company at one point in quite a high position. There was a bunch of other confirmed I found for my theory but I don't remember all of em from the top of my head. I never followed that lead but I was convinced that was it since nobody ever brought that specific person up in any of the treasure hunt discords
Well done. I knew there had to be some sort of Cypher/code to things, but wow did it go farther than I thought. Guess I'll have to be more prepared for the next one.
I just can't begin to imagine his face when he gets back to the states and they demand a $45,000 winnings tax... God bless the UK where if u win something, its just yours...
Awesome work I wish I had paid more attention about it being worldwide. I would have probably tried for fun. I mean I would have gave up after like 15 mins but I would have tried lol.
i genuinely have no fucking idea how that guy managed to figure out every one of those clues. i tried and could not find anything useful so i just stopped trying.
I can see how I maybe would have managed to get some of the steps myself, but the last one with the letters for the numbers? I still don't really get it😂
He's on the Discord so you can pop on there and leave questions for him. He was part of it from the beginning I believe, and he definitely made use of the collaboration on there, as we all did. The website actually didn't have the final clue on it from the start (which was very frustrating) - Max made us wait until lots of people had seen the site before he even posted that one final, vital clue. Everyone knew by then to "fax Mosh" and that they were looking for a fax number. About 4 hours after the clue was actually posted, the winner made a good guess (because really there were a lot of ways to get a long number from that clue and no way to know for sure if it was right) and happened to be right.
7:17 Even if I had participated and gotten to here, I would've messed up. When you said a "dear old queen" and "state of Australia" I was like "hmm, Victoria!"
I don't consider myself dumb, but I don't believe I would have ever been able to unravel so many intricate and obscure clues, in order. Well done to the winner! Very interesting treasure hunt Max!!
This is exactly how I expected it to go. Completely "simple" when pointed out, all the clues make sense. You would totally believe you are in the right direction, up to the finally. Congrats to the Winner, Thanks to Max for the challenge.
I do genuinely think Mr Beast would “sponsor” a $1 million treasure hunt. He might need some involvement for his channel perhaps but if you get ahold of him I’m sure he would do it. Anyways, great video and I’m very impressed with the creativity behind that short but complicated riddle!
Explanation all written down on the silly company website (you gotta find it though 😉)
www.thesillycompany.co.uk
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i am impressed how this guy managed to go through all these tiny details to get the fish
When you have thousands of people doing this treasure hunt I guess one of them is bound to do all of these clues.
@@Chevsilverado yeah, except that doesn't dimish his prowess. Thousands of people participating doesn't increase any individual's chances in particular, it just means the chance that someone really clever participates - aka the guy who eventually found it.
Kudos to him!
@@pixelmaster98 Ye
@@pixelmaster98 I don't know -- I'm not good at stuff like this, really not math or science-minded, but I feel like there has to be something said about sheer quantity of participants. The more people you have, the higher the odds of it being solved. That's just a fact. But yeah, you're not really wrong either, I think it's more that you're both right and my comment is entirely unnecessary. Still posting it because screw it I wrote it already
@@thefinal9923 yes but quantity as he said only increases the chances of a genius participating. he is the genius. there being many many people doesn't make his achievement any less impressive.
Would have loved to hear the winner’s side of the story, like how did he decipher the mystery, how long it took him, his other predictions and whatnot.
Of course you'd like to know... Because you know nothing Jon Snow
With things like this, it’s a skill just like anything else. There’s only so many ways to provide a clue in text or speech form. Once you learn the patterns of wordplay, it’s not as difficult to solve. I.E. look up cryptic crosswords. A lot of the skills necessary to solve something like Max’s clues would be something an expert on cryptic crosswords would have, or someone who’s just really in to word play.
shocked this was solved quicker than the zodiac cypher
@@RobMedellin you win the internet today! thank you :)
@@maynardewm why didn`t you won then?
To everyone who pestered me on DMs I genuinely didn’t know this
heh I think I got drunk with you at SGP
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I have a screenshot of your comment on the original video.
The reply was gold.
Sorry!
Been waiting so long for this! Fair play to the guy that won, unreal video idea Max, absolutely love it. Now how do we get Mr.Beast to agree to sponsor the next one of these? 🤷🏻♂️
It was a really good video idea, lol
You mean Br. Meast, smh
@@error.418 I do believe it is Mr. Breast you are referring to, common mistake
@@Erin-000 You, my friend, are mistaken too. It's actually Mr. Beach
@@corners1733 funnily enough, you’re also incorrect. It’s Mr. Bleach!
It is absolutely insane that peoples brains are able to work like this
It's called problem solving and given enough practice anyone could do it
@@quinten01 I used to believe that, but after interacting with enough people, I no longer do.
No-one did actually solve it. People just threw shit at the wall until something stuck. It was eventually pretty much given away with the clues and then just bruteforced with manpower.
@@quinten01 not true, dumb people exist
@@LarryJL Im sorta thinking the same thing, like with enough people its gonna happen
We are silly
Silly to the max…
Spoken like a true follower of Sillyism.
We are silly
Always silly
oh so very silly
treasure hunt king confirmed ✅
youtube?????
What is youtube doing here
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1 million dollar treasure hunt confirmed
Friendly reminder that one of CZcams's founders is subscribed to Max
yeah... I listened to the song like 4 times and just went on with my life. I can't believe how intricate this was, not to mention the fact that someone actually solved all this..
would have been awesome to hear the winner's thoughts. if you do this again maybe interview the person who wins so you can cut in their experience of the adventure as it went along?
i think he just wanted to get this over with tbh, he was tired of it. he originally didn't even post a main channel video
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@@MM-fg4tw what do you mean he didnt post a main channel video?
He has a video and starts the challenge officially with the video,no?
Yeah, I’d have liked that too.
@@cyber_HAF i think he is referring to the fact that this ended up with close friends and family being hassled (even though he stated that no one close to him had the answer)
Thanks for posting Max, we've been waiting for this one since eternity.
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I think he watched jane die
@@clethtinthiallor9179 You're Goaddamn Right!
Since when, i have a hard time looking for the video when he hold the hunt.
For everyone who wasn't involved in this: unfortunately for us seekers, it was a bit of a disappointing situation. The final clue that actually gives you the fax number wasn't available at all until the day it was finally solved. Max didn't drag the hunt out for months by making a really smart/hard clue - he dragged it out by simply not releasing the necessary clue until days after the website was even found (and no one found the website until the Point Fun clue which was months into the hunt). It was fun in general to be part of, but frustrating to have spent so long working on something (under the impression that "everything we needed to solve the hunt was right there in the song") only to not get the clues until the very end. The one silver lining was the awesome Discord community and the fact that it was someone from that community who actually worked hard, all the way through, and won.
@James Skinner you wouldn’t have your entertaining little video to watch if people didn’t participate.. let people enjoy things. damn.
Ah, if that’s the case, I understand your frustration. I guess Max wanted it to be more accessible to everyone? Buried in the UK brings the scope down. Involving everyone ment he needed to gate the progress. I think next time he just needs to make it really long. Put in some branches and dead ends. Bring locality back, but delegate and distribute it. Hide each number of a code in a different clue. Etc etc.
Make a website that has an unforgiving hard tiny game that spits out a temporary key.
It’s hard to contest the power of a Discord board with well educated people looking for gold.
He did say it was possible to get to the website without the extra clue, just unlikely.
He said with there was another way to find the website
What’s the name of the discord? I’d like to meet some treasure hunters
This entire thing went straight over my head, I would have never had got any hints from that song.
yh literally XD
LOL the moment he started singing and I saw it was a riddle I was like..."I'm out, I can't do riddles".
Now that I saw the actual whole thing now, I can confirm I would never have figured it out.
I think you nailed what you set out to do: create a task that hundreds of thousands would engage in but only one would solve (and not solve too quickly either). Excellent stuff, hoping there is a next one.
I could barely follow along WITH the explanation. That winner guy must be a professional spy or something. Awesome work.
For those interested, the text at the bottom of the web page has changed to:
"I've loved hearing from you, but I've stopped taking any more messages. Watch out for an announcement from MF, hope you had fun!!! Plenty more things to treasure out there :)"
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The level of detail needed to win this was unreal, this guy did so well! Great treasure hunt Max
Wow, i really would never have solved that. Well done Tan!
8:07 Printers saving ink be like:
You’re so clever, Max! From a business, marketing and SEO level you’re a master!!! (As well as with entertainment and treasure hunts of course!)
It is very clever! Though I'd wager that he had help from someone with expertise in riddles and scavenger hunts such as this. They are as hard to create as they are to solve.
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So true
This was brilliant! More treasure hunts are needed for sure! Although you could make it an annual video series! And next year you should step it up another notch! 👀👌🏼
thats honestly impressive, man deserved the win
Congrats to the maker and the solver of a good hunt! Impressive.
Absolutely unbelievable content!!! I love how you use your platform for ingenious and fun ideas that are open to anyone and everyone. The video is also done exceptionally well. I believe one of the finest and most wholesome pieces of content that I have seen in a very long time.
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@@EEEEEEEE Ben?! More like when oh darling when sunnn side sally says ye ye ye ballpoon
Thanks Max for the great hunt!
MORE PLEASE. Didn't find out about this game till today, just subbed so I could play along next time. Max- u the MAN!!!
This treasure hunt was awesome, a bit confunsing but awesome overall. I joined in on the hunt and got most of the clues such as the spoonerism and swapping around words and letters, I just couldnt get to the website by myself. Once the website was discovered I tried to decode and break down the whole thing but it turns out I was just looking into it WAY too much.
I congratulate the guy who found it though, excellent work!
Love your videos max! Keep up the good work!
God, I remember the discord server the first day after you posted this video. Pretty sure we thought that it was in a jewellery shop somewhere in Italy. I’m almost certain someone knew someone that lived in Italy and actually got them to go there lol. Hats off to the winner anyway, I’ve been dying to find out who won for months so great job on the video Max!
Out of random interest was the discord just a Max fosh discord or one people made specifically for the hunt? Or neither of those 😅
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I was hopeless with any of those puzzles. Well done to Tan, Amazing!
Well done Tan! You smashed it buddy 🏆
I kinda love the idea of multiple people/organisations all over the world recieving cryptic messages about fish 😂
I honestly thought it would take longer to find, but it's only been 3 months since you posted the original video. Congrats to the guy who found it. It would have been interesting to hear his story of how he found it
I think dear Mr Fosh could run a brilliant arg, or find something fun to do with geocaches if he hasn't already, and if not i'll be waiting patiently for him to discover either.
Love that we get an Insight to how you tick... 🤣. I always have a good laugh with your vlogs...
It seems maddeningly simple when you explain it, yet there’s no way I could have figured it out
Fair play! Makes me wish I had looked into this more. Lovely puzzle, involving faxing is a nice touch.
Max you’re creative and silly at the same time. This vid idea had me captivated
Congrats to the lad who found it! I got to fax mosh, but I gave up after that. Great hunt, I really enjoyed it!
I’ve been waiting so long for this video! I wrapped my head around this riddle and couldn’t figure it out but I’m so glad this friendly guy found it.
Max always brings the banger videos to the table!
I'm so sad I missed the final hint of "point fun". it would've been such a blast to go through the website. but even the parts of the hunt that I was a part of were super fun. my theory was contacting arthur mosh, because the keeper of the secret is not close to max, so instead of fax I made it into fin since min is the opposite of max, and arthur mosh was working for a fintech company at one point in quite a high position. There was a bunch of other confirmed I found for my theory but I don't remember all of em from the top of my head. I never followed that lead but I was convinced that was it since nobody ever brought that specific person up in any of the treasure hunt discords
Well done. I knew there had to be some sort of Cypher/code to things, but wow did it go farther than I thought.
Guess I'll have to be more prepared for the next one.
A treasure hunt that you can do from your couch that involved millions of people, well done Fosh!
Max you gotta get with the trend and ask Tan to "Take the 100k treasure or double it and give it to the next guy?"
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I just can't begin to imagine his face when he gets back to the states and they demand a $45,000 winnings tax... God bless the UK where if u win something, its just yours...
@@EEEEEEEE why E? Explain yourselves
I was way off, I was thinking the piano company had something to do with it 🤣
Great video. Keep it up Max
Wow I'mma be honest, I totally forgot about this. Excited to watch the video. Keep it up!
I'm glad this was so complicated, saved me a lot of worry.
Honestly a 10mil hunt collab with BrMeast would be insane and would be soooooooooo good to watch
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Pretty sure thats how you start world war III
This is amazing!! So complex, you're a genius! Well done Tan!!!
my toxic trait is that i think that i could solve a puzzle like this
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Awesome work I wish I had paid more attention about it being worldwide. I would have probably tried for fun. I mean I would have gave up after like 15 mins but I would have tried lol.
Brilliant! love your videos, I am now off to sign up to your "Silly Company" 🙂
The mental gymnastics needed to reach that conclusion astound me.
This was crazy… I can’t imagine the amount of trials and errors people made for this money
This dude‘s a menace.
i genuinely have no fucking idea how that guy managed to figure out every one of those clues. i tried and could not find anything useful so i just stopped trying.
I’m impressed that my country was actually featured in something outside of
Australia.. 😂 great job Tan!
This guy’s ideas are so unique and amazing I can tell in few years time his channel is going to be massive!
Please do another treasure hunt. The videos about it and the guessing were really fun!
Congrats Tan! 🎉
Would really like to see a video from Tan explaining his process in figuring it all out. Amazing stuff!
Max always comes through with the bangers 🙏🏻🔥
fax no printer
Suprised matpat didn’t give it a crack
When are you gonna do another (similar) treasure hunt?
If you do another one you should totally get someone like MatPat to help you make an ARG! I think that would be awesome!
I can see how I maybe would have managed to get some of the steps myself, but the last one with the letters for the numbers? I still don't really get it😂
Finally! Now I want to hear the story behind how he did it! Anyone know if he'll post anything explaining how it went for him?
He's on the Discord so you can pop on there and leave questions for him. He was part of it from the beginning I believe, and he definitely made use of the collaboration on there, as we all did. The website actually didn't have the final clue on it from the start (which was very frustrating) - Max made us wait until lots of people had seen the site before he even posted that one final, vital clue. Everyone knew by then to "fax Mosh" and that they were looking for a fax number. About 4 hours after the clue was actually posted, the winner made a good guess (because really there were a lot of ways to get a long number from that clue and no way to know for sure if it was right) and happened to be right.
I applaud you and love your work. And thanks for not accepting a sponsorship from that company who is selling ‘titles’
Lol why?
Bro was a frickin genius
I hate that I never really went for this competition. I love this! 🧡
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7:17 Even if I had participated and gotten to here, I would've messed up. When you said a "dear old queen" and "state of Australia" I was like "hmm, Victoria!"
i cant wait to see you really set up bigger and better things you are already one of the crazy but interesting people ever!
it is amazing! congrats to Tan!!!
I don't consider myself dumb, but I don't believe I would have ever been able to unravel so many intricate and obscure clues, in order. Well done to the winner! Very interesting treasure hunt Max!!
Thank you max this was a super fun hunt. I can’t wait for what’s to come! I had fun participating:) It was silly to the max!
not sure why it always takes me so long to watch max's videos. they never disappoint
Cool merch ideas! Love the signet ring.
m8, not trolling. But that was sooo dificult. I not dumb ( i think ) but i had no chance. Respect to the lad that did.
I’m impressed with how creative this was, you put a lot of thought into it! Well done, Max! & well done to the winner! 👏🏻
Thank god I didn't spent any time trying to solve this, I would've gone mad. Some people's riddle solving skills are just insane!
You and the yt channel game theory plus br meast need to do a big collab where it’s an arg treaure hunt
This is exactly how I expected it to go. Completely "simple" when pointed out, all the clues make sense. You would totally believe you are in the right direction, up to the finally.
Congrats to the Winner, Thanks to Max for the challenge.
That moment you learn you were hot on the trail but gave up before the final hints 😂
Just having this explained to me is making me feel stupid, fair play to the guy who won.
You’re mental 😂 It takes a hell of a brain to devise such a hunt, good work! 👏🏼
Max is secretly creating a group of highly intelligent people to take over the world.
Cicada 3301
How does Max come up with all his ideas?
That was one way to thank the most Fosh Fan.
Everyone chant with me: silly! Silly! Silly!
Silly! Silly! Silly!
Bro I’m no where near smart enough to have figured all that out😭😭🤣
These treasure hunts he's done are so hard, imagine how hard treasure hunts like the secret or whatever hunt had the golden owl at the end are
Bonkers. Top work, Max!
Max: "the deer old queen. The lady state..."
Me: "ah yes, Victoria. Like Queen Victoria"
Max: "...Queensland".
Me, who lives in Queensland: "Oh true"
I do genuinely think Mr Beast would “sponsor” a $1 million treasure hunt. He might need some involvement for his channel perhaps but if you get ahold of him I’m sure he would do it. Anyways, great video and I’m very impressed with the creativity behind that short but complicated riddle!
not in the million years I would have patience to sit down and figure that out :D nicely done
The whole thing is actually pretty impressive.
how people are this smart i’ll never know
watching this made me realise how little I think about things