Golden Owl solution is revealed, but leaves players of 31-year hunt disappointed
FeatureThirty-two years after the launch of the famous treasure hunt, players finally discovered the solution to the 11 riddles in a documentary. The Owl was buried in Dabo, a town in northeastern France well-known to the players, who were surprised by this 'underwhelming' revelation.
"The Owl, I've picnicked on it and peed on it 10 times!" A few hours after the revelations about the Golden Owl's riddles, Nil Godé, aka "Houéran," still couldn't believe it. The treasure was indeed buried in Dabo, a town in northeastern France he had visited several times, like countless hunters, known as chouetteurs, who turned this town into a block of Swiss cheese from all their digging. "I'm not convinced, there's no surprise, no extraordinary solution," lamented Godé, who was "born in 1993, at the same time as the Owl," and searched for it for 16 years.
On Friday, May 2, the environmental inspector from the Vosges region came to Paris to attend the screening of the documentary La Découverte de la Chouette d'or ("The Discovery of the Golden Owl") at the MK2 Quai de Loire cinema, in which the long-awaited solutions to the treasure hunt were revealed.
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