Many frustrated treasure hunters who spent years, money and sweat on the puzzle clamored for the solution. As stipulated by the rules, the treasure was dug up and turned over to a charity - Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America - but the site was not revealed. The horse was made of 2.2 pounds of pure gold and contained a key to a safe-deposit box containing a 20-year annuity for $25,000 a year. Contestants had until midnight on May 26 to find a statuette of a horse buried somewhere in the United States. The story contained arcane and complex clues to the puzzle. The puzzle was offered to the public in 1984 as a story titled "Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse," which was released as a book, videotape and laser disc. Blair, the national sales promotion company that oversaw the contest, has refused to divulge the solution. "We have no comment about the site, but we will acknowledge and confirm that he's given us totally convincing proof that he found the exact location," Thomas Conlon, president of D.L. Nick Boone and Anthony Castaneda, who spent more than five years working separately on the puzzle, told the Associated Press they had solved the riddle and the people who ran the contest don't disagree. Alone among the tens of thousands who sought the buried treasure, they deduced that the Golden Horse was buried in Tennessee Pass, 10,400 feet above sea level, along the Continental Divide in Colorado. They have solved the mystery of the $500,000 Golden Horse treasure contest. NEW YORK - An FBI agent and a deputy prosecutor in Los Angeles were too late for the gold, but they get the glory.
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