I also prefer reading a book first.
3 movies that did the book justice are:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Last Thing He Told Me
Where the Crawdads Sing

I remember reading a book in high school(70’s)called A Patch of Blue, it was made into a movie 1965, starring Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters & Elizabeth Hartman. The movie was great, chilling, thrilling, emotional, but I was glad I read the book first, to get the full details & to feel the different personalities of each person. Loved it.
The Outsiders was another book I enjoyed reading first, Ponyboy Curtis was my favorite, the movie was also great with an excellent cast.

First Clue Posted: Oregon
I already solved it. It looks like you get a couple days to figure it out, then have to "show up" at the listed time.

Florida
Pretty sure I solved that one too. The clues are, so far, like simple letterbox mystery boxes.

It clutters up the search results if you leave a bunch of boxes listed as "active" when they really aren't there. It's just a way to let people know that there's nothing to be found by following those clues. Don't waste your time looking for it.

-- Ryan

SAME! Everyone thinks I'm weird for this, but it's like watching the cliff notes then getting to do a deep dive when reading.

I can almost always enjoy the movie if I have nothing to compare it to, but if I've read the book and loved it, I can't enjoy the movie. I spend the entire time thinking about the differences and cut out scenes. Even descriptions/character appearances will turn me off from the movie.

Some films do a pretty good job with a book and some do not. If I read the book first I’ll probably be annoyed with the film.

But I think that it’s very rare that a book translates well to film, simply because it’s too very different mediums.

Recently on Facebook someone complained that an author took several pages to illustrate what a movie showed in a few minutes. I don’t think that’s a valid complaint.

Film can very easily show a mood and location in minutes. An author has to use the printed word to bring the reader to a place and feeling. This can take pages to describe. It’s apples and oranges.

You take a traditional stamp to an event, hide it, leave clues on a bulletin board. Maybe you hide it behind your cabin if it’s a camping type event. After the event you take the box home.

It’s not there anymore. It needs to be retired. People can continue to log finds even if it’s retired.

If you want to plant that box somewhere else at a later time you create a new listing

It’s ok you won’t die alone. Some of us will be up there with you. :)))

Yeah, I saw there was a limited window to actually find the idols. That’s going to make it hard to be there at the right time, especially if it’s on the other side of the state.

I read a lot and I see a lot of movies. In college, I was an English major with a Film Minor. So I love both. I usually have read the book first, especially with classic texts (Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Fitzgerald etc etc ) and sometimes I’ll see a movie and I will seek out the original book — I often look forward to a movie made from a book specifically to see how they interpret it. Most recently, The Martian and Project Hail Mary from the books by Andy Weir

Amanda from Seattle

I agree. I guess it is nice they give you a couple days before the required meet time, but that is still a potential logistical nightmare. At least for me, I feel the odds of them being around Anchorage are VERY high so I can do it, but it will still be on a random weekday (clue releases on a Saturday here).

Older post, but I have been planting a winter holiday themed stamp in a big green christmas bulb that I hide in the holiday decor at Olde Mistick Village. I mark it as a limited time because I need to remove it before they take down the holiday decorations. This is outside of a letterboxing event, but it is one reason why a limited time would be marked on a traditional stamp.

I have travelled to Wichita all my life but everyone has now passed away so there won't be a reason to go again. To go while you're there for a meet up tho....hmmm :)

bring it all to the next event for a prize raffle!

I really hope a letterboxer makes it to at least one immunity idol...and brings an ink pad to stamp in. Anything is a stamp if you believe in yourself hard enough!

True. There are lots of differences. And in my opinion, the biggest of these is that the author is trying to make art, production companies are trying to make money. There's largely one person involved in the vision of a book, there's dozens if not many, many more involved in the vision of a movie.

Because it’s their money being spent, producers believe that they know what will make them money, and in their world to sell and make money they need a movie that will appeal to as large an audience as possible. It’s a business, and there are tens of millions of dollars at stake. I’m not always happy with their decisions either, but it is their money and they have a right to spend (invest) it as they see fit. An author basically only has his time invested.

Without visuals, books rely heavily on portraying the message through characters’ dialogue and thoughts. This gives the audience a good grasp on not only what’s going on in the story but also dives deeper into characters’ thoughts—an aspect movies often struggle to capture. Books also tend stretch out time, giving readers time to process and interpret the text. Whereas movies tend to be much more condensed, leading straight to the point but condensing the time that viewers have to process the storyline.

Me either...lol.

I read that its attending the after party. Not my thing, but Ill play anyway to find the idol.

No clues for MA yet. The site says clues will be released in '7 days 19 hours 41 min' lol.

I think RizzGod was playing with people who didn't know what they were doing...lol.

If I was there, I would of had him flush his darn idol from the beginning...lol.

I dont think they are that physical, I was looking at Florida's and it says:

{{Indoors, about 1 hour, comfortable shoes, ADA accessible.

I guess RI has the upper hand as being the smallest state.

Am I the only one who is addicted to this game show? I love it.

Vermont posted today!

I'm pretty sure I have that solved. I can be there in an hour and a half - but I would be searching in the dark! Hopefully it will still be there on the weekend.

I have to say - from the Letterboxing perspective, these Hidden Immunity Idol clues are pretty easy!

Right back at you.
Hugs, Psycho & Wrexx

For sure. Even so, I don't know what they saw in him. He wasn't good at challenges and he wasn't strategic. He also bragged bout how long he held onto his idol. That's booooring play. Give me a Russell any day - find an idol, play it then go find it again. I would have been much more impressed with Rizz if would have showed his idol finding skills than his sitting on it skills.

To each his own, I guess, but I saw NOTHING legend about Rizz. Nada.

Very good points!

I’m fairly cynical about a handful of particular and popular authors who shall remain nameless, who have had quite a few movies produced from their books with what in my never humble opinion have been embarrassing results in many cases.

But those authors made a lot of money after already making a ton on best sellers year after year. Money talks.

Hello! Please point me in the right direction if this page is not the appropriate location to recruit stamp carvers.

ForeverStrong6 and I are planning Route 66 Letterboxing Road trip event along the Historic Sunset Hwy (Hwy 2) in Washington State this upcoming September. I am happy to assist with material and shipping costs; I would need the stamps by Aug. 1, 2026. Thank you for considering my request!

Stamp Requests that I don't have images for:
Grand Canyon Themed Stamps
Dog and Cat stamps
Route 66 playlist song stamps (15 song choices)

Stamp Requests that I do have black line images for:
*Green book images (9 images but I don't need that many stamps, these seem like they would be hard to carve because they have text)
*Drive the Speed limit (8 images)
*Burma Shave Products ( 6 images)
*President Lincoln stamps (6 images)
*Sitgreaves pass (2 images)Route Map (15 images)

Pay attention to the top; you don't need to be there until Feb 1 between 10am and 4pm for that one. It is not a "race", I feel it is 'everyone who comes will be entered into a drawing' or something like that.

Why Am I NOT surprised you are working on these? ;^)