Trio of women outsmart computer engineers, rocket scientists, and the NSA.

In November of 2005 ScrollQuest.com released The Guardian's Amulet, a nationwide treasure hunt that sent thousands of it's readers scouring the country in search of a mysterious coin that would be their ticket to winning a $50,000 bejeweled amulet. But six month's into this "Quest" it was widely speculated that the solution to solving this hunt had been heavily lopsided in favor of the freakishly intelligent. After all, several computer engineers, a rocket scientist, and a member of the National Security agency were all known to be playing and they could make no headway. What chance did a "normal" person have for solving this adventure? So when Holli Myers, a home-maker from Vestal, New York, finally plucked the coin from it's hiding spot in West Virginia, more than a few faces in the puzzle solving community went red.

Holli was part of a three woman team of "treasure hunters" that put their heads together to unravel the mysteries hidden within The Guardian's Amulet. Holli, along with Vickki Martinus and Martina Thompson spent several months working on the puzzles contained within The Guardian's Amulet. They even coined a name for themselves, "The GAGA Sisterhood". GA being an abbreviation for "Guardian's Amulet". When the three ladies figured out where the treasure was hidden in Harpers Ferry, they turned the actual finding duties over to Myers being that she was the closest of the three to West Virginia.

Ah-ha! So there's the rub. One of Holli's team mates must have had a doctorate in cryptanalysis, right? Well actually, the other two women were another home-maker from Allen, TX and a cookie-baking grandmother from Tulsa, OK.

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