新英格蘭尋寶活動發生了重大轉折，吸引了大部分網路的關注

Skydrop 計畫最初的獎品是一座價值超過 25,000 美元的金雕像，但上週被一名波士頓氣象學家發現。

A new golden treasure is currently hiding out in the woods, waiting to be found.

一個新的金色寶藏目前隱藏在樹林中等待被發現。

The original Project Skydrop prize was a gold statue, valued at over $25,000, which was found last week by a Boston meteorologist. Along with the statue came a secondary prize: a bounty that grew to be $87,600 with the number of people who paid to get clues in the treasure hunt.

Skydrop 計畫最初的獎品是一座價值超過 25,000 美元的金雕像，由一位波士頓氣象學家上週發現。與雕像一起獲得的還有二等獎：隨著在尋寶活動中付費獲取線索的人數增加，獎金達到 87,600 美元。

Originally, that prize money was supposed to be paid out to the winner in Bitcoin, but the game's designers have come up with a new way to deliver it — through the new treasure hunt, which appears to be ongoing, for a pot of gold coins.

最初，這筆獎金應該以比特幣的形式支付給獲勝者，但遊戲的設計者想出了一種新的方式來提供獎金——透過新的尋寶活動，這一活動似乎正在進行中，以獲取一罐金幣。

Dan Leondard, the meteorologist who found the gold statue, apparently had first dibs on solving the puzzle by finding the statue, but the clues have now been released.

發現金雕像的氣象學家丹·倫納德顯然首先有權通過找到雕像來解決這個謎題，但線索現在已經公佈了。

"There is now $87,600 worth of gold sitting in a secret wooded location, waiting for the the winner to find. He's got a hard puzzle to solve first, though. But the puzzle has been published to all members on our website, so the game is still afoot," the game's founders, Jason Rohrer and Tom Bailey, explained in a email to media Friday.

「現在，在一個秘密的樹林裡有價值 87,600 美元的黃金，等待獲勝者找到。不過，他首先要解決一個困難的謎題。但是這個謎題已經在我們的網站上發布給所有會員，所以遊戲仍在進行中，」該遊戲的創始人Jason Rohrer 和Tom Bailey 在周五給媒體的電子郵件中解釋道。

On the Project Skydrop website, a message teases of the gold lost in New England's woods, "WE ARE PRETTY SURE ONLY ONE MAN CAN FIGURE OUT WHERE IT IS…"

在 Skydrop 項目的網站上，一條消息戲弄了新英格蘭森林中丟失的黃金，“我們非常確定只有一個人能弄清楚它在哪裡……”

Leonard acknowledged the new treasure hunt in a video he released this week as part of the bounty-claiming process.

倫納德在本週發布的一段影片中承認了新的尋寶活動，這是賞金領取過程的一部分。

"Let's figure out how to find this rainbow, get to the end of it, get that pot of gold and, uh, wrap this up," he said, also noting that he plans to use some of the winnings to give back, including to the Project Skydrop community.

他說：「讓我們弄清楚如何找到這條彩虹，到達終點，獲得那一桶金，然後，呃，結束這一切。」他還指出，他計劃用一些獎金來回饋社會，包括到Skydrop 項目社區。

Live trail cameras were set up, as with the first statute, to monitor the prize and have already captured footage of wildlife walking by the pot of gold. No one had claimed it as of late Friday night.

與第一條法規一樣，設置了即時追蹤攝影機來監控獎品，並已經捕捉到了野生動物走過金罐的鏡頭。截至週五深夜，還沒有人認領它。