新英格兰寻宝活动发生了重大转折，吸引了大部分互联网的关注

Skydrop 项目最初的奖品是一座价值超过 25,000 美元的金雕像，但上周被一名波士顿气象学家发现。

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

一个新的金色宝藏目前隐藏在树林中等待被发现。

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 项目最初的奖品是一座价值超过 25,000 美元的金雕像，由一位波士顿气象学家上周发现。与雕像一起获得的还有二等奖：随着在寻宝活动中付费获取线索的人数增加，奖金达到 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，这笔奖金应该以比特币的形式支付给获胜者，但游戏的设计者想出了一种新的方式来提供奖金——通过新的寻宝活动，这一活动似乎正在进行中，以获取一罐金币。

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.

发现金雕像的气象学家丹·伦纳德显然首先有权通过找到雕像来解决这个谜题，但线索现在已经公布了。

"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.

“现在，在一个秘密的树林里有价值 87,600 美元的黄金，等待获胜者找到。不过，他首先要解决一个困难的谜题。但是这个谜题已经在我们的网站上发布给所有会员，所以游戏仍在进行中，”该游戏的创始人 Jason Rohrer 和 Tom Bailey 在周五给媒体的电子邮件中解释道。

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 项目的网站上，一条消息戏弄了新英格兰森林中丢失的黄金，“我们非常确定只有一个人能弄清楚它在哪里……”

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

伦纳德在本周发布的一段视频中承认了新的寻宝活动，这是赏金领取过程的一部分。

"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.

他说：“让我们弄清楚如何找到这条彩虹，到达终点，获得那一桶金，然后，呃，结束这一切。”他还指出，他计划用一些奖金来回馈社会，包括到 Skydrop 项目社区。

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.

与第一条法规一样，设置了实时追踪摄像机来监控奖品，并已经捕捉到了野生动物走过金罐的镜头。截至周五深夜，还没有人认领它。