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epic redditor
Feb 17, 2025
WARNING: SPOILERS

This was implied by the book, and confirmed by the film adaptation. The children imprisoned at the work camp don't dig their holes in a fashion that makes them continuous, they keep enough distance between them to make them distinct. This means that if Kissin' Kate Barlow buried her treasure in the space between 2 or 3 holes dug, they would never revisit this spot and as such never find it. Is the warden supposed to be too stupid to realize this?

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Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
they shoulda named it PLOT "holes"

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

don’t post porn here

epic redditor
Feb 17, 2025
moreover, what if the treasure was buried deeper than 5 feet? why waste so many years on such a wild goose chase that had a significant chance of never paying off?

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam
They can go back between the holes, once the entire field has been excavated once. It's just a matter of being patient. Of course, by then, the original crew of boys will be gone, and the new rule will be "You must dig, five feet deep, and connect two existing holes."

Patience. It's all about patience.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


its all answered in the sequel "Mounds"

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam
That's a candy bar...

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Of course a hole noob would think that.

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




Gapes

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981


Disgusting post to make in front of other people.

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Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




there was nobody here when i posted it

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