Proving A Preclue's Existence

Not to long ago, I speculated that there was a preclue in the slide show from the Captain's Meeting for Midnight Madness: Back to Basics, but could not find it.

The interesting news is that there was a preclue in the slide show. The bad news is that it was impossible for me to have found.

Jonathan sent me a teasing email last night saying that once he knew there was a preclue (from a comment on Jan's summary), he was able to find it within a minute. With only that, I scoured the presentation and came up empty (although I did note how G, C, and T were used an awful lot as capital letters).

It turns out on the final slide, the one of the movie poster, there were three objects: Binoculars, a Monopoly board, and an almanac. However, they were behind the poster. If they had been in front of the poster, it might have looked like this:



Unfortunately, there was no way (that I can tell anyway) to find those images using the standard PowerPoint Viewer, as recommended on Snout's MM website. Only by using the PowerPoint editor and moving aside the poster could this be revealed. I guess from Dan Egnor's comment that one team did just that.