The Allison Wonderland

Please put me down for 8 for Como and 2 for Highland.

Terry

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The term MacGuffin is something that I've heard before but I couldn't quite define it so I looked it up just now. Alfred Hitchcock seemed to have come up with the term. It is a plot device. It is something that seems very important to the characters in the story, but the audience doesn't actually care about it. For example, in Mission Impossible, the good guys and the bad guys are both after some code that unlocks a list of spies. It's very important to them, and why they are doing what they are doing, but we as the audience may not have even really understood what exactly it was even. So it is curious that refer to the medallion as a MacGuffin. It is an object that is at the center of our story, and what drives us to do what we are doing here. I suppose if you were then watching the documentary "No Time for Cold Feet" the medallion might be a MacGuffin. That audience wouldn't care about the medallion itself. They say they're not bluffing which could be a response to "Como? Again? Are you kidding me?"

A park of their very own choosing? Who else would be choosing it?

I don't think I'd worry about the reference to the Vikings and the Twins. They have often had references to the Vikings in Clue 1 and it usually didn't mean anything.

Otherwise I don't like to read too much into Clue 1. There's a million things that *might* be true, but no second point of reference to know if you are on the right track. So the only thing we can say for sure from this clue is that it is in a park.

On the other hand, they did release a "The Deed is Done" video yesterday. It starts with a view of the weather forecast. It shows Friday's forecast and says "Today", so we can assume it was hidden yesterday. Then it shows the trunk of a good sized tree with what look to be some ski tracks behind it. Then it shows the top of presumably the same tree. There is another similar tree to the left and a third one partially hidden behind it. So it's a park with some trees which actually does eliminate a few of the smaller ones. If those were cross country ski tracks behind it, then that also eliminates a lot of small parks that are too small to bother skiing through.