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Re: 2026 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt Clue #2

The Allison Wonderland
2 months 1 week ago
5 Newell5 Langford
just because they are in St Paul and no one else guessed there yet. 
Mike Flipp

On Monday, January 19, 2026 at 02:01:57 PM CST, Allison Wonderland via groups.io <allisonwondrland@...> wrote:

At this point I think the clue is making a reference to Larry Millet. He is definitely someone who is both a mystery writer, having written several Sherlock Holmes novels, and a cluewriter. Some people think sorcery is a reference to Joe Soucheray, maybe just further suggesting that the mystery writer is a PP person? It looks like Millet is 79 which is almost a third of 250, if that is the anniversary they are referring to. 
So let's say it is about him. What does that tell us? Could it be a park he used in a past hunt? Could be one referenced in a book? Could it be near where he lives (not that we should be prying into that, but they've done such a thing before)? It is just clue 2 after all, so we shouldn't expect a lot. Perhaps the biggest takeaway is just to presume that it's somewhere in St. Paul.

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Mike Flipp

Re: 2026 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt Clue #2

The Allison Wonderland
2 months 2 weeks ago
  • John Sandford (John Camp) worked as a reporter and columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press from 1978 to 1990,.
  • While at the Pioneer Press, he won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his series, "Life on the Land: An American Farm Family,".
  • The financial success of his early fiction, launched under the Sandford pseudonym, led him to leave journalism for a full-time writing career,.
  • His experience covering Minnesota issues, from farming to crime, heavily influences the settings and characters in his popular crime novels, which remain popular with Pioneer Press readers.
Tom

Re: 2026 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt Clue #2

The Allison Wonderland
2 months 2 weeks ago
At this point I think the clue is making a reference to Larry Millet. He is definitely someone who is both a mystery writer, having written several Sherlock Holmes novels, and a cluewriter. Some people think sorcery is a reference to Joe Soucheray, maybe just further suggesting that the mystery writer is a PP person? It looks like Millet is 79 which is almost a third of 250, if that is the anniversary they are referring to. 
So let's say it is about him. What does that tell us? Could it be a park he used in a past hunt? Could be one referenced in a book? Could it be near where he lives (not that we should be prying into that, but they've done such a thing before)? It is just clue 2 after all, so we shouldn't expect a lot. Perhaps the biggest takeaway is just to presume that it's somewhere in St. Paul.

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Allison Wonderland

Re: 2026 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt

The Allison Wonderland
2 months 2 weeks ago
There is an order of operations to the prize money.
  1. Find medallion
  2. Have patch
  3. Have button
If you find it with only a button, it is the minimum prize money—You must have the patch to activate the button.
Dave
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