2005 Allison Wonderland Mock Hunt

HHOOO-HHHOOOO!!!  A lurker de-lurks!  And is intelligent and not a kid!  And noodles...  And...  Can you believe it...  Like maybe even SLOGS!!!!

Welcome, spirit!  Don't know if you're right, but your noodling's better than mine.  Good read and wonderful stuff for The Clueless One to ponder!

Ittiz so nice to have you, WELCOME!!!  Keep those good thoughts coming.

Well, Allison, to keep things blanced, should I toss in the Chip HAS to be in BC?  Actually, for ONCE in my life I'm not leaning there! 

<yet>

The spinning roulette wheel is a hint to the deal
As is a famous west coast educational place

hmmm....steps?? paces??

wheel = deal...?

I feel like I'm on a roulette wheel...(me) ball going one way..and the (AW) wheel going the other

plotting... and looking up bunny stew recipes...

some on this site.

http://www.savetoby.com

I haven't tried this yet, but ...
The number 8 (octagon(?)
What if he's giving us 8 parks, maybe in the shape of an octagon? Intersect the eight points, and the real park is in the middle?
Trickiest hunt yet? -Ian

Nice idea Ian!

newell....if you look on the THG....two picnic shelter right next two each other....8 sides....

How many beers in a case?

How many beers in a case?

Depends on how many you already drank. 24 usually at the start.

Good thing you passed that joe. It was an unjoe because the 1-2-3-4 was not in order

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None right now g.  It was a rough night

I need to make a quick trip. Thanks for the reminder

(damn your fast 3M)

[Edited by on Mar 10, 2005 at 06:45am.]

24 is 3 8s.  So that won't work.  Never mind.

Man, get AWAY from the math, Allison!

AW - I have to say this hunt has me hooked, Good Job!

a lot of good idea out there....I just have to figure out where the link is...we are missing one piece that will tie it all together.  

Yeah.  Great clues.  I like reading all the noodles.  Fascinating.

2005 \09Crosby Farm nature Area - underneath a fallen piece of bark from a fallen tree, frozen to the ground.
2004\09Phalen Park – inside a green donut (in reference to Archie comics #78 where their local newspaper sponsors a similar hunt), in the area between Phalen and Round Lakes
2003\09Como Park – frozen in a chunk of ice under fallen timber and leaves in a wooded area north of the dirt bike course and dutch oven
2002\09Merriam Park – taped to the underside of a tortilla chip can liner
2001\09Como Park – inside an Iron Man sports sock and tucked into a Dove soap box
2000\09Newell Park – inside an Ace brand box of playing cards
1999\09Conway Park – wrapped inside a white, crocheted holder
1998\09Cherokee Park – placed inside an Old Navy brand sock
1997\09Como Park – in a Curad bandage box, wrapped in a red bandana
1996\09Harriet Island Park – inside of a Skoal tin
1995\09Battle Creek Park – placed inside of a knitted yarn pouch
1994\09Highland Park – inside of a little white box

http://www.50states.com/college/oregon.htm

http://www.50states.com/college/washingt.htm

http://www.50states.com/college/calif.htm

Looks to me...only stanford and berk.

maybe Taft U ...cali
maybe Linfield College -oregon---NO!!!! not funny!!!!
maybe...Gonzaga University--I'll never make it fit.
Walla Walla College ---I wish I would have went here!!! 2 cool.

A famous west coast educational place could be something other than a college or university too.  Like a planetarium or a teaching hospital.  Something like that.

or a west coast marine boot camp

The question you have to always ask yourself is, "If this is what the clue means, what does that tell me?"

The west coast thing has me stumped. It is a big clue if figured out well. Berkley and Stanford are obvious, but what about word games with UCLA and USC? Or, Pepperdine? Or, the Navy place in San Diego?

One thing that does occur to me is that if the clue is referring to Stanford/Berkley, maybe we should be thinking about San Francisco or Oakland or San Jose or one of the city names around those two schools.

Or, we could be talking about Linwood because if Stanford/Berkley continued on, they would run into Linwood.

<blushes>

 

"If this is what the clue means, what does that tell me?"

tell's me we need I need to make a road trip with RR to Berkley.

MMM's pic's??

w00t

 

i can probably meet you out around 1 if you are available?

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Again, I would say most of the right answers have been said by someone at some point. Picking out the right ones and then putting them together in the right way is the real trick.

baserd on st. pauls rather large history of mobsters and gangsters - was there ever a big time spot where "gambling" went on?? any place near a famous park or any streets named after any reknown thugs who ran these places?

thinking out loud here

fwiw...this afternoon I should be hangin' out at como...noon til like 430ish..

if I'm not where you think i'd be...I'll be in blackbear having coffee and noodling...

will see you there @ about 1230 or 1

Randy, Raaaaaandy Rust king of the mock hunt frontier.

I'll see you foo's out there.

I'm convinced its stanford...

I think I'm actually going to be in that area today. Possibly I'll stop by and say Hi.

his tagline not my words....

I'm a very fortunate woman. I've multiple pussys!

 

AW will be good to see you!!

hmmm...

I found another college...and I'm not telling!!!
ha...

hmmm...

I found another college...and I'm not telling!!!
ha...

for later proof that I think I know the right school...

(not a st. paul park so don't look for this photo!!!!)

[Edited by on Mar 10, 2005 at 09:14am.]

AW has agreed that the PP uses CoNO too much and there are so many other parks in the city to choose from. I will give you benefit of the doubt though and see if I can fit the clues thus far to CoNO....

DONT YOU KNOW THAT IT IS TRADITION TO FIT EVERY CLUE TO CONO ANYHOW

[Edited by on Mar 10, 2005 at 09:45am.]

Alrighty...so its about putting the pieces together.  We have really two sets of information to look through and make sense of: (1) pertinent directional clues to the whereabouts of this treasure and (2) past Winter Carnival moments.  Both are surely important but I think that we need to be able to pull them apart before we can put them together.  If that makes ANY sense.

So, what do we have?

We KNOW that we have to:

• Look for a casino chip that is stuffed into something (Eclipse gum is a GREAT guess).




• Seek unmapped terrain (whether if this means it is NOT in the THG or just in a shaded wooded area, no one knows). 




• Try and "duplicate" the West Picnic ground area at CoNo (south of Triple E).  But does this refer to the 2001 or 2003 hunt...or both?

Me thinks that it is hidden at a park that has, in the recent past, held the puck -- but one that the clues have NOT explicitly mentioned yet (sort of a process of elimination...which there was NONE of during the Crosby hunt).  I think that if we could nail down that educational place, we'd be out of the frog pond.  But, here are the locations NOT explicitly mentioned in these clues that have held the puck in the last fifteen years: Merriam, Conway, Cherokee, HI, BC, Highland, Hidden Falls & Langford.  Of them, only Cherokee, Highland & HF have unmapped regions.

but, really, it could be anywhere...

Hey...is the "NEW" Harriet Island printed in the latest THG? If not, this could be unmapped, too...

Come make your bet on the trickiest hunt yet. As you sometimes take not one step, but two.

Have I missed any thoughts on this? One smacked me in the head on the way home from work, and I don't know if it's been mentioned?

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Thank You for putting all that together Spirit! wonderfully put

It will be interesting to see what direction the new clue takes people.

I am sure that it will be interesting for you.  Just remember, eagles are higher on the food chain than rabbbbbits. 

But I have the Queen of Hearts on my side. Off with his head!

I'm thinking the paragraphs are made up of two parts:  part is for a past hunt, part is for this hunt. 

For example, in the first paragraph the first two lines refer to Chair-O-Key (1998); the next two lines to this hunt.

In the second paragraph, the first two lines refer to Phalen (2004), and the second two lines to this hunt.

Third paragraph I'm lost on...I *think* the first two lines are for a previous year's hunt, and the second two for this year's, but not sure.

Fourth paragraph the second two lines refer to Newell (2000), and the first two lines to this year's hunt.

Fifth paragraph the first two lines refer to CoNo (2001) and the second two lines to this year's hunt.

 

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OOOOOHHH.  You got me! Right back into my place I go. :)

Green...we are thinking the same.

So...which years are missing? I think that may be just as important as which ones are there!

So, does this mean anything?

You’ll be all set and not have to get wet
If the same, only different is what you do.

To be treasure bound, search on the ground
And score a payday if you make a field goal

And in the park a moment of dark
Will hold the way to keep score

The spinning roulette wheel is a hint to the deal
As is a famous west coast educational place

Look south of Crosby’s gate and you’ll do simply great
If you find you can roughly duplicate this scene.

Years we have, in order, are

1998

2004

?

2000

2001

WHOA!  I'm thinking like the spirit!  COOLER!  There may be hope for me yet!

you actually may be onto something there Green

So...Conway & Merriam are the ones missing from immediate history.  Both, however, ARE mapped.  DOH!  

Me?  ME?!!!

I think you're mistaken.

"WOODROW" WILSON!!!!  (Trees in a line.)  That will be my [prolly] only correct noodle, ever.

The snow comes. The snow melts. Looks like there won't be a lot of digging involved.

What kind'a pattern - like Ian said - do the four we have make, on a map?  Are they starting to circle anything?

In order, we'd have..  Chair-o-Kee 1998, (Conway missing 1999), Newell 2000, CoNo 2001, (Marry'um missing 2002), (Missing CoNo 2003), Phalen 2004.

Does that mean anything?