2006 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt

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forever it seems. My profile is on Cooler times. Check the link for meet the crew

I have been hunting for nine years now. I look forward to this every year!

Is it okay to call you Bud. I'm a lazy keyboarder sometimes.

See those two numbers next to your name - or that of another poster?

The first number is a link that will refresh the board from that point forward.

Thanks!

You can click on someones name or pic to send a private mesage

you look so...thoughtful. So in-tune to the meanings of the clues :goofy:

Bud, this is my eighth hunt. My first hunt was in 98 after I moved hear from Chicago. I was instantly addicted.

Bud I started during the last time at Como.

Minnesota transplant here :smile:

which two letters. I see more then two letters next to my name but i cant click on them

I'm trying to get "inside" the Nut Goodie. All paths to the medallion lead through the Nut Goodie.

The number before the #

I wish there was a thread (well, I don't really wish for there to be ANOTHER one) that just posts all the clues together, like last year. Sure, it's all well and fine to have a thread for each clue, but I want to see them all together. Do we already have one of those?

No. We should though.

cool, thanks alot. So what does everyone think as of right now? Is everyone confident about the nut goodie thing or do you have another theory?

nut goody seems to be the way

Becksie - I think that's doable. Thanks for the suggestion.

But whoever puts that up - I would prefer it not go in the header here. That makes the header too big and cumbersome to have to keep scrolling through.

I'm hoping it's exactly as it looks. Simple clue to tell us what it's in.

I think we're in for some what of a roller coaster ride though.

I'd like it in its own folder that no one can post to

Nut Goodie has to be it. I have read some of the other theories, but none seem to fit exactly.

Right now I think the Nut Goodie theory is pretty solid. However, after a couple more clues and some serious sleep deficit, I'll probably have worked out eight different hair-brained ideas.

It's snowing!

I live in st. cloud and have to drive an hour to hunt. I dont mind though because i love the thrill of the hunt. I make it out there 5-7 times every hunt. Gas hurts but if i win it worth it. Even if i dont it was still a good time and a good memory!

aint that the truth.

I gotta get ready and head out to Great Waters. Hope to see some of ya there!

Yes, that would be divine! It's almost sacred, ya know

JOE!!!!!!!!!!!!

joe stealer

I have to go play basketball. I'll be back around 11 PM. Have a great night everyone.

whoa...someone else looks deep in thought!

Have fun Mikey and say howdy!

This year, with no time off coming, I'm afraid I'll not be getting out much during the week...but this weekend should be wide open.

thats funny my last name is devine. to find it would be divine.

Have fun evildoer. See ya later.

Bud - Do you know someone that lives in Pine City with that same name?

Thanks! I always miss 'em! :sheepish:

No, i dont know anyone in Pine city. Has anyone been out to any parks yet? hows the snow? Is there a lot of it?

I was at Marydale today. It had a respectable amount of both snow and ice...but I only found a Reese's wrapper :frown:

plan to go out wensday. Its the first chance that i will get to drive out there.

I also went checking parks - mostly for snow cover after work this evening. There is not much snow here and what there is, is icy layered. At this point, most of the open areas have some snow cover, but not much.

bud you look familiar - is that you in the picture?

night all

baddie=battle creek?

I liked the Goodie/baddie noodle

whats that noodle

Looks like Eddie VanHalen

That not a baddie means goodie, as in nut goodie

Candy bars were brand new in 1912, when the Pearson's Nut Goodie was born. The technology to temper chocolate to a stable consistency suitable for mass production had first been demonstrated at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; Milton S. Hershey made his very first chocolate bar in 1894, but he didn't go into full-scale production until 1904. The first "composite" chocolate bar--featuring marshmallow, caramel, peanuts, and milk chocolate--was the Goo-Goo Cluster, which debuted just a few months before the Nut Goodie in 1912.

Minneapolis was ideally suited to be a major center for chocolate production--primarily because of its central location on the railroad system and the proximity to production centers of raw materials like beet sugar and milk. The city gave birth to one candy bar after the other, many bearing flippy Jazz Age names that sound poetic now and a little pornographic--in fact, I dare you to read the following list aloud in public: Cherry Mash, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Babies, Chick-O-Stick, Just Juice, Oh Nuts!, Prom Queen, Cold Turkey, Annabelle's Big Hunk, Trojan Twins, Co-Eds, Foxxy, Nic-L-Nut, Long Boy Kraut, Heavenly Hash, Angel's Delight, Long John, Creamy Whipt, Rough Rider, Butter Smack, Cherry Humps. Los Angeles-based Hoffman Candy Company had the temerity to market not only the Habit, but also the unforgettable Chicken Bone. And you thought the modest Nut Roll was suggestive

ROTFLMFAO!!!! :sillygrin: :sillygrin:

do you think it will be in a big park again this year?

OK... just keep this in the back of your heads...

In the past, I have seen clues that I had gotten the park from, but it was not officially a clue about the park. Like the cluewriter has written a Freuidian slip. Know what I mean, the clue points you to a park, but the park isn't to be given away until 3 clues later...

Anyway... I am wondering if snow and ice, enough to suffice could be inadvertantely leading you toward the place where the ice sculptures are this year... Not that I ever want to make too much of the first clue, but if it leads us to greater Ramsey County, untuck it from your memory banks...

O.K., On with the show!!

Do you think they would put the puck in the same park as they do the ice sculptures in?

No, I don't

Every year someone goes trodding through Rice Park looking for the medallion. With all the electric cords, people out enjoying the sculptures, and all that art, why would the PP ever think of hiding it there?!?

Common sense tells ya it won't happen.

Neck is at Como