hunt them rite, hunt the merit, hurt men tithe, rum hint teeth, their hunt met, and the new slogan for the cooler crew, or at least this years hunt....
THEM HUNT RITE!!!!!!!!!!!(I added the exclamation marks)
It reminds me of a redneck explaining the cooler crew, and it just fits(not the redneck part). plus, a word is spelled rong, but it sounds rite, which is how we right when we have so much to say and very little time. (right after a clue comes out)
ahhh, its not going to be at mounds, in 87, their were like lawsuits man. it was horrible. they wont go back. (less something goes goofy). mmmm, park crusing eh,,,,,i should cruse out the new harriet island. just to see how it looks and whatnot.
Well, I am on my second tobacco free day, and feeling a little crabby myself... anyways, to answer tim's question, usually I hunt alone. Not because of any particular ethic, but because I usually hunt in whatever spare time I have--during lunch, after work, or sometimes at midnight. It's just easier. And, if they close out this board before Sunday, this may be my coolest JOE ever!!!
Just to reiterate an earlier stated point to those of you who have this "Mounds issue"...It will not ever be at Mounds again. It doesnt matter if you people have been digging there for the last couple years and havent ruined the Mounds, they're are not going to risk it again. The Mounds were destroyed one year... and a few Mounds nuts in there digging is a little different than several hundred in there if the medallion's hiding place were discovered to be there. So please, enough on this. There I have said my bit and I feel damn good about it!
mounds- no one knows for sure. I don't think they'll risk it, but if the clues point there, I will go. ruling out places will have us at an auto-disadvantage.
Well, sometimes you feel like a nut, somtimes you don't. The medallion is somtimes referred to as treasure or loot. Mob slang for a lot of loot is "a nut" or "the nut". Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don't. Therfore the medallion will never be in Mounds.
Bee's BOCK! Yes, I'll check here, and post, feel like I've drop off the earth since the very first keystrokes (#50? No Joes back then...). Yes, I'm alive all, and I feel the need to dig! Cheers, AIAB, we need to kick it up a notch like the old days, no?
Ter, would *I* ever take the Lord's name in vain? Moi? Shirley, you don't really think *I* wrote The Digger's Prayer and The Digger's Psalm???? ME??? Shirley, you jest. Wait! You're not Shirley, you're Terry! (What the h@ll does Shirley have to do with anything????)
BEE!!!! Izzit REALLY you? Can it really bee Bee? Well, I'll bee!
The Almond Joy/Mounds was the best noodling I've read in a LONG time! DDave, you're an AJ for quiting smoking right before The Hunt. SHEESH! Man, I don't know if you're a saint or truly certifiable! Caffine and nicotine are my drugs o'choice and just about all I live on for 12 days in January. I lost like 10 lbs in '98.
We got the "Otay!" to film/stills at McGovern's. So, not only is Sat nite (three more wake ups... three more wake up...) a go, but so is Tues nite. Time? I'm not sure of. I'd say definitely after dark, tho.
Yust got the word, we can be in the Torchlight Parade... AND...
We'll have our own banner that says, "Water Cooler Crew"!!!
I *think* they want us/we may be in the Grand Day parade, too, but I'm not really sure and I'm checking that out. Lettuce say the Grand Day parade is also a do, is there anyone that would leave Digging to be in it????
Lets get this thing on! Wow its kinda just hittin me that in less than a week our lives will all be turned upside down for a week plus. I can't wait.
DD, use your nicotine induced cravings to dig harder & focus on the concept that there might be a pack of smokes at the bottom of the pile of snow.
The temps starting to chill a little more again, now if we can only get another coating or two of white stuff I will be right back in my element. I believe that this year if we can get it a lot colder & yuckier out there the CC has a better chance of finding the medallion, since we are all crazy enough to actually be out digging in the crappiest of crappy weather and that tends to keep the johnny-come-latelies home.
Terry use the anagram server on your name, there are some interesting anagrams for it.
Is anyone else doing the schell hunt on February 24th, after just my first bockfest last year I cannot wait for this years hunts.
Shovler, I'm sure there's somebuddy that will be Schelling it again this year. I hope to...
And you're right about us digging in bad weather! Nothing stays us from looking for The Med!
(three more Wake Ups... three more Wake Ups...)
Otay! Here's what we've got: We can be in the Torchlight Parade. They don't want to take us away from our digging to be in the Grand Day parade. I'll email details to those I've addresses for and then give out the info Sat night at McGovern's so those I don't have an email address for can have the info, too. Those I email it to, if you see someone missing and you've their email address - send it on!!!
A die hard medallion hunter passes on and goes to heaven right before the start of a hunt. When the hunter gets to heaven, they ask "Where will the medallion be hidden this year?" God replies "Well, I have a theory on that."
I wonder when they hide it?? Has it been lying in the snow for a month now lonely and cold, ... or will there be a car cruising the park tonight, slowly circling to be sure no one is watching... perhaps they have a dog with them to not look suspicious.. A spotter is staying in the car to make sure the cost is clear... as someone kicks the snow with their boot... bends over, appearing to be cleaning up some dog doo doo and slyly places a small object in its snowy hiding place... where it is quietly waiting to be found.... The hider slowly walks back to their car, ,... paranoid that someone has seen them... The hider lights a smoke by their car trying to appear casual, but they can't resist glancing at the hiding place, making sure no one saw them... They drive away only to circle back and make sure no one is investigating the site...
didn't quite blow coke all over my computer (might have helped if i had some to blow), but it was good nonetheless.
nd, i've often wondered about that. it would be somewhat embarassing to put the medallion out at, say, christmas time, only to have the snow completely melt in january, revealing the earmuff/snuff can/playing card box.
Just a quick pop into the cooler. I can wait for the hunt to begin. Have to go out tonight to buy AND REGISTER my button. Can't wait until Monday AM when the real clue with working info. comes out. The hunt adds sun to my days when there isn't any sun. Will be lots of digging this year. Lots of snow to move around which makes the hunt more fun. Can't wait!!!
hey everyone! another year of intense treasure hunting huh? well, for those of you who dont remember, i'm the one with the www.medallionhunt.8m.com website. This year will be another great year, and the new site will be up shortly. I am looking for people who are willing to write storys, funny or sad, on what experiences they have had during the medallion hunts in the days gone by. Anyway, email me at ddavis@horizonmediaonline.8m.com
Leelabell, the same park as 50 years ago idea is just one o'many. Ittiz very credible to those that hold to that belief! And ittiz not credible to those that don't!
You guys, you're NEVER going to believe this... But I cabbaged on to a GREEN pair o'ski pants! YES! Can you believe it? Hope my luck holds when it comes to finding The Med!
I have a list of 8 parks its likely to be in. 50 years ago (well, 49 actually) it was in Highland, and Highland is on that list. However, that almost makes me think its NOT going to be there. It seems to me, rather than try to use a place that would have some significance attached, they actually try to avoid any such thing so as to not tip their hand. I'm still saying Hidden Falls.
I think the medallion has been hidden for awhile now. I kinda figured it went out during that 8 inch snowfall at the end of December...but no one really knows.
Allison - I disagree with your assessment of last year's clues. It got folks to the right park - although so many were hesitant to believe it to be Newell - and it was found relatively early into the hunt. The clues were okay - ittiz the way we might interpret them that makes them interesting and difficult. I don't remember a year yet that when the explanations came out, that I didn't moan at the explanation for at least one of them - and the years that we weren't at the right park - well....those were real groaners.
I'm looking forward to the noodling and stretching and the lightbulbs going off when we figure them out. It's really part of the fun that keeps feeding this obsession.
Hi guys this is my first time in to cooler... have be hunting this thing with my best friend for the last 20 years.. Hope one of the cooler crew gets lucky this year... Is the party on Sat for eve treasure hunter... good luck gang
Well I wouldn't agree and say they were bad clues, but I felt that last year's clue #5 was just too easy to be Newell. Of course I stood about 10 feet from where the medallion was eventually found and thought to myself "nahhh, not there" so go figure!
Anyway the idea of "too easy" got me looking at the past 20 years worth of clues and explanations (from the Cooler Crew Website) looking for what the first 5 clues had to say and what really is "too easy" and here are some interesting (or not) numbers:
# of times the "blanket" clue has indicated Ramsey County: 8 # of times the "blanket" clue has indicated St. Paul: 10 (including the last 5 years) # of times the "blanket" clue has indicated neither: 3 (94, 89, 80)
# of times the specific park was indicated by a clue: 2 Clue #4: 1 (97) Clue #5: 1 (94)
# of times a park with a golf course has been excluded: 2 (00, 99)
# of times a specific park(s) has been excluded my means other than not a golf-course: 3 Clue #1: 1 (86) Clue #4: 1 (97) Clue #5: 1 (96)
# of times a street near the park is indicated: 6 Clue #1: 1 (93) Clue #4: 1 (94) Clue #5: 4 (00, 98, 97, 82)
# of times a directional area in the city or county was indicated: 2 (97, 84)
# of times an activity available in the park (skiing, sledding, horseshoes, etc.) is mentioned: 10 Clue #2: 3 (99, 90 87) Clue #3: 2 (98, 80) Clue #4: 3 (00, 91, 82) Clue #5: 2 (93, 80)
# of times what the medallion is in is mentioned: 18 Clue #1: 2 (95,89) Clue #2: 6 (00, 97, 96, 92, 91, 83) Clue #3: 6 (94, 93, 88, 86, 84, 82) Clue #4: 4 (00, 95, 91, 82) Clue #5: 2 (93,80)
# of times landmarks around the park are mentioned: 25 Clue #1: 1 (92) Clue #2: 2 (98, 84) Clue #3: 9 (00, 99, 96, 95, 92, 91, 89, 87, 81) Clue #4: 4 (98, 93, 92, 85) Clue #5: 9 (99, 98, 95, 92, 91, 88, 8, 85, 83)
# of times landmarks in the park are mentioned: 26 Clue #1: 1 (91) Clue #2: 7 (99, 92, 91, 90, 88, 87, 85, 84) Clue #3: 3 (97, 95, 90) Clue #4: 8 (00, 96, 89, 88, 87, 86, 81, 80) Clue #5: 6 (97, 93, 92, 90, 89, 86)
# of times another event held in the park was mentioned: 1 Clue #2: 1 (89 Taste of MN at the Capitol Grounds)
Now assuming that early on in the hunt a "meaningful" clue is one that helps narrow it to a park, specifically one that a) indicates a park by name or b) excludes a park by name or other means or c) indicates a street near the park, and not one that talks about landmarks in the park or near it as there are so many possible interpretations, then:
A) 12 of 20 times a "meaningful" clue has been mentioned in the first 5 over the past 20 years or 60% of the time. (So maybe last year wasn't "too easy", it happens about 1/2 the time, of course street names only happen 6/20 or 30%, but that is okay for this argument)
and
B) There was only a 1 in 5 chance in the each of those years (except 00 which had 2) that of the first 5 clues a particular clue was the "meaningful" clue!
So that means we have about a 60% chance of having a 20% chance of noodling the correct clue in the first 5 to get us to the right park!
Don't know if anyone cares about that or not, but it kept me busy in the past couple of "pre-hunt" days so I thought I'd share! I'm just glad I've got you people to steal from! :)
Hey, gang. I bought my buttons tonight on my way home. $3.20 a piece this year and my stamps will be on them for tomorrow's mail. FYI: buttons must be registered by Jan. 25. Can't wait until Sat. 12 midnight. Unfortunately, I have an office party I have to be at but I'll be logging on as soon as I'm home.
Bee!!! Glad you stopped by! Please let us know if you're gonna hunt????
I'm LMAO reading all of the prior posts! This crew sure gets really funny, at pre-hunt time!
And once the first clue comes out . . . . we get glazed-over eyes, no sleep, irritable, itchy, witchy, and we stay that way for at least 7 days. At which time we all chime "ain't that dang thing found yet?"
We look forward to someone (hopefully the crew this year) finally locating the medallion. Because once it's found, we know that we can really go home to our beds. Sleep, sleep, sleep! It's almost a relief! And when we get our internal clocks to work for us again . . . . . we look forward to next years hunt!
hey, way to give up smoking, but this has got to be the worst time to do it. i agree, it wont be at mounds ever again, unless something was to make the mounds no longer an issue, like if they fell off the cliff, but that wont happen for a few million years. so not EVER, but not in our lives
That's some good work Bax-Man. Two comments though. One, there is more than one interpretation out there, and we may not know until it happens, but I believe the mention of the golf course in the last two years wasn't meant to exclude a park with a golf course. Rather I believe it means to say "The park with the medallion may or may not have a golf course, but if it does have a golf course, its not going to be on the course itself."
As for last year, the thing that gave it away to me (if only I would have listened to myself!) was clue 4 in which they alluded to (multiple) picnic shelters. Only three parks have more than one and two of those (Como and Cherokee) had been used in the previous few years which only left Newell. Now whereas Newell was found on clue 7, Conway was still pretty much virgin snow on 7.
yeah, rush, but there are only 2 of those that have anything remotely resembling a meaning.
I got good ones(using tim the hunter)
hunt them rite, hunt the merit, hurt men tithe, rum hint teeth, their hunt met, and the new slogan for the cooler crew, or at least this years hunt....
THEM HUNT RITE!!!!!!!!!!!(I added the exclamation marks)
you da man tim
I try.
double JOE!!!!!
It reminds me of a redneck explaining the cooler crew, and it just fits(not the redneck part). plus, a word is spelled rong, but it sounds rite, which is how we right when we have so much to say and very little time. (right after a clue comes out)
Ares, if you go to my club (which I figured out you're in now) its on the links page along with some other useful sites.
You'll always be Hush Rarely to me!!!LOL!
yep, a.w., that's the real name i hide behind. i've got a few alter-egos out there. thanks for the link.
ahhh, its not going to be at mounds, in 87, their were like lawsuits man. it was horrible. they wont go back. (less something goes goofy). mmmm, park crusing eh,,,,,i should cruse out the new harriet island. just to see how it looks and whatnot.
Well, I am on my second tobacco free day, and feeling a little crabby myself... anyways, to answer tim's question, usually I hunt alone. Not because of any particular ethic, but because I usually hunt in whatever spare time I have--during lunch, after work, or sometimes at midnight. It's just easier. And, if they close out this board before Sunday, this may be my coolest JOE ever!!!
Going tobacco free this close to the HUNT?! You have my support, DD - Hope you make it!
Good Evening!
DDave - Good luck with that!
Green - Did you write that stuff? I printed it out and am taking it to work. They think I'm nutz - and now I have proof I'm not the only one.
Hi Mom!
Allison - sorry you're a bit unhappy too.
I think the best medicine is to get those clues out here for us to noodle.
Hi all! So is everyone ready?
Just to reiterate an earlier stated point to those of you who have this "Mounds issue"...It will not ever be at Mounds again. It doesnt matter if you people have been digging there for the last couple years and havent ruined the Mounds, they're are not going to risk it again. The Mounds were destroyed one year... and a few Mounds nuts in there digging is a little different than several hundred in there if the medallion's hiding place were discovered to be there. So please, enough on this. There I have said my bit and I feel damn good about it!
mounds- no one knows for sure. I don't think they'll risk it, but if the clues point there, I will go. ruling out places will have us at an auto-disadvantage.
I certainly am not going to eliminate a park in St. Paul until the clues lead us to wherever it is.
Well, sometimes you feel like a nut, somtimes you don't. The medallion is somtimes referred to as treasure or loot. Mob slang for a lot of loot is "a nut" or "the nut". Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don't. Therfore the medallion will never be in Mounds.
Now *that* is clever!
think if they do decide to put it at MOUNDS it will be a year its found semi-early,not a to the last day dig.So it wont be there this year
Frog Pond...thass all I gotta say, thasss it. Ittiz gotta bee...
I dont know about anybody else, but I have been digging in Marydale park since the first snow.
Bee's BOCK! Yes, I'll check here, and post, feel like I've drop off the earth since the very first keystrokes (#50? No Joes back then...). Yes, I'm alive all, and I feel the need to dig! Cheers, AIAB, we need to kick it up a notch like the old days, no?
dd, you've got way too much time on your hands. i like the theory though. kinda goes along with the mob history of st. paul, too.
Three more Wake Ups...
tick.....tick......tick......tick.........tick
Ter, would *I* ever take the Lord's name in vain? Moi? Shirley, you don't really think *I* wrote The Digger's Prayer and The Digger's Psalm???? ME??? Shirley, you jest. Wait! You're not Shirley, you're Terry! (What the h@ll does Shirley have to do with anything????)
BEE!!!! Izzit REALLY you? Can it really bee Bee? Well, I'll bee!
The Almond Joy/Mounds was the best noodling I've read in a LONG time! DDave, you're an AJ for quiting smoking right before The Hunt. SHEESH! Man, I don't know if you're a saint or truly certifiable! Caffine and nicotine are my drugs o'choice and just about all I live on for 12 days in January. I lost like 10 lbs in '98.
We got the "Otay!" to film/stills at McGovern's. So, not only is Sat nite (three more wake ups... three more wake up...) a go, but so is Tues nite. Time? I'm not sure of. I'd say definitely after dark, tho.
Yust got the word, we can be in the Torchlight Parade... AND...
We'll have our own banner that says, "Water Cooler Crew"!!!
I *think* they want us/we may be in the Grand Day parade, too, but I'm not really sure and I'm checking that out. Lettuce say the Grand Day parade is also a do, is there anyone that would leave Digging to be in it????
Three more Wake Ups... Three more Wake Ups...
Lets get this thing on! Wow its kinda just hittin me that in less than a week our lives will all be turned upside down for a week plus. I can't wait.
DD, use your nicotine induced cravings to dig harder & focus on the concept that there might be a pack of smokes at the bottom of the pile of snow.
The temps starting to chill a little more again, now if we can only get another coating or two of white stuff I will be right back in my element. I believe that this year if we can get it a lot colder & yuckier out there the CC has a better chance of finding the medallion, since we are all crazy enough to actually be out digging in the crappiest of crappy weather and that tends to keep the johnny-come-latelies home.
Terry use the anagram server on your name, there are some interesting anagrams for it.
Is anyone else doing the schell hunt on February 24th, after just my first bockfest last year I cannot wait for this years hunts.
Shovler, I'm sure there's somebuddy that will be Schelling it again this year. I hope to...
And you're right about us digging in bad weather! Nothing stays us from looking for The Med!
(three more Wake Ups... three more Wake Ups...)
Otay! Here's what we've got: We can be in the Torchlight Parade. They don't want to take us away from our digging to be in the Grand Day parade. I'll email details to those I've addresses for and then give out the info Sat night at McGovern's so those I don't have an email address for can have the info, too. Those I email it to, if you see someone missing and you've their email address - send it on!!!
A die hard medallion hunter passes on and goes to heaven right before the start of a hunt. When the hunter gets to heaven, they ask "Where will the medallion be hidden this year?" God replies "Well, I have a theory on that."
I wonder when they hide it?? Has it been lying in the snow for a month now lonely and cold, ... or will there be a car cruising the park tonight, slowly circling to be sure no one is watching... perhaps they have a dog with them to not look suspicious.. A spotter is staying in the car to make sure the cost is clear... as someone kicks the snow with their boot... bends over, appearing to be cleaning up some dog doo doo and slyly places a small object in its snowy hiding place... where it is quietly waiting to be found.... The hider slowly walks back to their car, ,... paranoid that someone has seen them... The hider lights a smoke by their car trying to appear casual, but they can't resist glancing at the hiding place, making sure no one saw them... They drive away only to circle back and make sure no one is investigating the site...
New Daddy, I'll be over Fri AM!
Joe!
didn't quite blow coke all over my computer (might have helped if i had some to blow), but it was good nonetheless.
nd, i've often wondered about that. it would be somewhat embarassing to put the medallion out at, say, christmas time, only to have the snow completely melt in january, revealing the earmuff/snuff can/playing card box.
Just a quick pop into the cooler. I can wait for the hunt to begin. Have to go out tonight to buy AND REGISTER my button. Can't wait until Monday AM when the real clue with working info. comes out. The hunt adds sun to my days when there isn't any sun. Will be lots of digging this year. Lots of snow to move around which makes the hunt more fun. Can't wait!!!
Hi all - am looking forward to this year's hunt. Any credibility to the theory that it will be posted in the same park it was posted 50 years ago?
hey everyone! another year of intense treasure hunting huh? well, for those of you who dont remember, i'm the one with the www.medallionhunt.8m.com website. This year will be another great year, and the new site will be up shortly. I am looking for people who are willing to write storys, funny or sad, on what experiences they have had during the medallion hunts in the days gone by. Anyway, email me at ddavis@horizonmediaonline.8m.com
Hello, Treasure Digger!
Leelabell, the same park as 50 years ago idea is just one o'many. Ittiz very credible to those that hold to that belief! And ittiz not credible to those that don't!
You guys, you're NEVER going to believe this... But I cabbaged on to a GREEN pair o'ski pants! YES! Can you believe it? Hope my luck holds when it comes to finding The Med!
Got it! You can delete!
I have a list of 8 parks its likely to be in. 50 years ago (well, 49 actually) it was in Highland, and Highland is on that list. However, that almost makes me think its NOT going to be there. It seems to me, rather than try to use a place that would have some significance attached, they actually try to avoid any such thing so as to not tip their hand. I'm still saying Hidden Falls.
Just reread last year's clues and their meanings. Boy were they bad. I really hope someone else is doing it this year.
Good Afternoon!
I think the medallion has been hidden for awhile now. I kinda figured it went out during that 8 inch snowfall at the end of December...but no one really knows.
Allison - I disagree with your assessment of last year's clues. It got folks to the right park - although so many were hesitant to believe it to be Newell - and it was found relatively early into the hunt. The clues were okay - ittiz the way we might interpret them that makes them interesting and difficult. I don't remember a year yet that when the explanations came out, that I didn't moan at the explanation for at least one of them - and the years that we weren't at the right park - well....those were real groaners.
I'm looking forward to the noodling and stretching and the lightbulbs going off when we figure them out. It's really part of the fun that keeps feeding this obsession.
Hi guys this is my first time in to cooler... have be hunting this thing with my best friend for the last 20 years.. Hope one of the cooler crew gets lucky this year... Is the party on Sat for eve treasure hunter... good luck gang
Well I wouldn't agree and say they were bad clues, but I felt that last year's clue #5 was just too easy to be Newell. Of course I stood about 10 feet from where the medallion was eventually found and thought to myself "nahhh, not there" so go figure!
Anyway the idea of "too easy" got me looking at the past 20 years worth of clues and explanations (from the Cooler Crew Website) looking for what the first 5 clues had to say and what really is "too easy" and here are some interesting (or not) numbers:
# of times the "blanket" clue has indicated Ramsey County: 8 # of times the "blanket" clue has indicated St. Paul: 10 (including the last 5 years) # of times the "blanket" clue has indicated neither: 3 (94, 89, 80)
# of times the specific park was indicated by a clue: 2 Clue #4: 1 (97) Clue #5: 1 (94)
# of times a park with a golf course has been excluded: 2 (00, 99)
# of times a specific park(s) has been excluded my means other than not a golf-course: 3 Clue #1: 1 (86) Clue #4: 1 (97) Clue #5: 1 (96)
# of times a street near the park is indicated: 6 Clue #1: 1 (93) Clue #4: 1 (94) Clue #5: 4 (00, 98, 97, 82)
# of times a directional area in the city or county was indicated: 2 (97, 84)
# of times an activity available in the park (skiing, sledding, horseshoes, etc.) is mentioned: 10 Clue #2: 3 (99, 90 87) Clue #3: 2 (98, 80) Clue #4: 3 (00, 91, 82) Clue #5: 2 (93, 80)
# of times what the medallion is in is mentioned: 18 Clue #1: 2 (95,89) Clue #2: 6 (00, 97, 96, 92, 91, 83) Clue #3: 6 (94, 93, 88, 86, 84, 82) Clue #4: 4 (00, 95, 91, 82) Clue #5: 2 (93,80)
# of times landmarks around the park are mentioned: 25 Clue #1: 1 (92) Clue #2: 2 (98, 84) Clue #3: 9 (00, 99, 96, 95, 92, 91, 89, 87, 81) Clue #4: 4 (98, 93, 92, 85) Clue #5: 9 (99, 98, 95, 92, 91, 88, 8, 85, 83)
# of times landmarks in the park are mentioned: 26 Clue #1: 1 (91) Clue #2: 7 (99, 92, 91, 90, 88, 87, 85, 84) Clue #3: 3 (97, 95, 90) Clue #4: 8 (00, 96, 89, 88, 87, 86, 81, 80) Clue #5: 6 (97, 93, 92, 90, 89, 86)
# of times another event held in the park was mentioned: 1 Clue #2: 1 (89 Taste of MN at the Capitol Grounds)
Now assuming that early on in the hunt a "meaningful" clue is one that helps narrow it to a park, specifically one that a) indicates a park by name or b) excludes a park by name or other means or c) indicates a street near the park, and not one that talks about landmarks in the park or near it as there are so many possible interpretations, then:
A) 12 of 20 times a "meaningful" clue has been mentioned in the first 5 over the past 20 years or 60% of the time. (So maybe last year wasn't "too easy", it happens about 1/2 the time, of course street names only happen 6/20 or 30%, but that is okay for this argument)
and
B) There was only a 1 in 5 chance in the each of those years (except 00 which had 2) that of the first 5 clues a particular clue was the "meaningful" clue!
So that means we have about a 60% chance of having a 20% chance of noodling the correct clue in the first 5 to get us to the right park!
Don't know if anyone cares about that or not, but it kept me busy in the past couple of "pre-hunt" days so I thought I'd share! I'm just glad I've got you people to steal from! :)
Hello to vikki and Bax-Man 72! Goodluck in the hunt.
Bax-I love the way you think! Thanx for the interesting stats.
Hey, gang. I bought my buttons tonight on my way home. $3.20 a piece this year and my stamps will be on them for tomorrow's mail. FYI: buttons must be registered by Jan. 25. Can't wait until Sat. 12 midnight. Unfortunately, I have an office party I have to be at but I'll be logging on as soon as I'm home.
hey como park is where it's at
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Bee!!! Glad you stopped by! Please let us know if you're gonna hunt????
I'm LMAO reading all of the prior posts! This crew sure gets really funny, at pre-hunt time!
And once the first clue comes out . . . . we get glazed-over eyes, no sleep, irritable, itchy, witchy, and we stay that way for at least 7 days. At which time we all chime "ain't that dang thing found yet?"
We look forward to someone (hopefully the crew this year) finally locating the medallion. Because once it's found, we know that we can really go home to our beds. Sleep, sleep, sleep! It's almost a relief! And when we get our internal clocks to work for us again . . . . . we look forward to next years hunt!
Oh well!
hey, way to give up smoking, but this has got to be the worst time to do it. i agree, it wont be at mounds ever again, unless something was to make the mounds no longer an issue, like if they fell off the cliff, but that wont happen for a few million years. so not EVER, but not in our lives
I don't care where they put it!!! I just want to be digging and noodling!!!!!!
That's some good work Bax-Man. Two comments though. One, there is more than one interpretation out there, and we may not know until it happens, but I believe the mention of the golf course in the last two years wasn't meant to exclude a park with a golf course. Rather I believe it means to say "The park with the medallion may or may not have a golf course, but if it does have a golf course, its not going to be on the course itself."
As for last year, the thing that gave it away to me (if only I would have listened to myself!) was clue 4 in which they alluded to (multiple) picnic shelters. Only three parks have more than one and two of those (Como and Cherokee) had been used in the previous few years which only left Newell. Now whereas Newell was found on clue 7, Conway was still pretty much virgin snow on 7.