Four Litchfield students found the hidden Watercade medallion Wednesday morning.
The kids, 10-year-old Sydney McCann, 9-year-old Alexis Hansen, 10-year-old Logan King and 7 -year-old Jack McCann, discovered the medallion in a thicket of pine trees located behind the Fire and Rescue building, near the water tower.
“I feel like Einstein,” said Sydney of her and her friends’ ability to dissect the clues.
Watercade committee member Bob Lawrence, who wrote the medallion hunt clues, said he wanted children to be able to figure out the clues, because he enjoyed participating in a medallion hunt in his hometown as a kid.
“I wanted them to be cryptic, but not so cryptic that you need a Ph.D. to decipher them,” he said, adding, “You don’t want someone to find it on the first day. I was hoping for day four or five.”
Read more about the medallion hunt online next week, and in the July 18 edition of the Independent Review.
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