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2024 Woodbury Days Medallion Hunt

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The 2024 Woodbury Days medallion hunt is on and the prize is bigger thanks to the Woodbury Lions

The lucky finder of the medallion will receive a $1000 cash prize if the finder has a Woodbury Days Button of Savings or a $500 prize without the button.

Get the 2024 Medallion Hunt clues starting August 15 on our YouTube channel or Facebook pages.

Sponsored by the Woodbury Lions Club

2024 Woodbury Days Finders
Hunt Information
Dates
Scheduled Dates
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Find Date
Friday, August 23, 2024
Finders
Name
Skylar Sanftner
Name
Coldest Hunter
Name
Ed Brodie
Name
Mike Nowak
Prize
Maximum Prize
$1000
Awarded Prize
$1000
Location
General Location
Tamarack Nature Preserve
Pinpointed Location
By the steps leading into the preserve near the Valley Creek Professional Building
Concealer
In the shrubs and bushes

44.92142, -92.938263

Clues
Clue 1
Published Date
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 6:30 PM

The prize is set
And it's time again
You can bet
You'll get out of your pen

Thanks again to the city
And the Lions Club local
Environment so pretty
And medallion hunters vocal!

For a year, we've not been Biden our time
We've not been alone
We've been hiking around the sublime
Our Harr is razing in construction zone

Get into the park
STAY OUT of the road
This election will bark
Trump this hunt! - you'll win a load

The Vance is thrown
The gauntlet is down
It's time to scour the town
Claim a hunt of your own!

The official meaning of the clue.
  • The medallion was hidden in a park before the first clue.
  • Acknowledges the city, the Lions, and the medallion hunters' participation.
  • References the presidential theme that will run throughout the clues.
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Clue 2
Published Date
Friday, August 16, 2024, 6:30 PM

From the window to the Walz
Or maybe you're kinda weird
Big crowds and curtain calls
Be a medallion hunt nerd

The official meaning of the clue.
  • From a window you can see a wall, near which the medallion is hidden.
  • Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gets his own clue, based on his stature as the third vice presidential nominee from our state.
    • Also, it's fun to use his viral quotes and hashtags in the clues
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Clue 3
Published Date
Saturday, August 17, 2024, 6:30 PM

Polk took military steps of expansion
Larger and larger we grew
Stretched us to Pacific Ocean
California, Oregon and Mexico too

The official meaning of the clue.

James K. Polk was an expansionist President, and the medallion was hidden in an expansive park; however, the word "steps' is the key here to indicate the steps near which the medallion is hidden.

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Clue 4
Published Date
Sunday, August 18, 2024, 6:30 PM

This next President, certainly a tall tree,
Oversaw our dark time from his Presidential perch
He read a proclamation at war's end in 1863
And took us down a woodchipped path lined with birch

The official meaning of the clue.
  • President Abraham Lincoln approved a mass hanging, a horrible consequence of the U.S.-Dakota War that was waged in Minnesota and beyond.
  • The allusion to the President's height also points to the very tall stand of birch trees along a wood chipped path by the medallion's hiding place.
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Clue 5
Published Date
Monday, August 19, 2024, 6:30 PM

Enter the race if you deer
Hit the ground running
The Buck stops here! Yes, you are near!
Throughout the hunt please continue funning!

The official meaning of the clue.
  • Harry S Truman said the famous line, but this clue points to a park that is home to deer.
  • The animal might also make people think of the logo of a nearby coffee shop.
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Clue 6
Published Date
Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 6:30 PM

Some say he was unapologetically lib
Others called him a slippery snake
Bring the medallion to your crib
And all the riches you will take

The official meaning of the clue.

A nod to Bill Clinton, this clue points out that snakes can be found in the park where the medallion is hidden.

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Clue 7
Published Date
Wednesday, August 21, 2024, 6:30 PM

No "Old Tippecanoe" in this pond
So many turtles are a resident
With the nation he did bond
Before dying in office as President

The official meaning of the clue.
  • The clue is meant to honor William Henry Harrison while drawing hunters away from the Native American themed parks in Woodbury.
  • It also points out that the park containing the medallion is home to a pond full of turtles.
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Clue 8
Published Date
Thursday, August 22, 2024, 6:30 PM

He kept up the Vietnam fighes
She was a Bird and also a Lady
He campaigned on civil rights
We enjoyed his Great Society

The official meaning of the clue.

Dedicated to LBJ and his first lady, Ladybird, this clue points to the bird sanctuary within the park where the medallion was hidden.

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Clue 9
Published Date
Friday, August 23, 2024, 6:30 PM

Republicans and Democrats invoke his name
For cutting taxes while defending homeland
All you howling coyotes came!
Always railing on Communist plans

The official meaning of the clue.

With props to Ronald Reagan, this clue indicates to search where coyotes live, and also where there is a "red" railing.

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Clue 10

Last clue! "Our nightmare is over!"
I hope you weren't bored
Did you use a 4-leaf clover?
This clue is dedicated to Gerald Ford

Peek out your window at Spine of Woodbury
Venture behind the coffee shop
Down the stairs to foliage hairy
Five or so feet in, then stop!

The official meaning of the clue.
  • Gerald Ford famously said "our long national nightmare is over" -- just like this hunt is also over.
  • The medallion is hidden in view of an office window of MN Spine, just a building away from Caribou Coffee.
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