Pre-Dig Gig

Kickoff at Como Dockside
1160 Lexington Parkway North (Inside, 2nd floor)

Clue 1 release at 6pm

17th Annual Cooler Crew Pre-Dig Gig
Saturday January 17, 2015
Cherokee Tavern
886 Smith Avenue South
West Saint Paul, MN 55118
7pm-close

Due to a little scheduling mixup with Joseph's, this year we will be re-enacting a bit of treasure hunt history and making a one time venture into West St. Paul as we head across Annapolis St. to Casper's Cherokee Tavern (also known as the Cherokee Sirloin Room).  We have a private room reserved there starting at 7pm.  Food will be available in the private room from a limited menu and we'll also have a bar.

The Pre Dig Gig is a great way to start off the hunt and get to meet or reconnect with your fellow hunters.  In addition to eating, drinking, and socializing, we often have park pools, games, music, a group picture, and lots of wild speculation on the meaning of the first clue.  Generally we have over 100 people so it's quite a gathering.  If you're new and worried about getting lost in the crowd, just find a place to sit and ask someone where they think the medallion will be this year and you'll be on your way.

The Original Gabe's By The Park
Approx. 3:00 start, 3:30pm clue release?
991 Lexington Pkwy N
St Paul, MN 55108

Sunday, May 18, 2014
Gabe's By the Park
991 Lexington Parkway
Saint Paul, MN 55108
5:00pm-close

You can take advantage of the event to pay to be a registered hunter.

Monday April 21, 2014
Joseph's Grill (in the banquet room)
140 South Wabasha Street
Saint Paul, MN 55107
5:30pm-close

It seems Easter weekend wasn't going to work out so well for people so we're going to further break tradition and have a 3rd clue release party on Monday night, the 21st. We'll meet at Joseph's where it is $2 taco night starting at 5:30 and release the clue at 6pm. You can still register at the party.

16th Annual Cooler Crew Pre-Dig Gig
Saturday January 18, 2014
Joseph's Grill (in the banquet room)
140 South Wabasha Street
Saint Paul, MN 55107
6pm-close

The 16th annual Cooler Crew Pre-Dig Gig will be once again held at Joseph's Grill, in the banquet room, on Wabasha. It's hard to believe that another cooler year has come and gone already. If "tradition" holds, we'll already have clue 1 from the early editions of the paper, long before its official release. Plus things should be made more interesting this year with Ma Press's announcement that it will be transitioning production of the paper to a contract with the Star Tribune's printing presses.

The Original Gabe's By The Park
Saturday October 19, 2013
5:30 start, 6:00pm clue release
991 Lexington Pkwy N
St Paul, MN 55108

Announcing a new 12 clue hunt brought to you by Diggorius Rex and David Ng

An October Hunt starting next Saturday October 19th.
Bonus - The Finder will get to keep the medallion!
Similar to previous mock hunts, there are two ways to play.

1. Be a registered hunter which costs $10.
   If you are registered and you find it, you will win the whole prize total.
2. Hunt register free which costs nothing.
   If you are non registered and find it, you will win half the prize total.

Kick-off October 19th, 2013
The Original Gabe's By The Park
Approx. 5:30 start, 6:00pm clue release
991 Lexington Pkwy N
St Paul, MN 55108

Each clue will be released online, once a day, every day at 6:00pm until the end.
Can't make the kick-off, and would like to contribute or register?
You can do so up to clue 3.

The Original Gabe's By The Park
Saturday March 2, 2013
5:30 start, 6:00pm clue release
991 Lexington Pkwy N
St Paul, MN 55108

More from the white rabbit:

It's been a couple of weeks now since the Rehash and hopefully everyone has had time to recover from the Medallion Hunt. But now it's time to start thinking about the Allison Wonderland Mock Hunt which will be starting two weeks from today on Saturday, March 2nd. We will have a kickoff party at Gabe's by the Park starting at 5:30pm. The first clue will be released at the party at 6pm.

Subsequent clues will be released daily at 6pm online and will be posted on the AllisonWonderland yahoo group as well as Ableminds. People are free to repost the clues to other sites, but I'm not making any promises to do so myself.

There will be 12 clues in all and the hunt will end when the medallion is found or when the hunt is declared over (by me) in the case of extraordinary circumstance.

You may participate in the hunt as either a registered or unregistered hunter. To be a registered hunter, you must pay the $10 registration fee. Then if you find it, you will win the entire prize which this year will be $500 (registration fees + money left from last year + money I chip in myself to bring it to $500 even). You may also particpate as an unregistered hunter which allows you to hunt for free. If an unregistered hunter wins, they will get $100 and the leftover registration fees will carry over to the next year.

To pay your registration fee, you may pay me at the kickoff party, you can send me the money via PayPal at AllisonWondrland@yahoo.com, or email me and I can give you an address to send a check to. You actually have until the release of the 4th clue to register. Some people have already registered.

The hunt will take place in a park in the city of St. Paul. The medallion will not be on or in a body of water, on top of a building, up a tree, on a steep cliff, underground, indoors, inside anything electrical or something that is locked, or anywhere else that might make you ask if looking there could be a bad idea. Be safe, and don't destroy.

Payment of the prize is contingent on return of the medallion.

Cluewriting is underway already and this should be an interesting one.