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1999 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt

Submitted by Casey Trauer on

It's time for the Medallion Hunt! The first clue will appear on PioneerPlanet just after midnight Saturday, Jan. 22. Come back here to compare notes with other treasure seekers, but be certain you read the rules on the Planet's Winter Carnival page.

cathy jungers

message to comeau not como we believe it is a basketball net

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:21 PM Permalink
David Medallion

no its not....its howard stern and ron howard

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:22 PM Permalink
skee-lo

howard stern is not a singer

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:23 PM Permalink
Sickoflookin!

Is Ron Howard funny!?!??!?!? Besides funny looking?

(Deleted item originally posted by cathy jungers on 08:23pm Feb 2, 1999 CST)

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:23 PM Permalink
comeau not como

Shovelmaster My husband agrees, he is convinced it's at como and wants to go look there again. Have you been to Conway? All of the clues are there-even got

hubby to think twice.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:24 PM Permalink
skee-lo

know, its Phalen Jones and George Phalen

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:24 PM Permalink
Yommi

Conway Twitty- Missippi Musician (crooner) and Tim Conway- comedian

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:24 PM Permalink
Joe Ma Ma

Does anybody know how to play shuffleboard?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:24 PM Permalink
MJ

Stay on task. These names have no affiliation with Conway, nor any other park in St. Paul.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:24 PM Permalink
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I think that you are all misled about the 954 thing. I also think that the med is in a baseball. The thing about the isonoclast is funny because it may just have something

to do with baseball....Who was the first black baseball player, what position did he play. Think of the scoring in baseball. 4 is second base. Also, the name that's in

plenty a tome...Wilson, a street by conway park. Finally, a row of trees will likely not point to the spot of the med but something that has to do with what a row of

trees is. To you farmers it's a windbreak. How that relates to the hunt is beyond me. What do you guys think?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:25 PM Permalink
cathy jungers

question: whats the meaning of keep out an eye?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:25 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

I don't think 459 or any other combination is the address anymore though. They would never be that precise. I think the address they are referring to is "keeping"

score, that is to say 2020 (a score being 20 as in "Four score and seven years ago..."). The park is on the 2020 block of Conway and is between 94 and 5. To

someone clever enough, that would have pointed out Conway on clue #3.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:25 PM Permalink
MJ

A Baseball or softball cannot stretch around a medallion . . .

If you look at many of the clues, they refer to some of the games going on at Conway, *out*, *home* *goal*, there are many of them . . .

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:28 PM Permalink
skee-lo

has anyone tried unscrambling the first letters of each clue lately, if so, clue me in!

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:28 PM Permalink
Fever has begun

my head is round and white and stretched quite tight worrying that conway is not a park!!! LOL

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:28 PM Permalink
Terry

Does anyone know when the technical difficulties message came down today?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:28 PM Permalink
Joe Ma Ma

That's what I'm saying. I just don't know how to play shuffle board, but if I did, I MIGHT use a 9, a 5, and a 4 to play "today's game."

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:29 PM Permalink
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Could it be the Medallion is in a baseball wrapped tight? I'm still hearing that Ruth Street stands for Babe Ruth, the man of fame, and tome could be records, like

baseball records. Clue no. 6 seems to surround the game of baseball completely if you believe that Ruth Street is important. Are there other baseball fields that fit in

with the clues?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:29 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

The meaning of "keep out an eye" is either keep an eye out for, but reworded in a stilted way to make it fit the rhyming scheme, or for the anagram lovers, it means

don't include the letter "I".

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:29 PM Permalink
comeau not como

Cathy I was thinking same. Maybe white underware, waistband being white,streched around and pulled tightly.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:29 PM Permalink
Sickoflookin!

Last I heard about the first letter of each clue was Frank Sinatra, who is a crooner, but there is NOTHING else that would tie ol blue eyes to the medallion!

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:29 PM Permalink
MJ

I think Ian knows Ter . . . BRB!

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:29 PM Permalink
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A baseball may not strech around a medallion but the cover does strech around the ball quite tight. Because it doesn't do the same to a med doesn't mean that it can't

be.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:29 PM Permalink
Donut Man

Joe Ma why do you ask?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:29 PM Permalink
Yommi

I'M teeling you, "two men share it, one in the same" Both men have the name Conway. Conway Twitty- a crooner whose first name is conway. And Tim Conway- a

comedian whose name comes last- conway is his last name.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:30 PM Permalink
FOOLED YA

Conway is the spot! To all of you dummies wasting your time looking elsewhere, get a freaking life you foolhardy, dumbfounded, diggin dorks!!!!

I can't believe you lame dirt bags who think it's anywhere but CONWAY. You've lost the tools of dealing with reality. Either get a clue, get a life, or get a doctor!

Why your so hell bent on thinking otherwise is probably beyond any doctors scope.

As for all you fools reading idiotic garbage into these clues then you better sit down and let PIE examine your brain or what's left of it. Don't read so much into the

clues because as history shows, they are mostly vague and not so deep you gutter diggers!!!!!!!

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:31 PM Permalink
Aplejax

Weren't Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby good buds?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:32 PM Permalink
Sickoflookin!

You haven't been on for a while Pie, because everyone here basically believes it's at Conway!

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:32 PM Permalink
Pontificator

I'm going to start building my milk carton boat, The prize money may not be there but its a lot less work...

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:33 PM Permalink
Donut Man

Pie I agree. I believe it is in the south west corner not southeast corner of conway. Near the house with the numbers, next to and in line with the 4 trees, near the

2020 sign

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:33 PM Permalink
Newell Pfool

Our working theory last night was that nine play baseball (not softball where a regulation team is 10). The baseball field at Conway is field 4. 5 is the scoring code

for third base. You can tell the lack of success we had by the fact the Med is still out there. Besides I was reading way too much into one clue. Oh well.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:34 PM Permalink
FOOLED YA

oh!

just trying new spew, so get a clue!!!!!!!!1

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:34 PM Permalink
Sickoflookin!

Aplejax, I'm a bit too young to know the answer to that one, but could be possible- ANYTHING is possible!

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:34 PM Permalink
jeloba

it's not that I don't doubt that it is a conway, i have spent too many hours there digging.. But why the message about the park on top?? There has to be a reason..

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:34 PM Permalink
Aplejax

But Conway is not called "park" and it is also completely dug up by hundreds of people and still no medallion

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:34 PM Permalink
Joe Ma Ma

Well, Donut Man, I was out there last night, and I dug out the entire hop-scotch game by the basketball court and while I was there several people came over as if I

was in the right spot, but they were all looking for shuffleboard. I don't know a d*%$ think about the game, so I wouldn't know, but if you use those numbers to play

or score, that could be a clue. . . I fear I may not make it back to the see Tim and Twitty this evening, but good luck to ya.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:34 PM Permalink
linh ngo

pies a fag and should leave

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:35 PM Permalink
Terry

Pat P - You and the Girl with the Most Cake going out again tonight?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:35 PM Permalink
Fever has begun

ALL THESE CLUES BRING YOU TO CONWAY. clues do not tell you where to dig until the last clue,even in the last few years, these have been vague. tonight's

clue will send everyone into a digging frenzy in a certain spot, thinking they all have figured it out, when really she is basicially narrowing the area to dig. Good luck

everyone.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:36 PM Permalink
cathy jungers

thank-you alice in wonderland

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:36 PM Permalink
Yommi

The message on top says the medallion is NOT hidden at a place where the name is NOT "park" It must be at a place with the name "Park"

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:36 PM Permalink
Newell Pfool

You betcha. Newell is just around the corner for us. I think I saw PIE out there when I was walking the dog.

Look for me in the black, yellow and green tie-dyed hammer pants! With a headlamp!

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:37 PM Permalink
FOOLED YA

linh ngo

If you're so cool, how come you have no clue, dirtball breath?!!!!

Haven't you heard of feedom of speech, clueless?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:38 PM Permalink
Sethmon

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!!! I just heard that it is so busy at Conway right now that police are there directing traffic!!!!!!

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:38 PM Permalink
Sickoflookin!

My whole theory on Conway and the park issue is: It used to be called Conway Heights Park and there used to be an old building there that they tore down, and put

up the new one. So the past and new thing are working there.

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:38 PM Permalink
Pontificator

Yommi, How do explain Tim And Twitty... convince me.

What means she with most cake?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:38 PM Permalink
Terry

We should see you out at the site then, Pat! Are you going to wear something white - not usual winter outer wear to help us see you?

Tue, 02/02/1999 - 8:39 PM Permalink