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2001 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt

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Discuss the 2001 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt Here

Paul Revere

what do ya think?

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:29 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

right

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:29 AM Permalink
frostbite

I still have Newell in my top 3, a large rec center, 2 skating rinks, it is hilly, the park runs east and west, I do not know Hillcrest is promising, however.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:29 AM Permalink
SueButt

We used to call that Dead Man's Hill...there was a murder back when I was a kid...hmmm

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:30 AM Permalink
Scribe

Riv,have fun and re-read your tagline again!:)

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:30 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

of course, I'm usually wrong on these sort of things, only twice have I been in the right park on searching for this thing. Cherokee Park, and out by the Capitol.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:30 AM Permalink
Scribe

Really Sue?? I don't remeber that. What happened?

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:31 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

of course, I'm usually wrong on these sort of things, only twice have I been in the right park on searching for this thing. Cherokee Park, and out by the Capitol.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:31 AM Permalink
rivvraft

LOL, i guess

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:32 AM Permalink
SueButt

A Lawyer paid to have his wife killed...The Thompson murder...they lived up on Hillcrest. She was in the bathtub and ran around naked and bloody.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:33 AM Permalink
Scribe

Paul,relax,usually you end up digging up the wrong park because you jump the gun.In the end we all end up at the same place and have equal chance of finding the thing. The first person to figure the park just gets to dig up the most ground for the rest of us and doesn't usually find it!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:33 AM Permalink
strikitrich

I have been getting pretty good at this over the past few years..this year I am leaning toward a very unique twist in the hunt...wanna hear it?

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:33 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

Up lifting story

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:33 AM Permalink
SueButt

Just trying to brighten your day...

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:34 AM Permalink
Scribe

Thats awful!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think they'll use that in the clues! Yucky!!!!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:34 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

Up lifting story

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:34 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:35 AM Permalink
Scribe

Shoot Strike!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:35 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

Up lifting story

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:35 AM Permalink
Scribe

LOL! Frostbite!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:35 AM Permalink
frostbite

Lets hear it strikitrich

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:36 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

Up lifting story

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:36 AM Permalink
Eclipse

Has anyone thought that East and West could refer to 7th st. W7th does go past highland

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:37 AM Permalink
Scribe

Frostbite,you just gotta be different don't you!LOL!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:37 AM Permalink
Paul Revere

Up lifting story

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:37 AM Permalink
David Hulbert

The reference to circular thinking first made me think of Columbus Circle near the Capitol.A wild stab at best,but the clues thus far don't actually say the treasure's in a park this time-just public land.

The other clues don't really fit that location,except today's reference to depression could mean downhill on the Capitol approach.No bank nearby that I know of.

Hillcrest and the Highland Park area sound promising.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:37 AM Permalink
frostbite

Not shoot...in other words...lets hear the twist, sorry no bad feelings...I am ignorant. what is LOL?

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:37 AM Permalink
strikitrich

ok...what if it is not in a PARK! what about a PARK-ing lot? At a st. paul ice rink - on a CIRCLE street? In Energy PARK!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:37 AM Permalink
Scribe

DAVID!! I didn't know you digged!LOL!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:38 AM Permalink
Downtown Dave

The medallion is hidden in the corpse of a dead pirate ballerina, killed in a fencing accident---got it--back to work

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:39 AM Permalink
strikitrich

LOL = lots of luck

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:40 AM Permalink
frostbite

Good catch...Excel Energy Center? Probably too much traffic to hide it well there.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:41 AM Permalink
frostbite

Thanks strikitrich...

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:41 AM Permalink
Scribe

History here says that your probably wrong although if your not you can rub it in all you want Strike!

They have only done such a thing once or twice that I recall 62,58,59and 69.

That was a different time,where there weren't as many lawsuits and problems politically with the hiding and finding.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:42 AM Permalink
Scribe

LOL=Laugh Out Loud!

I asked the same question when I first came here too!LOL!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:43 AM Permalink
David Hulbert

Clue #1 mentions the word duel which makes me think of fencing,which could mean near a fence.

"Keep on your toes'could suggest figure skating on a rink which is circular.I don't know how many folks can actually skate on their toes,but these clues can be convoluted.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:43 AM Permalink
frostbite

The first 4 clues are convoluted.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:44 AM Permalink
Scribe

Downtown Dave I think you you've finally figured it out!

Took you long enough!:)

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:44 AM Permalink
strikitrich

Clue 1 = "toes" clue 3 = "figure" clue 4 = "play" ice skating and hockey.....and they have NOT said PARK they said beloved St. Paul

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:45 AM Permalink
Scribe

David,(now there's lots of Daves!!!!) I think you are right on your take,skating though I still have a hard time with but I have been wrong before!!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:46 AM Permalink
Eclipse

Has anyone come to a conclusion that it might be near the Pioneer Press

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:46 AM Permalink
Scribe

This is what I'm saying strike!!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:46 AM Permalink
frostbite

The first 4 clues are convoluted.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:47 AM Permalink
SueButt

How 'bout this...when I read the clue #4 to the little one, she kept thinking I was saying Plane, not playing...Hillcrest is right under a flight path...hmmm, from the mouth of Babes...

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:48 AM Permalink
strikitrich

yesterday I went to Oscar Johnson ice arean on decourcy CIRCLE..in Energy PARK....and there is a huge PARK-ing lot and alot of chain link fence behind the open area???

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:48 AM Permalink
Scribe

Could be eclipse I'm not ready to rule anything out totally yet.Except that it is in St.Paul and it may or may not be a park.It is not a street or that narrow but public land,probably with a huge expanse of un dug up snow!!!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:49 AM Permalink
kid minneapolis

I'm already being sucked into the hunt once again ... in spite of the fact that I'm stuck in Northfield and have too much homework to do. Maybe my stats prof will give me extra credit if I can statistically prove the medallion is in a particular park. Too bad I have no solid ideas yet.

I don't have time for this! (But I just can't stay away.)

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:49 AM Permalink
David Hulbert

SCRIBE:Yes-I've been looking for that bit of plastic for more years than I care to admit.Last time I got close was at Conway Park on the East Side.

By that time the place was a zoo.

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:50 AM Permalink
SueButt

Oscar, a bunch of bolonga, I think you are on to something strikit!

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:50 AM Permalink
Minnesota Fats

In doing some reseach I have reached the following conclusions:

  • There is a 100% chance that they have named the general location (St. Paul)
  • There is a 80% chance they have revealed what the medallion is hidden in/on/under.
  • There is a 80% chance that they have revealed a landmark visible from the location.
  • There is a 80% chance they have revealed a landmark in the location.

    These numbers are based on the last 10 hunts.

    Fats

Wed, 01/24/2001 - 11:50 AM Permalink