2012 - Tony Schmidt Park

good point.

The prize for knowing the answer was a hat. The $1k/$100 was referring to what the first medallion finders won for turning it in.

Here's one:

Macalaster colors are red and blue

Mattocks Park is on Macalaster and PALACE. appx 3.69 acres in size (near pi).

Dead language derivation --

"...The word mattock, pronounced /ˈmætək/, is of unclear origin. There are no cognates in other Germanic languages, and similar words in various Celtic languages are borrowings from the English (e.g. Welsh: matog, Irish: matóg, Scottish Gaelic: màdog).[9] It may be derived from the unattested Vulgar Latin matteūca, meaning club or cudgel. The New English Dictionary of 1906 interpreted mattock as a diminutive, but there is no root to derive it from, and no semantic reason for the diminutive formation.[9] Forms such as mathooke, motthook and mathook were produced by folk etymology. Dubious connections have also been suggested with words in Balto-Slavic languages, including Old Church Slavonic motyga and Lithuanian matikas.[9]

While the noun "mattock" is attested from Old English onwards, the transitive verb "to mattock" or "to mattock up" first appeared in the mid-17th century.[9]..."

that tree is by the 1st lot by the beach house (I think)

edit: nevermind, I see people found it now

that phalen pic was the pic icon for the clue 2 scrambled

has anyone tried to "SCRABBLE" - anagram - a word in that clue?

They are both park photos also. The vulcan one is mears park a few yrs back. is there a pattern? Ill have to check history, maybe mears clue 1, phalen clue 2...follow history of finds to 12?

also hwy 61 from music clue 1 and "Prince" (castle) clue 2

Does anyone want to do dinner tonight at Yarussos around 7-7:30? I have a craving for their lasagna!!!

Ill go if you wanna meet at 7

The Cooler Crew hopes that CerealKiller finds next year's winter carnival medallion????? Really I dont want next years Yet I still Want this years!!!

red and blue lights on top of police cars at Highland

went out and hit a few parks tonight and found some houses of interest!! lol blue house with red doors!! things that make you go well that's out of place!! lol

I like that! Hadn't thought of it!

A friendly reminder to all the newbies.... since many people read/post on more than one discussion board - please do not post other people's noodles on other boards. There are many reasons we pay to post here - privacy being one of them. We have some really good noodlers here and we need to protect our assets :wink: .

If you start spreading what you see here to the masses, you will quickly find everyone clamming up.

Like! You'll take notice to that a select few on the "old" boards start to get quiet when lurkers start to form and run to the "new mainstream" board. Respect the groups and you get it back!!

With that said, good luck to all! Hoping I might finally get to run into some folks tonight! I am still sticking with Highland in the #1 spot!

Just finished shoveling at the old house here, and I went down the front steps! Three minutes of the wind knocked out of me--been a long time since I felt that. I'm Ok, just be careful everybody, it is icy.

Do people really think the photos the press is posting have anything to do with the actual location of the medallion? Please tell me people here aren't falling into their red herring that easy.

//Looking forward to a photo from Shamrock in today's clue

As much as I love Mattocks (and I do, it is a great tot-lot), the Camo Crue could clear Mattocks in about two hours. With low snow, I'd say it is a dark horse.

It appears the photo is now gone from the Clue 2 and the button image is now there. This looks different than last night, am I wrong or is it because I am on a different PC?

Have you any ideas yet? Ideas other than mere conjecture, that is...

CLUE NO. 2

It's time to get this off our chest:

Mix treasured lore into your quest.

Triple score provides a clue;

So do the colors red and blue.

A SPECIAL SONG

This year, we've worked with a very special guest who will be performing original songs of each clue.

You don't have to be rich to hear this second installment!

Click here to listen to "2012 Clue No. 2, The Song

Ooh! Glad to hear you are ok. I went down on our driveway last Valentine's Day and ended up with a major concussion... It took a really long time to recover.

I have been waiting ALL year for this hunt and now I am too sick to leave the house, booooooo! :crying: I hope the hunt lasts long enough this year so I can met some of you out in the action!

Glad you're OK DTD That can be scary

Hope you feel better! Take some emergen C, drink lots of fluids and rest so you can get out there and hunt! :smile:

Better to be at 80% on clue 8 vs 20% on clue 3. Take care of yourself so you can show us what the new puck looks like.

Look forward to meeting you.

Ares, I can't find the scrambled pg. Am I as re re as I feel or am I missing something. We are feeling " scrambled out here"

I know it's only clue 2 but how could scrabble fit a park?

Yes!! Agree!!

are people meeting up pre-clue during this hunt? Gabes or somewhere else? or just hanging at home...

Triple E

Long work day. No lunch. Ended at 8:15 this evening and then hit BK to get a couple burgers. Don't know what the hangup was with the guy ahead of me at the drive-thru, but I ended up waiting for at least 15 minutes.

Got here, slogged, like much of the discussion and ideas flowing through here. I wonder what fun will be had at 10:30.

I still like triple score as 60 years and being Highland. I am sure my mind will go elsewhere after the next clue.

Going to be toing and froing getting stuff ready for the 10 hour day tomorrow.

I cannot think of a year they gave us a street or a park in clue 2, especially a brown hunt. You hunter historians could probably correct me. I think it's an obscure

reference to something in site. BC is to easy to nail (triple score =3M who's signage

was blue and is now red). Too simple.

Sometimes Clue #2 references what it is hidden in. or streets in the area.

Ok...

I'm going with red and blue being this logo

I always try to figure out what early clues might be saying and then later put the parts together that make sense.

Sometimes that puts us in the right park - and other times not so much.

 :smile:

Never knew that about 3M?!?! kool now I know something new and I am now thinking I have a new park in mind!

My dad retired from their, I still think the red one looks strange, I grew up on Upper Afton a few blocks away.

aaah, como

Crosby 2005

Keep in mind it is a new clue writer this year and they may not quite have the touch for it yet, or could simply have chosen to do things differently.

********nod*************

If your new don't you just grab the boxmeyer safety deposit box and use one of the 50 already written?

More than "like"!!!

:sillygrin:

I'm not letting myself get stuck on a park this early. I've got some ideas, but those could change in @12 minutes.

I'm happy if no one gets stuck on a park until the weekend. That will be the first time I can get out.

Okay so yesterday it was Cherokee Park (found 4 pirate medallions which btw are going to be really hard to find if anyone out there is looking for them because of the extra snow) but today it was Highland and a little bit of Phalen. Highland was interesting. I found what I thought was the medallion! It ended up being a geocache box that someone had hid there previously. I thought it was the medallion since it had a bunch of winter carnival buttons from previous years in it and a letter inside of a plastic baggy that said "congratulations, you have found it!" and it was all inside this antique treasure box looking lunch pale thingy, but only to realize it was just a fake :frown: It also included a little notebook inside a plastic baggy and told me to write down how I came to find this and my name and such. It said I could take something if I wanted out of the box if I put something back in it, but since I didn't have anything on me that I could give I just left it as it was. The box was hid since 2005 but there were only a couple of names written down, one of them happened to be "King Boreas" (maybe as a joke from somebody else?) and the other was Jake I. dated 1/23/2012 (today). So not sure if somebody just put down those two names as a joke or if Jake really did find the same thing I did? I was disappointed though because I really thought I found it!

ha ....welcome to the world of geocaching..

oh...IAN equals K.B.