2012 - Tony Schmidt Park

tim just sent me a screen shot of the paper

when you think big you'll be close to the claim

place the right spot and you're right in the game

find one with heart and many a mark

a special in many a park

Many there are in many a park;

Find the right one, and you're close to the mark.

Think big, and you'll be right in the game

When you spot a place with a special claim.

Somewhere in all that Evil is the correct clue with a couple extra words needed. You're very good at this.

they messed up the scramble clue

big park

Many, many trees. Again. A really big one this time.

thanks terry, its tons of fun, i like this twist they've added

Find the right one and you're close to the mark

Think big and you''ll be right in the game

When you spot a place with a special claim

That's from the paper at Gabes

 that 's 28 words?

many trees in many parks, find the right one

and valentine = TSP

They probably didn't think anyone would notice. They don't know us very well.

near a very big tree i bet

the word heart/earth was eliminated

did they worry it gave us too much

evildoer is really good at these...

what the hell happened to heart/earth?

Bummer on the typo. An hour trying to make something work with heart/earth and it wasn't supposed to be there.

I'm going to sign off here until I get back home.

Were there two "many's" in the scrambled one? Never mind, I went back and looked. Yes there are.

Thanks! I needed driving directions on my phone but will look at these, too, while at home.

"heart" was really "there", typo i guess

Just read unscrambled clue... where is heart? Or earth?

Many there are in many a park:

That's bizarre. Why would they remove two words?

wtf with the typo?

Good grief that first line, many there are many....

musta been from the next clue? I still like valentine even if its not in the clue :sillygrin:

I have the cached page on my phone. 3rd word top line. Maybe something changed from time clue sent to press (print) to time clue set for scrambled release?

hmm parks with landmarks..

Or maybe that was a bonus for us at home and not out digging? lol

Pairs again

Is that the next phase of the scrambling, it add fake words? Or did they just mess up?

I feel like they are referencing a historic marker. Some kind of object marking where a park or city was founded. Like the Pigs Eye marker at Mounds. Any makers at Schmidt, or BC or any other parks we're interested in?

lots of trees in the park, look for a big one where the medallion is near

close to the mark = Shortcake Motel :angry:

close to the mark = bullseye

special claim = claim to fame, or mining claim, the tunnel perhaps?

I'm off to "claim" my bed. It's close to my "heart". Have fun everyone!

Do all the pairs mean "pairs" or are they there to make it harder to unscramble the clue?

marsden archery range is public in arden hills. borders tcaap

always wanted to dig at the landmark center.. lol

This might be our historical clue..... the parks claim to fame so to speak.

gonna dig....for the clue that is

also is classified as a specialty park

perry

//I love pears by the way...

//keep 'em cold in the fridge

there are many trees in park, look near a big one, maybe near "oak ave" side of TS park

I get it, finally

earth is there - an e/a mixup

"History- Before the 1850s the Sioux tribe used Lake Johanna as a resting point on their journey to Rice Lake for the fall wild-rice harvest. Then, in 1850, Charles Perry was the first settler to break ground and plant potatoes on three acres next to Lake Johanna."

The first person to stake a claim - Perry. So think big TSP- not Perry Park but where Perry had his claim close to lake johanna?

good find

Nice!

Thank you!

BUT... you'll be right in the game... suggesting the atletic area of Perry Park.

Playing devil's advocate --- I believe "close to the mark" is a target practice term. I think there is a shooting range (for police) on the SE corner of BC near the RC Workhouse.

Facebook says this: "Note about the clues: Once the official clue each day is released, that written clue is the official clue. Any discrepancy between scrambles, the clue song and the officially posted clue is / was unintentional."

Just a typo.

FYI ... googling shooting ranges will get you some pretty interesting discussion boards. :ooh: The avatars for all the gun lovers are hilarious....

In the 1840s, Charles Perry, a native of the Swiss-Italian Alps, owned the land around Lake Como and grew potatoes on it. In 1848, Perry moved north and homesteaded land at Lake Johanna. Henry McKenty, the “king of real estate dealers”, came to Saint Paul in 1851. He took advantage of the boom in real estate in the 1850s to buy and sell land in Saint Paul and around Lake Como. Lake Como is named after the famous Lake Como in the Italian Alps.

Though it seems logical that Perry named the lake after his birthplace, it is McKenty who is credited with renaming Sandy Lake as Lake Como in 1856. (McKenty also named Lakes Johanna and Josephine after his wife and daughter.) McKenty used his own money to build a road that zigzagged across land he didn’t own, from Saint Paul’s downtown, to bring people out to the lake and his “Como Out-Lots,” a resort community platted on the east side of the lake.

From White Bear Lake History (Perry's daughter Rose was the first St. Paul wedding):

In 1852, a printer from Maryland named Vance purchased land at the south shore of Bald Eagle Lake. The James R. Clewett family also came in the early 1850s, as did Thomas Milner, a farmer from England, who purchased land south of Bald Eagle Lake. (Note of interest: James Clewett married Rose Anne Perry, daughter of Charles Perry, in the first wedding in St. Paul on April 2, 1839).