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2012 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt - Tony Schmidt Park
2012 Clues 

So its back to the drawing board for next year 
to find a spot so deep and drear. 
Harder to reach all you whiners 
than those buried Chilean miners. 

Next year's clues will inspire dread 
requiring knowledge of languages dead, 
Higher math rocket science 
disbanding every hunters alliance. 

I take your leave. I bid adieu. 
I go in search of the perfect clue. 
Prepare to hike hard dig deep and delve. 
Will have a grand party in 2012.



 

westy3789

Nice Alex :smile:
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:26 PM Permalink
barefootguy

The time has come around again

For using all your cunning and ken

To unravel Boreas' befuddling clues

Circulated in the PiPress news.

Within our realm explore and search.

No Private properties besmirch.

The treasure rests in a public park.

On a course for golf, please leave no mark.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:26 PM Permalink
Gilby

So much for all that cipher mumbo jumbo! Nicely done BFG!
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:28 PM Permalink
KC0GRN

Sure, I leave for a few minutes.. then they post and decipher it. Heh.

I expect they'll make the scrambles harder as the clues go on.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:29 PM Permalink
westy3789

"I love it when they dial a phone is the videos....

I ran those touch tones through an on-line DTMF decoder and came up with the number dialed..... Which was 228-2093. I will assume the area code to be 651. If so, 651-228-2093 is the direct line to John Brewer who is a reporter for the Pioneer Press. Don't know if this means anything but thought it was worth posting.

I know last year (or was it the year before?) when they dialed a phone in a video I did the same process and came up with Joe Soucheray's direct line.... he was the CW that year. Who knows, maybe this is their way of telling us that John Brewer is the CW this year????"

"I just read on John Brewer's Twitter page that he's been busy for the last week and a half with PP treasure hunt video production"
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:36 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

It seems obvious now that it will have to be a different one each night or they might as well not scramble it at all.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:36 PM Permalink
skari

Seriously - it is ON a golf course? Now that IS different.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:42 PM Permalink
ares

I'll have to go back and look at the video we tivo'ed. Her name was given there.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:42 PM Permalink
Gilby

I gotta say, even with being as excited as I am, I feel it's a bit anticlimactic to have this clue on Friday night before I even fall asleep, with the PDG tomorrow evening and no new clue to follow. Early Edition... Pffft!
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:43 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

ken: range of what one can know or understand
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:43 PM Permalink
skari

Do you think the CW really means ON the course. This is a trip! I mean - it is clue one only, why the easy give away so fast? The Ferguson clue with this is going to send thousands to Highland tomorrow morn.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:45 PM Permalink
barefootguy

"On a course for golf, please leave no mark."

I'm pretty sure this line is saying that it's NOT on a golf course...
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:46 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Does anyone else think this sounds more like a clue from 20 or 30 years ago in its style and tone?
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:46 PM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

The classic debate of "Are they telling us to stay off the golf course because there is a golf course there, or is it just a general statement?" In the past it has always proven to be just a general statement.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:47 PM Permalink
Gilby

I agree, I believe this to mean stay away from the golf courses. Leave no mark on them.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:49 PM Permalink
westy3789

It will be hidden in this treasure chest in Cherokee Park. The clue writer is John Brewer.

If I end up being right I am saint-like.
Fri, 01/20/2012 - 11:51 PM Permalink
barefootguy

If you end up being right, it will be a five clue hunt. :pbpt:
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:01 AM Permalink
skari

Gotcha. I think the wording just threw me.

The tone is very lyrical and bouncy.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:02 AM Permalink
skari

The realm - what do you guys think - just St. Paul, or all of Ramsey county? Personally, I am thinking St. Paul is the King's realm.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:15 AM Permalink
Tony Muellenberg

greek god of north wind, will it be in north
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:17 AM Permalink
skari

hmmm... I suppose we will have to wait till Sunday now for our next fix!!

Well, I think I am off to slumber land now. Perhaps, see you and the rest of the CC tomorrow evening at the PDG. :asleep:
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:23 AM Permalink
westy3789

"Fergie" Ferguson is a female vocalist of the black eyed peas
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:03 AM Permalink
KC0GRN

Ok, this is getting too strange. Now they have someone singing the clues?

Did someone at the press look at the hunt a couple years ago and say "We need to jazz it up more, you know, add a bunch of multimedia to it"?
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:05 AM Permalink
KC0GRN

Too soon to read too much into a clue, but the condensing of Pioneer Press to Pi Press made me think of pie irons, like the kind you use around a campfire.

Guess I should get some sleep....
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:19 AM Permalink
KC0GRN

Oh and no hidden information in the id3 tag on the mp3 file from the clue song.

Other than it was created or generated with itunes, big deal there...
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:20 AM Permalink
King Boreas aka Ian

Looks like magpie!
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 3:16 AM Permalink
MrsMGhunter

DANGIT! Was watching a movie with the family thinking to myself I will be good until this morning when I go buy the early edition. Thank god my husband is MEGA awesome to wake me up just now with the printed out clues! I feel like the kid who wanted to see the countdown to New Years, only to wake up the next day! :crying:
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 3:47 AM Permalink
MrsMGhunter

I have been thinking Highland before it started only for the fact that its the 60th anniversary. The reference to golf course made me think Highland was well. Though like AW said, it could just be the basic statement. :sillygrin:
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 3:55 AM Permalink
l and a mommy

so when does this e-mailing of the clue start happening. Clues out but I didn't receive an e-mail telling me it was out?
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 4:08 AM Permalink
Clue Master

I got the email. That's how I knew to come in here

CLUE NO. 1 The time has come around again For using all your cunning and ken To unravel Boreas' befuddling clues Circulated in the PiPress news.

Within our realm explore and search. No private properties besmirch. The treasure rests in a public park. On a course for golf, please leave no mark.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 5:11 AM Permalink
Clue Master

Maybe an address with 3141 in it?
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 5:20 AM Permalink
Clue Master

I like the song addition.

Best of hunt tunes CD 5 years from now.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 5:24 AM Permalink
Andrea

Doesn't it sound very Dylan-like? I am wondering if they will change music styles with each clue and if it can have any meaning... my guess is it is more like the video versions and is just for entertainment, but who knows!?!
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 5:43 AM Permalink
Brassmonkey

The word pi was done on purpose, makes me think 3.14 or a reference to something round.

Thinking saint Paul as that's the realm.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:14 AM Permalink
diggin4it

around again, circulated, pi ??? I'm going in circles! :sheepish:
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:19 AM Permalink
Clue Master

That's why I made the address noodle. Or maybe something in the shape of pi like this?
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:24 AM Permalink
witchdoctor

The hand opening the treasure box in the vid capture shot is obviously female.

Check the left hand index finger's nail length.

Early pick for park is Highland.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:29 AM Permalink
Brassmonkey

Maybe the treasure needs to be unraveled, perhaps it's wrapped in yarn or twine of some sort.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:38 AM Permalink
Clue Master

A chest wrapped in something else?

Was it in a chest when it was under the mailbox on 7th?

It doesn't seem like it was in anything other than attached with a magnet

Was it only once it was in a chest? I thought there were a few until they retired it.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:45 AM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Hmmm, pi and Circulated could mean the hunt has come full circle and it's back at Highland.

Como in 2001 had the clue about circular thinking.

Could be near a street named (something) Circle.

Could be hidden in or near a fire ring.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:50 AM Permalink
jREST

That is what I thought too...
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:51 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

That screen shot really screws up the side to side width of the posts here. Can you please make them smaller so we dont have to use scroll button to read all the posts? Thanks.
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 7:04 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

:cool:
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 7:11 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

interesting pic. What does everyone make of the dates and names on the list?

dates of hunt and clue writer? Looks like new CW every year or so
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 7:16 AM Permalink
Brassmonkey

Looks like 67 & 69 are crossed off the list...
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 7:19 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

probably did
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 7:19 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

John Brewers name on twitter has pipress in it
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 7:21 AM Permalink