Clue #1
Signal ye the start of fun for ye old Mock Hunt has begun
Thou shalt go out and seek thee the Crown Jewel
Tis hidden in St. Paul, nestled before snow did fall
And before Mother Nature decided to be so cruel
This wintry hunt of 07 may not strike thee as pleasant
But doth it not represent all that hunters stand for?
Perhaps ye can satiate by dwelling instead on 08
Or hunt like a Tiger and ye shall have riches galore.
The first verse is mainly just there to introduce the hunt and tell you what you already know, that it is hidden in St. Paul and that we seem to have a lot of snow. The second verse makes reference to “08” which is meant not as 2008, but rather 1908 which is when Newell Park was founded. It was named after Stanford Newell and Stanford is both an anagram of “stand for” and the college that Tiger Woods went to. Tiger Woods of course comes from “Tiger” and “Woods” also hints at it being hidden in a tree.
Clue #2
Ten times ten, squared, a hundred then
Is how many chains thou shalt need
Core to thy hysteria, use them to cover the area
Ruts in thy thinking are a danger indeed.
A chain is a unit of length and 100 chains would still be a unit of length, but 100 square chains is a measure of area and is equal to 10 acres, the size of Newell Park. Also, if you look at the first word of each line- Ten Is Core Ruts, and say it fast, you get Tennis Courts, referring to the courts that are in the park.
Clue #3
Don't be defensive friend, tis all but a game in the end.
Tis the goal to have wintry fun, not to prove ye be hardcore.
Thou art well likely to howl, if thou likes to stay foul.
But it's not how well ye boast, but how well ye keep score.
This clue has various sports references meant to hint at the various sporting fields in the park which include tennis courts, a basketball court, a volleyball court, and a softball field. It also hints more specifically that you’d be in foul territory of the baseball field. Also, to “keep score”, since a score means 20, if you count every 20th letter through the first three lines, you get “Newell”.
Clue #4
Thy lord doth state, that ye best not wait.
This clue shant lead thee easily to thy destination.
Yet at the end of thy jaunt, thou shalt find what ye want
Where 100 and 96 doth meet in conjunctive combination.
No doubt this will be remembered as the “rich Shepard’s dirt” of this hunt. A quick look at a map will tell you that highways 100 and 96 do not meet and even if they did, it wouldn’t be anywhere near St. Paul. The next question I was hoping people would ask is “Do they meet anywhere else?” If you look “at the end” of each line, you’ll get “tntn”. If you look at a map then of TN for highways 100 and 96, you will see they meet in Fairview, TN. Fairview is a street that borders Newell.
Clue #5
Bid thee search high and low, over hills and under snow
Search every cranny where the lowly worm sneaks.
In the depths shall thee dwell, whilst the heights they do tell
The right park in which ye shalt find the twin peaks.
This clue had mostly general information. “Over hills” refers to the rolling hills of the park. “Cranny” refers to the diamond being hidden in a crevice”. “Where the lowly worm sneaks”, and “in the depths shall thee dwell”, refers to the crevice being on the ground at the very bottom of the tree. The heights that do tell is a vague reference to the smokestack that is visible from the park and the twin peaks refers specifically to the two picnic shelters with pyramid-like tops.
Clue #6
As thou moveth to and fro, inscribing arcs as ye go
Near where a medallion was found in days of yore,
Thou shalt surely know that the place to go
Is to a park in which ye can find a door.
If you are making an arc as you go back and forth, then odds are you are sitting on a swing. Back in 2000, the Winter Carnival Medallion was found near a swing in Newell. Finding a door simply refers to the building on the property and is meant to eliminate other small parks that have no buildings (or doors) at all.
Clue #7
To find thy secret stash, think of a ring of cash
Though thou hath no need to try and step through it
Envision it with thy mind, for though ye be not blind
Thou shalt find thyself unable to see to chew it.
Johnny Cash had a very famous song called “Burning Ring of Fire” which in turn should make you think of a fire ring. There is a fire ring in Newell, but the treasure is not really near there. As for “unable to see to chew it”, if you remove the “c” from “chew it”, that leads you to Hewitt, another street that touches Newell.
Clue #8
Tis surely a curious thing that Americans have no king.
Who shall lead thee in the future is most anyone's guess.
What a crazy condition when there's an open position.
And yet thou must fill one more or perhaps fill one less.
This clue is pretty clearly talking about Presidents for the first three lines. With that in mind, the last line makes you think of President Fillmore. But once you have that, then you have to think of one more and one less, the Presidents before and after Fillmore, Taylor and Pierce. Taylor and the Pierce Butler Route and two more streets that touch on Newell.
Clue #9
Under the national tree is where thou shalt be
If thou wishest to recover thy Lord's lost treasure.
Find thee a gnomon tall, seek where the shadow doth fall
As if to say two hours past high noon were the measure
The national tree is the Oak, of which there are many in Newell, including the tree the treasure is hidden under. A gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The obvious choice for a gnomon in Newell would be the smokestack. If you then look at a map of the area, and draw a line from the smokestack, through Newell Park such that the line would be in the same position as the hour hand would be at 2pm if it were a clock, that line would then go through almost exactly where the treasure is.
Clue #10
Play not the fool, look for the jewel
In a park that fitteth this little rhyme.
At the right plot, thou mightst not see a lot
But ye shall be dry above the water and slime
This clue is just saying to look for a park that rhymes with “jewel” such as, Oh, I don’t know, maybe Newell! And then you’ll want to look at the far end from the parking lot where you can’t really see the parking lot (or not a lot of it anyway).
Clue #11
No sign of the jewel? Then get thee to Newell
Thou hast little time left to fritter.
And if thou pauseth to eat, then find thee a seat
Then search around as far as thou can throw thy litter.
This clue is finally stating to go to Newell and that the treasure is within a litter toss’s distance from a picnic table.
Clue #12
Art thou having displeasure finding thy treasure?
Then thou shalt mark fifty three paces southwest
Starting on ground made holy by the find of John Davoli
And there ye shall find the tree that hath been blessed.
Thou shalt see most stark a split in the bark
Or perchance more like a woodchucks first meal
Down in the shadowy black, deep in a baseline crack
Thou shalt bring forth the jewel to seal thy deal.
This clue starts at the spot where the person who found the Winter Carnival Medallion in 2000 actually found it. It’s a bit west of the bench swing. The directions then lead you to a damaged tree and in a crevice at the very bottom of the tree, the diamond was tucked.
Signal ye the start of fun for ye old Mock Hunt has begun
Thou shalt go out and seek thee the Crown Jewel
Tis hidden in St. Paul, nestled before snow did fall
And before Mother Nature decided to be so cruel
This wintry hunt of 07 may not strike thee as pleasant
But doth it not represent all that hunters stand for?
Perhaps ye can satiate by dwelling instead on 08
Or hunt like a Tiger and ye shall have riches galore.
The first verse is mainly just there to introduce the hunt and tell you what you already know, that it is hidden in St. Paul and that we seem to have a lot of snow. The second verse makes reference to “08” which is meant not as 2008, but rather 1908 which is when Newell Park was founded. It was named after Stanford Newell and Stanford is both an anagram of “stand for” and the college that Tiger Woods went to. Tiger Woods of course comes from “Tiger” and “Woods” also hints at it being hidden in a tree.
Clue #2
Ten times ten, squared, a hundred then
Is how many chains thou shalt need
Core to thy hysteria, use them to cover the area
Ruts in thy thinking are a danger indeed.
A chain is a unit of length and 100 chains would still be a unit of length, but 100 square chains is a measure of area and is equal to 10 acres, the size of Newell Park. Also, if you look at the first word of each line- Ten Is Core Ruts, and say it fast, you get Tennis Courts, referring to the courts that are in the park.
Clue #3
Don't be defensive friend, tis all but a game in the end.
Tis the goal to have wintry fun, not to prove ye be hardcore.
Thou art well likely to howl, if thou likes to stay foul.
But it's not how well ye boast, but how well ye keep score.
This clue has various sports references meant to hint at the various sporting fields in the park which include tennis courts, a basketball court, a volleyball court, and a softball field. It also hints more specifically that you’d be in foul territory of the baseball field. Also, to “keep score”, since a score means 20, if you count every 20th letter through the first three lines, you get “Newell”.
Clue #4
Thy lord doth state, that ye best not wait.
This clue shant lead thee easily to thy destination.
Yet at the end of thy jaunt, thou shalt find what ye want
Where 100 and 96 doth meet in conjunctive combination.
No doubt this will be remembered as the “rich Shepard’s dirt” of this hunt. A quick look at a map will tell you that highways 100 and 96 do not meet and even if they did, it wouldn’t be anywhere near St. Paul. The next question I was hoping people would ask is “Do they meet anywhere else?” If you look “at the end” of each line, you’ll get “tntn”. If you look at a map then of TN for highways 100 and 96, you will see they meet in Fairview, TN. Fairview is a street that borders Newell.
Clue #5
Bid thee search high and low, over hills and under snow
Search every cranny where the lowly worm sneaks.
In the depths shall thee dwell, whilst the heights they do tell
The right park in which ye shalt find the twin peaks.
This clue had mostly general information. “Over hills” refers to the rolling hills of the park. “Cranny” refers to the diamond being hidden in a crevice”. “Where the lowly worm sneaks”, and “in the depths shall thee dwell”, refers to the crevice being on the ground at the very bottom of the tree. The heights that do tell is a vague reference to the smokestack that is visible from the park and the twin peaks refers specifically to the two picnic shelters with pyramid-like tops.
Clue #6
As thou moveth to and fro, inscribing arcs as ye go
Near where a medallion was found in days of yore,
Thou shalt surely know that the place to go
Is to a park in which ye can find a door.
If you are making an arc as you go back and forth, then odds are you are sitting on a swing. Back in 2000, the Winter Carnival Medallion was found near a swing in Newell. Finding a door simply refers to the building on the property and is meant to eliminate other small parks that have no buildings (or doors) at all.
Clue #7
To find thy secret stash, think of a ring of cash
Though thou hath no need to try and step through it
Envision it with thy mind, for though ye be not blind
Thou shalt find thyself unable to see to chew it.
Johnny Cash had a very famous song called “Burning Ring of Fire” which in turn should make you think of a fire ring. There is a fire ring in Newell, but the treasure is not really near there. As for “unable to see to chew it”, if you remove the “c” from “chew it”, that leads you to Hewitt, another street that touches Newell.
Clue #8
Tis surely a curious thing that Americans have no king.
Who shall lead thee in the future is most anyone's guess.
What a crazy condition when there's an open position.
And yet thou must fill one more or perhaps fill one less.
This clue is pretty clearly talking about Presidents for the first three lines. With that in mind, the last line makes you think of President Fillmore. But once you have that, then you have to think of one more and one less, the Presidents before and after Fillmore, Taylor and Pierce. Taylor and the Pierce Butler Route and two more streets that touch on Newell.
Clue #9
Under the national tree is where thou shalt be
If thou wishest to recover thy Lord's lost treasure.
Find thee a gnomon tall, seek where the shadow doth fall
As if to say two hours past high noon were the measure
The national tree is the Oak, of which there are many in Newell, including the tree the treasure is hidden under. A gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The obvious choice for a gnomon in Newell would be the smokestack. If you then look at a map of the area, and draw a line from the smokestack, through Newell Park such that the line would be in the same position as the hour hand would be at 2pm if it were a clock, that line would then go through almost exactly where the treasure is.
Clue #10
Play not the fool, look for the jewel
In a park that fitteth this little rhyme.
At the right plot, thou mightst not see a lot
But ye shall be dry above the water and slime
This clue is just saying to look for a park that rhymes with “jewel” such as, Oh, I don’t know, maybe Newell! And then you’ll want to look at the far end from the parking lot where you can’t really see the parking lot (or not a lot of it anyway).
Clue #11
No sign of the jewel? Then get thee to Newell
Thou hast little time left to fritter.
And if thou pauseth to eat, then find thee a seat
Then search around as far as thou can throw thy litter.
This clue is finally stating to go to Newell and that the treasure is within a litter toss’s distance from a picnic table.
Clue #12
Art thou having displeasure finding thy treasure?
Then thou shalt mark fifty three paces southwest
Starting on ground made holy by the find of John Davoli
And there ye shall find the tree that hath been blessed.
Thou shalt see most stark a split in the bark
Or perchance more like a woodchucks first meal
Down in the shadowy black, deep in a baseline crack
Thou shalt bring forth the jewel to seal thy deal.
This clue starts at the spot where the person who found the Winter Carnival Medallion in 2000 actually found it. It’s a bit west of the bench swing. The directions then lead you to a damaged tree and in a crevice at the very bottom of the tree, the diamond was tucked.
Great job Reg :cool:
Clue #1
Signal ye the start of fun for ye old Mock Hunt has begun
Thou shalt go out and seek thee the Crown Jewel
Tis hidden in St. Paul, nestled before snow did fall
And before Mother Nature decided to be so cruel
This wintry hunt of 07 may not strike thee as pleasant
But doth it not represent all that hunters stand for?
Perhaps ye can satiate by dwelling instead on 08
Or hunt like a Tiger and ye shall have riches galore.
The first verse is mainly just there to introduce the hunt and tell you what you already know, that it is hidden in St. Paul and that we seem to have a lot of snow. The second verse makes reference to “08” which is meant not as 2008, but rather 1908 which is when Newell Park was founded. It was named after Stanford Newell and Stanford is both an anagram of “stand for” and the college that Tiger Woods went to. Tiger Woods of course comes from “Tiger” and “Woods” also hints at it being hidden in a tree.
Clue #2
Ten times ten, squared, a hundred then
Is how many chains thou shalt need
Core to thy hysteria, use them to cover the area
Ruts in thy thinking are a danger indeed.
A chain is a unit of length and 100 chains would still be a unit of length, but 100 square chains is a measure of area and is equal to 10 acres, the size of Newell Park. Also, if you look at the first word of each line- Ten Is Core Ruts, and say it fast, you get Tennis Courts, referring to the courts that are in the park.
Clue #3
Don't be defensive friend, tis all but a game in the end.
Tis the goal to have wintry fun, not to prove ye be hardcore.
Thou art well likely to howl, if thou likes to stay foul.
But it's not how well ye boast, but how well ye keep score.
This clue has various sports references meant to hint at the various sporting fields in the park which include tennis courts, a basketball court, a volleyball court, and a softball field. It also hints more specifically that you’d be in foul territory of the baseball field. Also, to “keep score”, since a score means 20, if you count every 20th letter through the first three lines, you get “Newell”.
Clue #4
Thy lord doth state, that ye best not wait.
This clue shant lead thee easily to thy destination.
Yet at the end of thy jaunt, thou shalt find what ye want
Where 100 and 96 doth meet in conjunctive combination.
No doubt this will be remembered as the “rich Shepard’s dirt” of this hunt. A quick look at a map will tell you that highways 100 and 96 do not meet and even if they did, it wouldn’t be anywhere near St. Paul. The next question I was hoping people would ask is “Do they meet anywhere else?” If you look “at the end” of each line, you’ll get “tntn”. If you look at a map then of TN for highways 100 and 96, you will see they meet in Fairview, TN. Fairview is a street that borders Newell.
Clue #5
Bid thee search high and low, over hills and under snow
Search every cranny where the lowly worm sneaks.
In the depths shall thee dwell, whilst the heights they do tell
The right park in which ye shalt find the twin peaks.
This clue had mostly general information. “Over hills” refers to the rolling hills of the park. “Cranny” refers to the diamond being hidden in a crevice”. “Where the lowly worm sneaks”, and “in the depths shall thee dwell”, refers to the crevice being on the ground at the very bottom of the tree. The heights that do tell is a vague reference to the smokestack that is visible from the park and the twin peaks refers specifically to the two picnic shelters with pyramid-like tops.
Clue #6
As thou moveth to and fro, inscribing arcs as ye go
Near where a medallion was found in days of yore,
Thou shalt surely know that the place to go
Is to a park in which ye can find a door.
If you are making an arc as you go back and forth, then odds are you are sitting on a swing. Back in 2000, the Winter Carnival Medallion was found near a swing in Newell. Finding a door simply refers to the building on the property and is meant to eliminate other small parks that have no buildings (or doors) at all.
Clue #7
To find thy secret stash, think of a ring of cash
Though thou hath no need to try and step through it
Envision it with thy mind, for though ye be not blind
Thou shalt find thyself unable to see to chew it.
Johnny Cash had a very famous song called “Burning Ring of Fire” which in turn should make you think of a fire ring. There is a fire ring in Newell, but the treasure is not really near there. As for “unable to see to chew it”, if you remove the “c” from “chew it”, that leads you to Hewitt, another street that touches Newell.
Clue #8
Tis surely a curious thing that Americans have no king.
Who shall lead thee in the future is most anyone's guess.
What a crazy condition when there's an open position.
And yet thou must fill one more or perhaps fill one less.
This clue is pretty clearly talking about Presidents for the first three lines. With that in mind, the last line makes you think of President Fillmore. But once you have that, then you have to think of one more and one less, the Presidents before and after Fillmore, Taylor and Pierce. Taylor and the Pierce Butler Route and two more streets that touch on Newell.
Clue #9
Under the national tree is where thou shalt be
If thou wishest to recover thy Lord's lost treasure.
Find thee a gnomon tall, seek where the shadow doth fall
As if to say two hours past high noon were the measure
The national tree is the Oak, of which there are many in Newell, including the tree the treasure is hidden under. A gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The obvious choice for a gnomon in Newell would be the smokestack. If you then look at a map of the area, and draw a line from the smokestack, through Newell Park such that the line would be in the same position as the hour hand would be at 2pm if it were a clock, that line would then go through almost exactly where the treasure is.
Clue #10
Play not the fool, look for the jewel
In a park that fitteth this little rhyme.
At the right plot, thou mightst not see a lot
But ye shall be dry above the water and slime
This clue is just saying to look for a park that rhymes with “jewel” such as, Oh, I don’t know, maybe Newell! And then you’ll want to look at the far end from the parking lot where you can’t really see the parking lot (or not a lot of it anyway).
Clue #11
No sign of the jewel? Then get thee to Newell
Thou hast little time left to fritter.
And if thou pauseth to eat, then find thee a seat
Then search around as far as thou can throw thy litter.
This clue is finally stating to go to Newell and that the treasure is within a litter tossÂ’s distance from a picnic table.
Clue #12
Art thou having displeasure finding thy treasure?
Then thou shalt mark fifty three paces southwest
Starting on ground made holy by the find of John Davoli
And there ye shall find the tree that hath been blessed.
Thou shalt see most stark a split in the bark
Or perchance more like a woodchucks first meal
Down in the shadowy black, deep in a baseline crack
Thou shalt bring forth the jewel to seal thy deal.
This clue starts at the spot where the person who found the Winter Carnival Medallion in 2000 actually found it. ItÂ’s a bit west of the bench swing. The directions then lead you to a damaged tree and in a crevice at the very bottom of the tree, the diamond was tucked.
Ten Is Core Ruts
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I'll never forget the hunt when you didn't have a license yet and rollerbladed from your house to Cherokee for a hunt. And it was darn cold out! :eek: :grin: That's a determined hunter!
but I did learn something...thanks ME2--
I didn't know that other little park was "clayton park" ---so clue 2 is a little off...but SWEET.
:smile:
Me: Not well enough if it's in there.
Famous last words.....
Congrats Reg! And good job AW, another fine hunt!
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and this visit wasnt even hunt related!
Oh, and while I am here..
Thank you, everyone! I appreciate the congratulations. All I did, though, was dig through lots of snow on the verge of melting, get extremely exhausted, and then happen to stick my hand far enough into the right tree. I think AW deserves the congratulations. As some of you may know, I didn't really do any mock hunts last year because of school and a non-hunter girlfriend I had at the time. Some years, though, doing mock hunts took up a large portion of my free time (like 2003, with AW's hunt, TMK's hunt, Marley's hunt, Redbear's hunt, FB's hunt, Lilman's hunt, Kilty's hunt, and AW's second hunt). I have always enjoyed doing these, and I really appreciate the time and effort the cluewriters put into these things so that I can enjoy the hunting and noodling. As anyone who has done a lot of these mock hunts will tell you, AW knows how to put on a good hunt. He writes extremely good clues, chellenges us in the ways we want to be challenged, and, in all, dreams up incredibly creative and clever hunts every year. I don't think I could survive only being able to put my hunting enthusiasm and energy to use 12 days of every year, and AW's hunts have always helped me in that respect. Good job with the hunt, AW!
By the way, I don't know if the story OT told about me rollerblading to Cherokee is a good example of how much time and energy I put into these things, or how totally clueless I often am! That medallion was in Mounds! That hunt was the first hunt I really got to meet Jake.. we both spent tons of time searching through Mounds one day (after I had wised up and figured out that it wasn't at Cherokee). When I first approached him, because of our previous verbal fight about his use of a metal detector in one of AW's hunts, he said something like "you aren't going to beat me up, are you?" As long as I am hunting, I will never forget that. We ended up becoming pretty good friends during that hunt. Ironically enough, AW, the clue-writing master himself, ended up finding that one. On the very last day, Lilman read the clue at the park, and we all started running to the hiding spot before the clue was finished. AW, who listened to the entire thing including a part about it being hidden under a rock, casually walked over to where we were digging, turned over a rock, and found it!
Sorry about that digression.. I tend to ramble. One last thing, though. I met both BFG and Posen for the first time this hunt, and I just wanted to say what a pleasure it was meeting you both! I really enjoyed hunting with you, BFG! Next time, perhaps it will be me leaning on the tree!
Sunday should work for us for a rehash.
here are 55 pictures for now- It takes forever to load ...wait til you all see the jewel! and regman finding it!!!! I'll try my best to get those up soon. In the mean time enjoy these...
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fire_works_too/album?.dir=3bf6re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos
:the house in the pictures with the goose? and moon - it had that wild metal contraption entrance - I thought that was the 'door' clue
(david, why didn't you use that house as a clue?)
and
what kept me at Newell the moment clue 6 came out was the 'arc' - I remembered the building having arcs on them... I then fit the 10 acres and 1908 and jewell rhymes with newell - then the next clue nailed it with Hewitt and the fire pit.
the clue I thought shoulda meant something else was (even though its an awesome clue) --- about Taylor and Pierce - a couple of us figured that maybe it had to be between the 2 streets -which would place us on the north end of the park.
It was tough because --- "can't see to chewitt" also made us think we couldnt see Hewitt not the fire pit or not see either one of them- we were torn as to which way to beleive--- I know BFG and Reg liked NOT being able to see the firepit and also staying foul.
BFG took 20 steps = score from the picnic table to the tree
Jes got the Tiger Woods - that was a hard one to keep quiet! I wanted to tell everyone that one!
I saw Standford/Stand for on clue 10 :wink:
I can't tell you how many people asked me if I thought we should be standing under a tree and then going to 2 o clock OR if we need to find something tall and go to a tree at 2 o clock.
Excellent clues and hunt --- I'm glad I got to hunt in Newell again - its the first park I ever hunted in back in 1984.
damn, you're old ...
TONS and TONS of snow that year. The snow banks created by clearing the ice were so big there was a group of young guys that tunneled through that snow all around the rink.
They had to have figured that's where the medallion was located - unless they just thought it was a cooler thing to do while hunting.
Y-E-S
Ferns @ 7 tonight
(personally Id like to go to OGaras to hear the urinal cakes- next time though)
Becks and I will be there
how hard was that?
don't answer that :wink: