The Allison Wonderland
The Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt is part of the St. Paul Winter Carnival every year. While the prize can only go to one winner, The Allison Wonderland is dedicated to the community spirit of treasure hunting. Here, not only will you find out about the Pre-Dig Gig, the Rehash Bash, and various other social events, but we also discuss the clues here in a team effort to decipher them (albeit not always successfully). This is a place to discuss ideas respectfully, report on what's happening "on the ground", and provide each other with useful information. This is a public group so expect that anything posted will be seen by everyone.
Updated: 24 min 39 sec ago
Re: Never Bet on the Cluewriter Being Brilliant
As always, David- excellent recap. I really appreciate the loss of points for obvious errors- like the misspelling on Anchors Aweigh. If we're expected to get
Re: Never Bet on the Cluewriter Being Brilliant
Fun summary David. In addition to what you've noted, don't you also have a problem with inconsistency in the explanations given for Clue #2 & Clue #5. If the
Never Bet on the Cluewriter Being Brilliant
I like to think I'm a smart guy. Yet every year I end up learning the same lesson, then forgetting it, only to have to learn it again the next year. What is
...the Explanations
CLUE #2 Did anyone noodle or ever decide upon THIS as the "Happy Holidays" pair? http://www.amazon.com/Bing-Crosby-Perry-Happy-Holidays/dp/B004VJ2O6E Seems to
Re: Why we SHOULD have found it sooner...
This year I didn't get to experience the same level of frustration with red herrings and ambiguous clues since I started so late. I grew weary of trying to get
Re: Mock Hunt
Good morning David and fellow hunters! It is always sad for me when the hunt comes to an end – especially since I wasn’t the one to crack the nut and
Re: What books do you use for past knowledge?
Sorry, that was pretty vague. "The Street Where You Live" has an alphabetical street name listing for St. Paul. It goes into some history about the street
Re: What books do you use for past knowledge?
One good one to have is "the street where you live"
Thank You!
Thank you everyone for including this fairly green hunter (6 yrs hunting) into your group! Also, thank you David for creating such a great place to noodle and
What books do you use for past knowledge?
I was just wondering what books are being used to look up the old, old facts of St. Paul? I figure on my "off season" I will do some reading but I don't know
Re: Thank you! Clues Explanations
The explanations were very odd in my opinion and kind of basic/simple. I have always reminded myself not to dig too deep into the clues and I tend to do that
Re: Thank you!
AMEN!!! ________________________________ From: "treehustler@..." To: theallisonwonderland@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,
Re: [The Allison Wonderland] Re: Thank you!
NOPE, MY HATE IS ONLY IN THE CW... what kind of cw, doesn't know east from north, or that his anagram had unused letters. All the clues sucked. Just my
Re: Thank you!
agree!
Re: Thank you!
Finally catching up with my reading here and it is a good time to echo that sentiment... ((Thank you David for hosting this group AND for your insightful and
Re: Why we SHOULD have found it sooner...
Someone did noodle James J Hill for buying Cherokee for the city, tho I don't recall the High Bridge guy/part being noodled. I have the Hill reference in my
Re: Thank you!
I'm not crasy about it. I liked the one with blue tint embossed on the PP site much more.
Re: Thank you!
Does anyone else hate the medallion design. No offense to the jeweler, but I think it's rather ugly.
Re: [The Allison Wonderland] Thank you!
Yes sir, thanks to David!!! It's always fun and its nice to have such bright minds; to bounce ideas off, and to gain new ones... Thanks DA. Sent from my HTC
Thank you!
Thank you David for hosting this group for all of us to noodle the clues. From: djschuette Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:29 AM To:
