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: 1 hour 38 min ago
Park Pick
Harriet Island is my park pick for today. I have visions of clue 10 sending everyone to Como while sitting at Harriet Island, but hopefully history won't
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Ok, does anyone else think that it is in the western part of Ramsey county? This puts me at Cherokee near Annapolis, which is the dividingline between Ramsey
At Harriet today
I just got back from Harriet and there were about 12 cars parked with hunters. Also drove through Cherokee and a few hunters were there. The grounds are still
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There are four possibilities that I can see. Harriet, Cherokee, Upper Landing, and Mounds from a distance. I haven't totally ruled out the idea that's it's
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Ok, so if we go with the thought that the part of the pair is Fred Astaire, and that yellow mashed rice is a reference to the red bull crashed ice event- we
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Indeed it could still be at a park outside of St. Paul but I'm doubting it. My biggest reason is I still believe it needs to be within sight of the Crashed
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In some ways I think of the treasure hunt as being sort of like a big maze with lots of twists and turns and of course many a dead end. I'm afraid a
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In my opinion, there's nothing "holiday'ish" about HF except that it's paired with Crosby (which is the "wrong", red-herring'ish park of the pair, in my
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I guess Lily's are holiday'ish, thanks for pointing that out. And that would fit with the idea of a red herring or "wrong" in the song, in that when you think
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Further to my comment below: unless, of course, using all of the same kinds of clues they used in 2005 is what they meant by a "reprise". L. To:
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I think the CW(s) /is/are tricky one(s)..Crosby is too obvious for clue #2, given previous years clues..What is holiday'ish about HF, just curious?
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Does anybody think it's not in STP? Is the "line" just referring to the overall search area, basically and not where RC makes a straight line? Lily's are
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This is the same reason I think the song clue references to Crosby are red herrings. It's too obvious. Plus, both "song" clues have the word "wrong" in them.
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I'm personally ruling Lilydale out because of the construction that went on this past fall and the remaining planting work to be done in spring. I do like your
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Lilydale – can you see the brewery from there?? From: David Allison Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:45 AM To: theallisonwonderland@yahoogroups.com
Re: park pick
Harriet Island for my pick today! To: theallisonwonderland@yahoogroups.com From: highlander55121@... Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:24:39 +0000 Subject: Re:
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Harriet for my pick today David..thanks
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Good noodle, if there is reference in future clues as the record broken during that event...I think the Red Bull thing ties in nicely, maybe the finder will
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Also the fence could refer to big gates near the St Paul Yacht Club,,"silly mans frills?" wintering boats and all..so spot the fence and then that will lead
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Now that's a clever way of tying all of that together. ________________________________ From: KA To:
