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Submitted by Allison Wonderland on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 12:37

2001 started the first year of the real-world Allison Wonderland Mock Hunt. The prize this year was a four-pack of tickets to a St. Paul Saints game. Me2 found the treasure at Linwood park after the 12th and final clue came out.

Hunt information
Dates:
First Clue:Sunday, March 4, 2001
Found on:Friday, March 16, 2001
Finders:
NameHometown
Me2 Saint Paul
Prize:
Maximum Prize:Four St. Paul Saints tickets
Awarded Prize:Four St. Paul Saints tickets
Location:
General Location:Linwood Park
Exact Location:Under the retaining wall behind the tennis courts
Concealer:Snow
Clues
Clue #1
Published on Sunday, March 4, 2001
As you go on your quest to uncover the chest
Inside a St. Paul park is the right plot.
For you'll suspect your guess is the best
If you can see a past Medallion hiding spot.
Explanation:
This actually tells you much more than it seems most realized. In addition to saying its a park in St. Paul, it says you can see a previous hiding spot. Of course that previous hiding spot isn't actually *in* the park. Its the 35E overpass at Victoria where the medallion was hidden in 1969. It seems one person at least caught that the previous hiding place was separate from the park and suspected Linwood from the beginning. However, even they failed to notice that the first letter of each line, A-I-F-I, if converted to numbers according to each letter's place in the alphabet, becomes 1969, the year that "previous hididng spot" refers to. The use of the words "suspect" and "plot" was merely a red herring, as all good mysteries have one. "Uncover the chest" suggested it was buried under something.
 
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Clue #2
Published on Monday, March 5, 2001
One is rather small, but the other green and tall
Offering the edge of precision if you start in the west
Then a due southern line will happen to fall
And point to where the treasure doth rest."
Explanation:
I guess this turned out to be much harder when you didn't already know what it was talking about. The thing that was small and the thing that was green and tall, were both walls. One is a large green wall of the tennis court (when seen from the court side). The other was a small wooden retaining wall running parallel near the bluff on the far side of the tennis courts from the street. The green wall ran east and west. If you started on its western edge, and then drew an imaginary line due south, it would intersect the wooden wall at precisely the treasure's hiding place.
 
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Clue #3
Published on Tuesday, March 6, 2001
As you go around town, looking up and down
For where treasure might hide under the snow
The path that's likely to get you the most renown
Is the one to grandmother's house we go.
Explanation:
Of course I had to explain this one early that it was supposed to refer to "over the hills and through the woods" as being the path to Grandmother's house according to the children's song (which I was apparently mistaken about) That in turn was alluding to the fact that the treasure was near the hilly wooded part of the park and if one were to park in the parking lot, you might indeed go over hills and through woods to get to the area by the tennis court.

Also, "looking up and down" was a hint that it was close to the bluff and the hiding spot could be seen from both above and below, even though it was "under the snow".
 
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Clue #4
Published on Wednesday, March 7, 2001
In summer the scenery is full of greenery
As one would expect in most any park.
But to know if you're in the one I mean (hehe)
Look around for an obfuscated landmark.
Explanation:
The "landmark" was the Landmark Brewery, visible from the park. However, near the hiding place, there were many trees in the way and the view of the brewery was obscured.
 
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Clue #5
Published on Thursday, March 8, 2001
Someone serves, but not hors d'oeurves
There is love but there is no romance.
Men and women watch each other's curves
And move their feet, but do not dance.
Explanation:
"Serves", "love" and the rest of the clue were referring to a game of tennis as the treasure was hidden near the tennis courts.
 
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Clue #6
Published on Friday, March 9, 2001
It's wise to not balk if you have to walk
But be careful as you strike out to explore.
The treasure is far afoul of the chalk
And home isn't even close to next door.
Explanation:
"Balk", "walk", "strike out", "foul", "chalk", and "home" were meant to represent pretty clear references to baseball/softball which were meant to tell you that the treasure was in a park with that had such fields as opposed to Cherokee Park which I figured a lot of people might have been thinking up until that point. However, if you read the clue as a whole, it suggests fairly clearly that the treasure is not actually near the fields as it says you have to do a lot of walking, you'll be way in foul territory, and nowhere near home plate.
 
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Clue #7
Published on Thursday, March 10, 2011
The rot of the mummy can turn your tummy
And Arnold's cyborg displayed a murderous rage
But their ill timing can make you look like a dummy.
So instead take a clue from Dracula's age.
Explanation:
The mummy hails from ancient Egypt. The "Terminator" is from the future. Dracula however, both the book itself and the time of its setting, is very much a product of the Victorian Age, which in turn suggests Victoria St., which runs into the park.
 
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Clue #8
Published on Sunday, March 11, 2001
Wheels that go both to and fro
Will guide you to a valuable find
But as you look on them down below
Be sure you see more than one kind.
Explanation:
The kinds of wheels refer to car wheels and train wheels. Both train tracks and 35E are visible when standing near the bluff at Linwood, including the place where the treasure was.
 
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Clue #9
Published on Monday, March 12, 2001
The legend of Boreas is quite glorious
And his northern dominion has a frosty hue.
Meanwhile Vulcanis Rex is quite notorious
Still, look to the south to get a pleasant view.
Explanation:
This was a clue that had two meanings. Linwood has a nice southern view over the city. But also, if you were to look south, you might see Pleasant Ave. right below the park.
 
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Clue #10
Published on Tuesday, March 13, 2001
If you still don't know where the treasure hides in its lair
And it seems these clues aren't following the usual laws
Perhaps you might get a hint from a famous star named Blair
Why you may ask? Oh I don't know, maybe just cause.

Think thou not of Hamlet, but of Romeo and Juliet
If starry eyes are to bring thee riches and gains.
In Hollywood, not Denmark, is this story to be set
As thou seeketh treasure and Holy Great Danes.
Explanation:
The first part of the clue is referring to actor Blair Underwood who was famous for his role in "LA Law" (reference to laws) as well as starring in the movie "Just Cause". The treasure was located under wood, specifically in a hole at the bottom of a wooden wall.

The second part of the clue referred to the star of the Hollywood version of "Romeo and Juliet", Clare Danes. "Holy Great Danes" was then meant to suggest St. Clair Ave., the northern border of Linwood.
 
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Clue #11
Published on Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Dan and Lynn hunt for fun, craziest of theorists bar none.
Yet often in the past near the treasure they have stood.
Their secret to success is that two heads are better than one
So if Dan didn't know where to look then perhaps Lynn would.

Having roamed far and near, and yet found nothing dear
Perhaps you're starting to lose your tenuous sense of mirth.
But maybe you can draw help from our friend Shakespeare
And orient yourself with regard to his place of birth.
Explanation:
Dan and Lynn are the people who got me really involved in the treasure hunt the last year at Cherokee. They were always coming up with some pretty farfetched theories, yet somehow always ended up in the right place. The whole point of the first part of the clue though was to use the phrase "Lynn would" as in Linwood.

The second part of the clue was to tell you which part of the park. Shakespeare's birth place was Stratford on Avon, which alluded to Avon St. "Orient yourself" was a play on words meaning to put yourself east of Avon(orient meaning east). I also though using the word "tenuous" might make people think "tennis".
 
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Clue #12
Published on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
If you don't already know, Linwood is the place to go
Behind a field of sport where a female king used to play.
If you line up a post to intersect a couple of walls
You'll find the secret hole in which the treasure doth lay.
Explanation:
The "female king" was Billie Jean King who played tennis. One of the posts in the fence around the tennis court was also directly in that line between the western edge of the green wall and the treasure. So if you drew perpendicular lines to the green and wooden walls through the fence posts, eventually you would have found the the hole in the wooden wall in which the chest was sitting.
 
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