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First Clue:Thursday, August 24, 2017
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Clue #1
Published on Thursday, August 24, 2017
Have allergies, aches and pains? Need an awning when it rains?
Well, remedies they've got.
See hints 'cause they’re displayed or a sandwich where it's made.
While you rest a while at this spot.
Explanation:
Steichen’s Market has just about everything, according to the signs outside. Offerings like aspirin, fruit and the deli sandwiches (“Made the way you want it”) have brought customers to the Commissary Loop store since 1933. We threw something of an anagram in there too: “See hints ‘c” is all you need to spell “Steichen’s.”
 
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Clue #2
Published on Friday, August 25, 2017
It sounds sorta strange, but try to arrange
A trek toward this summit.
Marshall your might n' do your best Titan
To save the Earth a plummet.
Explanation:
Just outside the International Bazaar -- which always makes us think of the word “bizarre,” or “strange,” -- and not far from the Summit Brewing Co. stage, is a giant sculpture of the Earth. We ask fairgoers to pretend they’re Atlas, a Titan tasked with holding up the globe.
 
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Clue #3
Published on Saturday, August 26, 2017
When milk coagul'd said Fair finagled,
Fans agreed: "That's smelly."
If it's time to lunch, we'll posit our hunch
They'll come here for their belly.
Explanation:
The contentious ousting of the Original Cheese Curds booth at the Fair had longtime fans fuming. In it’s place? Big Fat Bacon, serving giant strips of bacon -- which is just a fancier word for cured meat from the pig’s belly.
 
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Clue #4
Published on Sunday, August 27, 2017
It was knee high by the Fourth of July,
The old farmer boasted.
It's nearly fit for stands, poked by little hands.
Just please don't snap roasted.
Explanation:
Of course we’re talking about corn, but not the roasted kind. There’s plenty of it up on Machinery Hill, planted around the Little Farm Hands exhibit (where plenty of little kids get “hands-on” experience working on a farm).
 
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Clue #5
Published on Monday, August 28, 2017
Are you up for this? It’s hard to miss.
Like scaling a courthouse across old blue.
But stay on the ground, you won’t get around
And you’ll pass up a brand new view.
 
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Clue #6
Published on Tuesday, August 29, 2017
The Buckeye State made these great,
Now they’re all over the nation.
If you look at all, then scope out this wall.
They’re affixed to officers’ rest station.
 
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Clue #7
Published on Wednesday, August 30, 2017
We’ve heard the story, in its naked glory
Of some love birds NSFW-ing at the Wisconsin State Fair.
While it’s not surprising, we are advising,
Shoot the spot named the same as the one defiled there.
Explanation:
What’s up with Wisconsin? A couple was found doing something untoward on a bench in the fair’s coliseum earlier this month. We don’t encourage that sort of thing in Minnesota, but we did want you to share a picture of our own Lee and Rose Warner Coliseum.
 
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Clue #8
Published on Thursday, August 31, 2017
Hair that’s long, with a silent song,
Under a curl that never fails.
Join on in — there’s a nearby din —
And show off some choreographed flails.
Explanation:
In front of Café Caribe on Carnes Avenue is a sculpture of a dreadlocked drummer, frozen mid-song. Behind him, the sign for the café includes a giant, curling wave that never crashes. And in the café is a slate of music each and every day of the Fair. Join in so we can see some dance moves.
 
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Clue #9
Published on Friday, September 1, 2017
Paul, Babe, and loon, a cherry spoon moon
Share a hearty greeting.
For many make one; hold up, stop your run
Mark your time, ’cause it’s fleeting.
Explanation:
On the east side of the Food Building is a “monumental mosaic travel postcard celebrating arts, culture, myth and landmarks for Minnesota sesquicentennial,” according to artist Susan Warner. Its letters contain images of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, Spoonbridge and Cherry, the state bird and more. The mosaic is also surrounded by the 87 counties that make up the state. It’s a great photo opportunity and one that ties us into our collective state history.
 
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Clue #10
Published on Saturday, September 2, 2017
This car goes far
But it won’t turn.
Drop pup, look up:
Neon nocturne!
Explanation:
We’re looking for the Sky Ride here -- its cars on a one-way run from station to station, suspended above the courtyard outside the Food Building at one point (where a few Pronto Pups have met their match). If you look up at the gondolas at night, a bright neon band of light wraps each one.
 
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Clue #11
Published on Sunday, September 3, 2017
There’s one booth — this is truth —
That wants you to taste stick.
We would glow, if you’d show
Their balms might be too slick.
Explanation:
It wouldn’t be a #StateFairHunt if we didn’t give the Enemy Paper a hard time. This year their big giveaway is stick-flavored lip balm. Enough said.
 
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Clue #12
Published on Monday, September 4, 2017
Give a thought then find a spot
Showing what you love about the Fair.
Then smile or frown, or just be a clown —
What’s it look like when you just don’t care?
Explanation:
For the last day of the Fair, we wanted to see your favorite thing about the Great Minnesota Get-Together. Unlike in school — which started today for communities around the fairgrounds — there was no wrong answer.
 
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