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Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 12/07/2021 - 14:48
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Hunt information
Dates:
First Clue:Sunday, January 23, 2022
Found on:Monday, January 31, 2022
Finders:
NameHometown
Skyler Sawyer
Prize:
Maximum Prize:$10000
Awarded Prize:$10000
Location:
General Location:Silverwood Park
Exact Location:In the overflow parking lot/field
Concealer:Frozen in ice inside a COVID at-home test kit box
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Clues
Clue #1
Published on Sunday, January 23, 2022
From delta to omicron, what a marathon
Getting from last year to this
Strap on your mask, get down to the task
Let fresh treasure be your bliss
Explanation:
We open by laying the ground rules, and urge hunters to wear a mask. Fresh refers to the recent makeover at Silverwood Park.
Our Thoughts:
Plenty of noodles came out of this one. Delta and Omicron are the 4th and 15th letters of the Greek alphabet. Marathon led hunters to thinking this was along the route of the Twin Cities Marathon, running from the Franklin Avenue bridge, South on East River Road to Shadow Falls, and then East on Summit to the Cathedral. Bliss kinda supported that with the cathedral.
 
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Clue #2
Published on Monday, January 24, 2022
Get out of your bed if you want some hunt cred
Don't wait 'til temps hit the 30s
With the prize as your driver be a vigorous striver
For success means a life of ease
Explanation:
“Cred, 30s (as ‘thirties’), striver” are an anagram for Three Rivers District, which includes Silverwood Park.
Our Thoughts:
Cred had some hunters seeing red (see what we did there?) because no one would ever have made the leap to go from 30s to thirties. With all the hidden rivers references, a life of ease put some hunters along the Mississippi River. Not waiting until temps hit the 30s may have been an early suggestion that the medallion was in a chunk of ice that would have melted once the temps got to the 30s. Other hunters took the 30s, once we knew it was Silverwood Park, to be street references in the area to the north of the medallion's resting place.
 
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Clue #3
Published on Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Far from the path that leads to a bath
The treasure waits so alone
Step out of the dark go to the park
But avoid obstacles of cone
Explanation:
Silverwood has a forest bathing trail. The puck is hidden in a parking lot.
Our Thoughts:
OK, so Silverwood has a forest bathing trail. The medallion was anything but far from that path. So much so that we channel "generally east" meaning west in the 2013 explanations, to say that far is the new near. And then obstacles of cone? Nothing? Really?
 
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Clue #4
Published on Wednesday, January 26, 2022
An item hot is the current lot
Of at-home tests for COVID
Ours is nice, in block of ice
Inside the medallion's hid
Explanation:
The prize this year is tucked into the box of an at-home COVID test, which we then froze in a chunk of ice.
Our Thoughts:
This one was pretty much a gimme, but "lot" could have meant a reference to the overflow lot.
 
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Clue #5
Published on Thursday, January 27, 2022
When the buttons showed up, we screamed out what?!?
Still, we didn't cancel the order
So when we hid the puck, we pushed our luck
And hid it so close to a border.
Explanation:
A nod to this year’s registered button misprint – the button appears undecided if it’s 2021 or 2022. Likewise, St. Anthony Village is actually in two counties – Hennepin and Ramsey. Silverwood Park is in the smaller part of St. Anthony that’s included in Ramsey, which had us making sure we didn’t cross any borders when we hid the prize.
 
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Clue #6
Published on Friday, January 28, 2022
Ride this rhyme for a trip through time
From stone circles to the flood
From a raised elevation you'll make observation
That all of us spring from the mud
Explanation:
Among the sculptures in Silverwood Park is a time machine, stone circles, a memorial to the 1927 Mississippi River flood, a raised platform, and a sculpture that focuses us on the “early developmental state that all living creatures take before developing their own biological directions.”
 
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Clue #7
Published on Saturday, January 29, 2022
Scale the heights, look for the brights
Where nature inspires the arts
Is it life eternal or heat infernal
That strikes at your heart of hearts
Explanation:
Silverwood Park, near Columbia Heights and New Brighton, is known as a place where nature inspires the performing, fine and folk arts. One of the sculptures at the park is “Eterne,” an archaic form of the word “eternal,” and the visitors center is heated and cooled by geothermal energy.
 
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Clue #8
Published on Sunday, January 30, 2022
If saving souls is among your goals
Then this hunt is for you
Bring your legions to these regions
And stay a week or two
Explanation:
Saving souls = salvation; legions = army; stay a week or two = camp. Silverwood Park is the site of a former Salvation Army Camp.
 
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Clue #9
Published on Monday, January 31, 2022
See how brave, bucked and raved
the tempo of the hunter
take a break for your sake
and tear the words asunder
Explanation:
Silverwood Park’s sculpture tour includes a giant “5” at the south end of the visitor center parking lot. It’s called “High Five,” and we’re riffing on it with an anagram (“bucked” and “raved”) about jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, suggesting readers “take a break” – a nod to Brubeck’s well-known “Take Five.” Tempo is a nod to the speed or flow of notes in music, which could lead hunters to one of the park’s overflow parking lots.
 
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Clue #10
Don’t skip ahead, follow the thread
You need to observe beginnings
Every clue has a bit that’s true
Rely on it to find winnings.
Explanation:
For folks who have found Silverwood but not the lot, we’ve started each line with a letter that spells out “Dyer,” a reference to Dyer’s Hill at the park, which overlooks the hiding spot.
 
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Clue #11
The finder will plot and search a lot
Avoiding where others go.
Away from the trail, how can you fail
Your riches will overflow.
Explanation:
The medallion is hidden out in the open, under a few inches of snow, in the middle of one of the park’s overflow parking lots. So don’t get stuck in the woods or searching the usual stumps and grass patches that many do.
 
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Clue #12
Noodling good? You’re at Silverwood.
What you seek is so near.
At county’s edge, this is our pledge —
The prize is in the clear.

If it’s night, turn on your light
And head from car through woods
Atop a rise you will surmise
Benches overlook the goods.

Down below, an expanse of snow
Bisected by small trees.
It’s out from those, 15 paces or so
The treasure lies at your knees.
Explanation:
It’s the final clue, so this one almost puts you on top of the prize. Again, we note the puck is out in the open, or “in the clear,” and give directions to head from the main parking lot to the adjacent wooded hill. If you follow the well-worn foot trail through the snow, you’ll end up at Dyer’s Hill, which is marked by several benches. Down below is an open patch of snow – an overflow parking lot, closed in winter – that is split in half by a line of trees. Out 15 paces to the north from one of the middle trees, the medallion sits beneath the snow.
 
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