Clue 11 came out at Midnight / Medallion Found
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I guess we should have seen it coming. With yesterdays clue spelling out Mounds Park, it was then probable that the next clue would spell out even more and lead some hearty hunter to the prize. It did just that, and A brother and sister team from Wisconsin took home the puck minutes after clue 11 was released. Andrew Burke, a 21 year old from Knapp Wi., and his sister Jessica French, 26, from Baldwin Wi. The two did have a registered button and are eligable for the full $10,000 bounty. They had been searching every night this week. Andrew found the medallion in a 3M Highland Invisible Tape box wrapped in plastic. it was placed under a fallen tree. Here was that final clue that led them to the prize.
Clue 11
Air and river sounds lead all to Mounds
Far from the graves take your entourage
Twixt Burns and Thorn an icy pathway is born
Across Mounds from a gray house and tan garage
Hell hath no fury as those on the wrong path
Mounds and Warner form a woodsy perimeter
The path, not official, contains footprints beneficial
Some 300 trudges - nota quest for a quitter
This trail you must follow goes down a narrow hollow
Under a fallen tree to an old rusted drum
From here you must search for a hillside path perch
Wherein lies the center of fun
This is a clue that looks oddly like a clue fit for the 12th day not the 11th. I suspect the PP was worried about the sub-zero temperatures and decided to spell it out specifically a day early so as not to keep hunters out there all night long in dangerous conditions. But what do I know? Other than a lot of nothing! That is now saddly evident as we look back on a hunt that took us on a whirl-wind tour of the city ending up at, yep, a Hollow ending that put us in a fix. I have to tell you, after 27 years of hunting for this thing (I was 20 years old my first hunt) I have never been so sure we had the right place only to have never been so wrong! And for that, I apologize to our readers who may or may not have depended on our super-slueth de-coding.
We get tons of e-mails from you our readers everyday during the hunt with everything from, your ideas, to your questions, to thanks for the effort, to, I’m a Jackass! Hmmm. Well at any rate, I want to thank you all for your comments and sorry if we didn’t get back to all of you. There simply is not enough time to answer all of the mail but we really do appreciate it!
Tomorrow the PP should post the explanations for all the clues and you can finally get the real skinny on what all these references meant. When you think you’re really on to something and in reality you’re not at all, these explanations can be a valuable tool for the old learning process and for years to come. For me, I am closing the book on this MC stuff. This will be my final chapter.
Happy Winter!
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