Medallion Central

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!

It just keeps getting better everyday. With todyay’s clue, many of our early polls sighting Sweed Hollow may have now just taken a round about turn back the other direction on Mounds Blvd toward Mounds Park! But not so fast people. We here at Medallion Central are not so convinced. Torn? Yes somewhat. Here is why.

Clue # 10

Look for the sight you hope is just right
You’re doubtful and your torn
Make the rounds for what rymes with grounds
And part of a rose with a horn
Through flames and flow this park where you’ll go
Is the sight of sacred relics
Stay away from these and the cliffs if you please
Or you’ll be in a heckuva fix

Let’s first sart with the obvious which is why we have a bunch of hunters focusing on Mounds Park. The third line of the clue, “Mounds” obviously rymes. It is afterall clue number 10 so it would make sense to spell it out for people. Or does it? This year’s clues, I don’t believe, are really all that obvious, or easy to spell out, so I have a little trouble believing that now it suddenly becomes simple. But if you look at your map of Mounds you will see the streets referenced in the rest of the clue. Part of a rose with a horn is the “Thorn”. Thorn Street comes into the park. Through flames and flow this park where you’ll go. “Burns” Avenue leads to the park. It is the site of sacred relics. Indian Burial grounds, need I explain any further? Many of the other clues references fit well for this park too! It then goes on to tell you to stay away from or don’t dig a hole on the burial site for again “frankly obvious” reasons or you will most likely be in trouble. that would be a heck of a fix.

Well I am hear to tell you that the “heck of a fix” is Mounds Park! That is what you need to “stay away” from. With Sweed Hollow, you will not be part of the clue writers ”fix.” The first line of today’s clue is a sight line you need to make on your map. From the Hope Community Center to a specific point, which you should all have by now if you have been following along for the last couple of days, at the top of the park. What rymes with grounds is in fact Mounds Blvd. which will lead you to this park as well as the other park. In the area of the site you hope is just right, you will find a large tree that has been completely ”flamed” out. It is just on the edge of the wild flower garden which probably has the roses with “thorns.” The sacred relics you need to separate. Just look up “sacred” by itself. You will see a definition equaling “Hallowed”. Hmmm. The relics are all in the hollow from the swedish community that previosly lived there. Those shanty’s that once stood there were condemed and removed back in the ’50s because they were not hooked up to city sewer and water. Also the brewery is down in the hollow, that is a relic as well. Today’s clue is telling you to “stay away” from these relics and the cliffs. In other words, you need to be up on the top part of the park where the old “mansion” stood. We talked about the tie in with the mansion days ago. There is a nice “round” patio area up there as well. If you are in the lower hollow you will be in the wrong area and the heckofa fix will be trying to climb up the cliffs to get where you need to be.

So there you have it. Two good parks to be torn between. A good argument can be made for all of the clues to fit both. It’s really getting good!

Happy Hunting!