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Treasure Hunter Training Program

Allison Wonderland

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  1. Whenever a snow emergency is declared, follow the snowplows around and completely dig out all the cars they plow in.
  2. As a big storm is about to hit, stand on your front steps with your back to the yard. Toss your car keys over your shoulder. Go back inside and then go find them the next day.
  3. Read up on Occam's Razor (All else being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the correct one).
  4. Do every word jumble, crossword puzzle, and search-a-word you can get your hands on.
  5. Make a list of all the things you can do with $10,000.
  6. Turn off the heat in your home for 16 hours a day.
  7. Only sleep three hours a night.
  8. Move all the snow from your back yard to your front yard.
  9. Spend all night on the Internet with total strangers discussing who killed JFK.
  10. Commit the Cooler Crew and Treasure Hunter's Guide Websites to memory.
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Re: A 24 Hour Treasure Hunt
A 24 Hour Treasure Hunt
treasure has been found!!
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This site is dedicated to the St. Paul Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt, a main attraction of the annual St. Paul Winter Carnival that takes place every year in the smaller of the Twin Cities. For more on the Winter Carnival, try the following:

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-- If you are not registered on the Discussion board, click here

Winter Carnival HQ

Treasure Hunt Headquarters

Treasure Hunter's Guide

Kings Commons

Camo Crue

For a complete list of treasure hunting resources, visit our links page.


The Here and Beyond

All the clues from all the years are now available. They're not currently as perfectly explained as they ought to be, but we're getting there. As time permits, the clue descriptions will be cleaned up and anecdotes will be added to make you laugh and clap. The individual hunt pages through the 1970s are dynamically generated by the web server, and may contain links to the more recent hunts, whose content differs from the static pages; At the moment, we're working on getting all of the supplemental information into the same dynamic page engine as the clues are. As we do, more of the site will be converted to the dynamic pages you currently see, and links may be temporarily broken as a result. If you ever find anything that offends you, don't hesitate to write and complain. No malice or poor taste is ever intended in these family-friendly pages.


One of the more recent representative images of the hunt from the Pioneer Press. For a look at Winter Carnival button designs from past years, see Ron Young's excellent St. Paul Winter Carnival button collection or another keep-it-simple button index reminiscent of the earliest days of the Web.