PAST HUNT ARCHIVE
2025 - Pumpkin Spice Among All Things Baker
CLUE #01
A smidge from west begins the blend,
Then fertile paths rise toward the flame.
Where measured hands and curves extend,
The circle seals the dish with flame.
A whisper unfolds from scroll's edge,
While gusts arrive with pumpkin spice.
A scret sworn in seeker's pledge.
As amber leaves fall soft and nice.
EXPLANATION: The streets that surround the park and a hint at Baker. Heading east on Morton (smidge). To the elbow bend at Waseca (Dakota word meaning fertile path). North to measured hands and curves (traffic circle at Baker and Waseca). Bellows (gusts arise). Page (scroll's edge
CLUE #02
She danced through war with silent grace,
A shadowed star in foreign light.
Her steps concealed a rebel's face,
A whisper cloaked in silent fight.
Within the city's winding limits,
Where river carves its quiet way.
How to discern which skyline fits?
The treasure waits in greened array.
EXPLANATION: Josephine Baker, park is within city limits, capitol view Cafe between Cherokee Heights Park and Cherokee Heights elementary
CLUE #03
A hero so small yet so bold,
He waits beneath a numbered street.
With gadgets and stories retold,
While villains grow weary of defeat.
Jealous of another's tales carved in lore,
His box hums with beats old and new.
This one guards a hidden door,
While dreaming of his own debut.
EXPLANATION: Danger Mouse / Baker Street. Danger Mouse lives in a pillar box near 221b Baker Street. Dr. Watson throws stones at them in apparent jealousy. Danger Mouse is an American musician and record producer.
CLUE #04
Above the green, the elder stones stand,
Its bones of brick, its breath of flame.
It holds the weight of many hands,
And whispers still the builder's name.
A shadowed wing beyond the core,
Where echoes hum in tempered grace.
It lends its shape, but asks no more,
An extended limb that guards the space.
EXPLANATION: Needs confirmation: this explanation appears to belong to Clue 5. Hobey Baker / Baker Mayfield
CLUE #05
He glides like frost on a flame,
A hero carved in silent grace.
A failed test would end his game,
Find the puck in ivy's face.
He throws with fire and speaks with bite,
A scurvy dog in skull and bones.
They all scoff, he loves the fight,
Solve the link, if you have the stones.
EXPLANATION: Needs confirmation: this explanation appears to belong to Clue 4. The WPA Building Annex. Baker Rec Center is attached to Cherokee Heights Elementary School.
CLUE #06
A traveler strange and profound,
his scarf a trail through shifting light.
He offers sweets where clues are found,
then vanishes deep into the night.
Through October's mist he strays,
past drums that echo through the skies.
The leaves conceal his winding maze —
but which key hides where truth lies?
EXPLANATION: Tom Baker the 4th Doctor Who
CLUE #07
A violin's notes through midnight's hum,
Books lean like minds that never slept.
The 221 be where questions come,
A worn trail from whence you crept.
What breathes beneath the silent trees,
Where stories turn yet none are told?
A whisper caught on autumn’s breeze—
Where they converge, you'll find the doh.
EXPLANATION: Sherlock Holmes' 221b Baker Street address / Elementary school
CLUE #08
He spun from wheels that once were stealed,
A solo path, his sax revealed.
The city called with haunting tune,
A foggy lane beneath the moon.
From stuck in the middle, he broke away,
A wistful walk where shadows play.
Two roads diverged—one loud, one sweet
Now name the link beneath his beat.
EXPLANATION: Baker Street/Page/Bellows. A 1978 hit song by Gerry Rafferty. Hints to the corner of Bellows and Page.
CLUE #09
Go for the dub, three men in a tub,
One gripped a blade with a deadly show,
The last struck sparks with a fiery rub.
Search for the one needing doh.
Between the blood and wax he stirred,
A scent of warmth within the trees.
Where phantom tunes still turn the leaf,
And breath escapes on quiet breeze.
EXPLANATION: Rub a dub dub 3 men in a tub. Baker/Page/Bellows. Hidden in a multi trunked tree. Medallion is inside a tub of play doh.
CLUE #10
Branches hum a magickal tune,
A heavenly stairway beneath the moon.
Kindled roots in shadowed swoon,
Echoes whisper what’s opportune.
Real prize lies not where children cheer,
Rackets clash with nets and spin.
Earth holds joy both sharp and clear
Courts below, where brine meets grin.
Past cukes that sour and echoed calls,
A wooded seam, half heard, half seen.
Reading breath where silence sprawls
Know the page where truths convene.
EXPLANATION: BAKER REC PARK. Strip of woods along the trail below the playground and across from pickle ball court. A ZoSo sign at corner points the way (Page/magickal). Along Page at Bellows, under a shelf mushroom shaped like an ear.
WHERE IT WAS FOUND: Baker Park and Rec, in the strip of woods along the trail below the playground and across from the pickleball court, along Page at Bellows.
WHAT IT WAS FOUND IN: A Play-Doh tub in a multi-trunked tree, beneath a shelf mushroom shaped like an ear.
WHO FOUND IT: Ed Brodie.