“It is launching today
It’s the great clue display
By the sea or by land
Or by sky we will play
By car, or by ship
Or by bike or by sleigh
These tips everyday
Will show you the way”

A difficult – but telling clue. In the second and third lines – the words “great” and “sea” are right on top on each other and together “great sea” in Ojibwe is Gichegami or in this case Kitchi Gammi – the shared name with Brighton Beach Park in Duluth

“When you commit to explore
And you’re walking the walk
And you know that you’re near
So you’re talking the talk
But you need something more
A near imminent lock
You’ll be happy to hear
It’s 12 feet from a rock”

The medallion was literally hidden twelve feet from several large rocks serving as borders at Brighton Beach Park (Kitchi Gammi)

“Do your steps match mine?
Do your traipses align?
If I drop you some numbers,
Would it be a good sign?
Let’s try and define
To reach the disc shrine
Find forty seven paces
In a stretch of one line
Then down the path
Keep track of the math
About 100 yards
Turn left on a dime
Take a breath and stride nine
Move seven more times
Then add on a trine”

Obviously, the difficult part of this clue was finding a starting point. The Cluemeister started at the end of one of the straight-line Dairyland fence sections (measuring 47 paces long) – and marched about 100 yards southwesterly on the path before taking an abrupt left – and walking 19 paces down that path where the medallion resided (9+7+3 (trine) = 19)

“This hint only aids,If one is astute
Resourceful, precocious
Intuitive Acute.
Stay Focused
Engaged
Enfolded
And Guided
The discerning will know
Where the cluemeister strided”

This clue is two-fold. ASTUTE, PRECOCIOUS, INTUITIVE, ACUTE, FOCUSED, ENGAGED, ENFOLDED, GUIDED, DISCERNING are all synonyms for the word BRIGHT (as in Brighton Beach). Also, anyone who has those adjective qualities would notice that the clue itself is abstractly shaped like the state of Minnesota – where the medallion was hidden

“A shared name for sure
Adding to the allure
Of this area of frozen and thaw
Dubbed decades ago
For those in the know
One might say it’s from one Murphy’s Law”

“Shared name” refers to two different things. First a reference to the park recently adopting two names for the area – the original “Brighton Beach”, and the addition of the Ojibwe, “Kitchi Gammi”. It is also an, admittedly, obscure reference to the original , more famous Brighton’s Beach in New York that was named by one Henry C Murphy.

“At the risk of soliloquizing
Pontificating or sermonizing
We are asking you, ‘please heed these rules’:

Don’t dig up old bones;
Stay off coastal stones;
Keep away from roped zones;
And away from our schools.

Not on sites with orange cones;
Or private land someone owns,
Like yards of people’s homes,
Or in private whirlpools

Let’s put this up front
To be perfectly blunt
Don’t think this a stunt
Just stay away from Cold Front

Not meaning to assail
But the disc doesn’t hail
On a groomed Ski trail
Don’t be party to that group of fools

Most sincerely we advise
For all gals and guys
To find the cherished prize
These rules are literally tools”

Mostly, as some social media posts lamented, this is a reminder of what not to do in the search for the medallion – including a plea to stay away from the Cold Front festival at Bayfront Festival Park, and off of groomed ski trails in Superior. But two additional lines that were important were “stay off coastal stones” – a prominent feature of the park along Lake Superior; and “roped off zones” is a reference to some newly planted trees nearby in the park that were roped off to prevent people from trudging there.

“Seek out the grounds of two banners
Down the road from huge manors
And pay attention to the words in this mention
Two-thousand pounds of gleaming,
Glistening, Shimmering And Beaming
A feeble, but compound, comprehension”

“Two Banners” is another reference to the park’s two shared names. Also, London Road in Duluth has become known as the location of many large estates built along the north shore of Lake Superior. “Two-thousand pounds of gleaming, Glistening, Shimmering And Beaming – A feeble, but compound, comprehension” breaks down the words “bright” (with additional synonyms of the word) and “ton” (2000 pounds). The Cluemeister admits in the clue that it is a weak comprehension.