Saturday has come and gone, like it does every week and will continue to do. Least Dangerous Game has finished the weekend with success. The $15 Punch Pizza gift certificate has been claimed. Here is how it happened.

Slightly before noon was on the table, and the first general clue was sent out.

East of the river.

Simply meaning, if you were in Minneapolis you’d be well served to get your behind over to the St. Paul area. If you need me to explain this more, then you will never win. Let’s continue.

OK, 1 Al wed nothing

You may be asking yourself what that means. Anybody? Anybody? It’s a phone number.

My hiding space this week was the Minnesota Historical Center Library. The phone number of said location is 651-259-3300. Go ahead and look at your phone. It all works out, with “nothing” equaling “00.”

Time passed as it is known to do. At 12:15, I sent out this nugget.

I’m New Here

A simple search of the internet with “I’m New Here” and “Minnesota” will show you that the Minnesota Historical Center Library hosts a class every Saturday on how to use the library. Dewey is probably involved in the proceedings.

By 12:30, I am pouring over a book about the before and after of the Twin Cities. Old pictures versus new pictures of the towns. It is fascinating. Before I become to fascinated, another clue goes out.

TRACEABLE RHINOS RETRY NOISY MINT

Another anagram. It’s Minnesota Historical Center Library! Don’t let a rhino in though. They will make a lot of noise, and make photocopies when they are not supposed to.

At this point, our winner cracked the code. But they had to still get to me. At 1:00, what would be the final clue went out.

A type of berry, for the unlearned.

If you call it a “li-berry,” you need to stop that.

At 1:20, Alan showed up in the quietest room I’ve ever been in. Alan, if you recall, won Least Dangerous Game on April 28th. This makes Alan our first double winner!

The fastest time record still stand. Mark from Chicago holds on to his record of 1:10 in the Foshay hunt.

So congratulations to Alan! He will be enjoying delicious pizza! If you have never been to Punch Pizza, you are missing out.

Be prepared for next week’s Least Dangerous Game! We have another wonderful sponsor with a prize valued at $50! And everyone who comes after the winner will receive benefits as well! Get ready to come and meet other players! It will be a great Memorial Day weekend!

Having spent the evening at Treasure Island for bachelor party antics, I may well be nursing a hangover today. But that won’t stop me from hiding. Maybe on the floor of someone’s basement with all the lights turned off. That is not a clue.

Hopefully someone will be actively looking for me this week. The $15 Punch Pizza gift certificate is in play once again. Come and find me already!

And to help you find me, I’m wearing another wonderful Threadless t-shirt. Cast your eyes upon the picture below.

That’s right. The Batmobile lost its wheel. I can only assume the Joker got away.

The game starts at noon, so get your running shoes on. That is not a clue.

Perhaps, when the day is through, you’ll be having some pizza on Least Dangerous Game’s dollar. Get ready!

It looks like people were actively searching for me on Saturday, as showing in Paul’s comments on the previous post. It looks like he ended up very near by on chance alone.

It also looks like Twitter had some data farts on Saturday. Ooooo, data farts. I bet I can market that! Anyway, here are the two clues that were sent, but never received and published by Twitter.

This Cashew is Now a Zune

The actual exhibit at the Soap Factor was titled This Mango is Now an iPod. Cashews and mangos are both of the Anacardiaceae family. That’s a flowering plant bearing fruits that are drupes. Who knew?

And now, on to my favorite clue.

Will you find me, or will the AFRO TACO SPY?

Afro taco spy is an anagram for Soap Factor. It turns out that I love anagrams.

Anywho, there is what you missed, for what it’s worth. Get your thinking caps on for this coming Saturday, when we do it all over again!

The day had finally come. It was an extremely pleasant day in the Twin Cities, with temperatures hovering at about 70 degrees. Sitting in the shade would bring a smattering of goosebumps to your exposed skin. On this lovely day, no one in the Minnesota metro area found where I was hiding.

More probably, no one was properly looking. The clues weren’t terribly hard, and a quick search of Google would have revealed much. But the difficulty isn’t properly observed from my own eyes. Let’s see how the events unfolded.

Taking off from my home at 11am, I down 394 East. 94 would have been my rode of choice, but it is summer and that means road construction blankets the city like the first heavy snow of the season. Reaching downtown Minneapolis, I crossed the mighty Mississippi by way of Hennepin Avenue. My target for the day was in the Minneapolis Riverfront District. Before I settled down for four hours, there was a prize to be purchased.

Punch Neapolitan Pizza is where I picked up the $15 gift certificate that nobody claimed. It’s a shame, as Punch makes pizza so good you’ll cry until your abdomen cramps up.

With gift certificate in bag, it was time to walk to my hiding location. This week’s hiding spot was the Soap Factory on 5th Avenue and 2nd Street SE.

While the Soap Factory was once an actual soap factory, it is now a gallery for artists. Here, this blurb says it better than I will:

The Soap Factory supports artists and their work not only by providing exhibition and studio space on an unprecedented scale, but also by providing a skilled staff to aid artists in realizing new work, by paid stipends to both artists and curators, and by securing press articles and critical reviews of shows in a unique gallery space with a national profile.

There you are. An art gallery that I had never heard of before. The perfect setting for the week’s Least Dangerous Game. Let’s get into the clues. The first one was set out at noon, as expect.

Very near the river.

A simple and vague clue started the day. “East of the river” or “West of the river” didn’t seem appropriate for the day. I was two or three city block from the Mississippi. Very near indeed.

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Welcome to another week of Least Dangerous Game on a beautiful day. The Twin Cities gods, who will now be known as Tcods, are really smiling on us overly polite people who don’t know how to merge today.

But I know what you’re really here for. At noon today, you will be searching for my throughout the Twin Cities for some sort of $15 gift certificate that I haven’t picked up yet, but will by the time you find me.

And to help you find me, I’m wearing another wonderful Threadless t-shirt. Cast your eyes upon the picture below.

It’s a bright yellow shirt with a sheet of prizes on it, like those in the back of old comic books.

Now that you have the image of me dancing around your head, warm up your Twitter account and wait for the first clue from Least Dangerous Game!