06/04/2026
Folks, what do you say we have one more competition for the 2026 Hunt? Flood the comment section on this post with all of your photos along the way, also with memories that you built with you friends, and family, and maybe hopefully you lined some new friends as well! These will be voted on by the most amount of likes/hearts/wows on each one. We also would love to know how many miles were covered, how many steps, how many sleepless nights were spent with clues running through your head.
no limit to the amount of videos, or photos posted. The more the merrier
Prize categories. prizes still to be determined.
*Best nature photo
*Best old building/structure photo
*Best strategy photo, your war room, your note book etc
*Best odd find photo
*The most pictures posted
*Best new memory from the adventures
*Best idea of something to add to the next
Encourage your friends and family to vote! Even if they didn't participate this time.
So far $5400 were given out for this Hunt. This last competition will boost that number!!
This was very fun for us, a ton of planning, and thought went into this, we are so thankful people dove right in and played!
🧩 THE HUNT – HOW THE CLUES WERE SOLVED 🧩
Many of you asked how everything connected, so here’s the full trail — main clues, bonus clues, and all the twists.
original video link https://www.facebook.com/reel/1993446108047700---
📍 **Clue #1 – Butler County**
**Location:** Harry Street Nature Trail, Andover
“Over and over” = Andover
“Sign of the Times” = Harry Styles → Harry Street Nature Trail
“Hollow” = Hollow tree
🎁 **Bonus Clue for Box #2**
6 + 7 + 2 + 0 + 5 = 20
**67205** was the ZIP code.
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📍 **Clue #2 – Sedgwick County**
**Location:** Riparian Woodlands Nature Trail
🎁 **Bonus Clue for Box #3**
The numbers matched letters of the alphabet:
19-21-13-14-5-18 = SUMNER
3-15-21-14-20-25 = COUNTY
This spelled **Sumner County**.
It had nothing to do with trail directions — it was meant to throw people off.
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📍 **Clue #3 – Sumner County**
**Location:** Wellington Lake / Cub Scout Trail
“Napoleon would feel defeated”
= Defeated by the Duke of Wellington
“No cookies”
= Scouts
“Badges”
= Cub Scouts
🎁 **Bonus Clue for Box #4**
“Do I hear banjos?”
= Winfield Bluegrass Festival
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📍 **Clue #4 – Cowley County**
**Location:** Timber Creek Nature Center, Island Park
🎁 **Bonus Clue for Box #5**
The first paragraph had no meaning.
The second paragraph said:
“I wear what I lose”
= Antlers
= Elk County
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📍 **Clue #5 – Elk County**
**Location:** South Park, Howard, KS
“We’re raising the STAKES…”
“You only get two words: Orange. Squid.”
The answer was the orange squid mural at the Howard pool.
🎁 **Bonus Clue for Box #6**
Answer #1: Care Bear
Answer #2: Bieber born in 1994, *Independence Day* movie in 1996 → 1995
Answer #3: Love
Answer #4: Tender
Together, these led to the TLC song from 1995:
**Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls**
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📍 **Clue #6 – Greenwood County**
**Location:** Eureka Lake / Bachelor Falls
Video clue:
Part 1 sounded out as **Archimedes**
Archimedes coined the phrase “Eureka!”
Part 2 sounded out as **Bachelor**
= Bachelor Falls on Eureka Lake
🎁 **Bonus Clue for Box #7**
“Old Elgin” = Elgin Hotel in Marion
“Stone remembers rail and time” = Historic railroad / historic stonework
“Soldier’s Fox” = Francis Marion, known as the Swamp Fox
“Prairie, Lake, and Lime” = Marion Reservoir and limestone
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📍 **Clue #7 – Marion County**
**Location:** Broken Bridge Public Use Area
“Dig a little DEEP” led hunters into the Wordle puzzle, which pointed to **Broken Bridge**.
🎁 **Bonus Clue for Box #8**
“A lone fence post” didn’t mean anything — it was just something for the riddle to nail itself to.
The answer was **1872**, the year Harvey County was established.
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📍 **Clue #8 – Harvey County**
This round used several puzzles:
Puzzle #1: 12 differences
Hint: Divide by 4
Puzzle #2: Match pairs
Hint: Unscramble
Answer: Rope Bridge
Puzzle #3: Arrange 1–8
Hint: “Man, I thought we would STUMP you with that.”
Puzzle #4: Sudoku
Hint: “Now get off your high horse.”
Puzzle #5: Four groups
Hint: “We think it’s time to visit Doc Adams.”
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📍 **Clue #9 – Chase County**
The final box was hidden in plain sight from the beginning.
The words in **ALL CAPS** throughout the main clues were:
TIMBER
ARCHES
HIGH
STAKES
SKY
DEEP
Google those words in order, and the first result leads to:
**PrairyArt Path – Matfield Green, Kansas**
That was the final destination.
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🎉 Congratulations to everyone who searched, solved, drove back roads, explored parks, questioned every word, and stuck with it until the end.
The bonus boxes were fun…
But the main clues were the map all along. 🏴☠️
Until next time. 😉
Thanks to Everyone at Augusta Rental Inc, STC Sporting Clays, and Eric On Tap Media who is always my right hand man on my goofy ideas when it comes to building things out like this.
