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[edit] Oklahoma City coin Trail

• Value: $10,000
• This coin was found (when?)

[edit] CLUES

1. Our search begins in the land of the free, go back in time from EST.

   west of Eastern Standard Time

2. The coin is hidden in a place you can see, when you look at land sold back in 1803.

   in the area of the Louisiana Purchase

3. You'll find yourself in the right state, getting hotter, if you're in a place where you can't reach the water.

   landlocked state

4. Okay, so you want another clue? Guess what, we just gave it to you.

   OK = Oklahoma

5. Though it's cold, your search won't freeze, if you keep it below 36 degrees.

   coin is south of 36 degrees latitude

6. Loosen your grip, there's a line in the sand. There's no need to look in this former No Man's Land.

   No Man's Land is the panhandle, which is north of 36 degrees. This clue shoul have been before #5

7. She runs through the southwest, with a great white north name, and marks the southern most line of our treasure-hunting game.

   Canadian River, also known as the South Canadian River

8. It takes just one shift to find the name of your search's new northernmost line: Kpio Ljmqbusjdl Uvsoqjlf

   John Kilpatrick Turnpike

9. Shoot rapids, race cars or travel by train, all in one place, again and again. Amusing as this is, it's not part of your test, the place that you seek is to the south and the west.

   Frontier City

10. North and west you must probe from a place of fear by ornithastrahydrophobes.

    ornith (bird) astra (thunder) hydro (water)= Lake Thunderbird

11. South and west you should roam from where the okapi calls home.

    Oklahoma City Zoo

12. To the north and west your search much be constricted, from the site where for the first time a tornado was predicted.

    Tinker AFB

13. From the place where six continents all bloom, head west and let your search resume.

    Myriad Gardens, or Crystal Bridge

14. Southeast you go without pause, after dits and dahs lead to ahas: .-.. .- -.- . --- ...- . .-. .... --- .-.. ... . .-.

    Lake Overholser

15. If you're close and have the clues in proper order, well then you'll know why you want to go north of Canada's border.

    North Canadian River

16. In a pentagon old glory flies, while nearby kids can a rocket climb. This place resides along the coast and heading south will help you most.

    Stars and Stripes park

17. Two bird nests form a border, staying east of which will make your search shorter.

    Wiley Post and Will Rogers Airports

18. The guardian stands and looks down at a cloven clover leaf on the ground. Now you must head South and West to continue with this contest.

    State Capitol Building

19. South and west of the sovereign and high is the direction you should try.

    Crown Heights Park

20. From four diamonds configured round, head north to where the coin may be found.

    Woodson Park, 4 ball diamonds

21. Southward from this place race, where mother and child do embrace, amid the thorns in the surrounding space.

    Mother and daugher statue in Will Rogers Park Horticulture Gardens

22. Go north and west, and travel fast, from where 102,000,000 cattle have passed.

    Oklahoma National Stockyards

23. The next step toward completing your quest is to keep Bermuda, Acapulco and Hawaii to your South and West.

    White Water Bay Water Park

24. ""Oh,"" you say, and that's the clue. Going west is what you must do.

    OU, Health Science Center

25. Tracking the Okkt you'll learn of its demise. But north of its trail you might find your prize.

    OKlahoma, Kansas, and Topeka Railroad

26. Don't get mixed up, stay alert, head toward 'A Meatloaf Oak Shirt'.

    Oklahoma State Fair

27. To find the coin use this equation. Then travel south from it's location: P = 1/2pπR2v3

    Space Tower at the fair park, had banners promoting OG&E wind power, formula for wind power, except the lowercase p should be the greek letter rho

28. To find the coin for which you strive, walk where you'd ride, jump east and don't dive.

    Horse barns, go east past the bungee jump and Auto show building

29. To process this clue, think like a machine, go north once you find out what these numbers mean: 01010010 01000101 01001110 01001111.

    RENO, in ASCII. There is only one road which accesses the Fairgrounds from Reno Street going due north, and that is Land Rush St., which goes right by the entrance to the State Fair Grandstand

30. You need not be psychic to help you divine. To find the coin just look for a sign. Once you look upon it, then you'll know, the thing you find is found down below.

    Blank Fair Park sign at the corner of Stagecoach St and Kiamichi Place, Confirmed by presence of surveillance camera and tin-snipped wire left on sign post

(answers supplied by redoubt and greenprincess)

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