Canlis Clue Review Part IV: Stage One Concludes with the Final Five!
Clue 46: Use an eclipse to make a period, but red, white, and blue would be out of character for the first and last of its kind.
Location: Discovery Park lighthouse.
Eclipse, period, and character are lighthouse terms. The lighthouse at Discovery Park was the first and last manned lighthouse in the Sound. It flashes red and white only. The brothers later posted a follow-up hint: “Bikes are best or bring a friend, there is no parking at the end.”
Clue 47: Who’d have thought Gato would look so graceful, but Micah must have known.
Location: The Fin Project at Magnuson Park.
This clue was posted a mere four minutes after the previous. A double clue day! The peace-promoting biblical verse Micah 4:3 reads: "They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks." The Fin Project at Magnuson is made from decommissioned submarines, one of which was named Gato. Each “fin” has a plaque that names the sub it came from, and the name of an Orca in Puget Sound. “Grace” is the name that is on the Gato fin.
Clue 48: Wake up and take your vitamins.
Location: The Rainier brewery.
This was a visual clue, with this photo of the Rainier 12-pack box set in a window frame posted alongside. So easy. The catch? The clue was posted at 3:44 AM. Winner Scottie Houghton set up his Twitter/phone to go off. When it woke him, he ran to his car, still in his pjs and claimed the menu, enjoying an early morning celebratory brew. For once, the Canlis brothers weren’t there, but left a note and a number.
Clue 49: Eagle red! As seats, eyes rest.
Location: Olympic Sculpture Park, at the typewriter-eraser sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Most people got the reference to the giant Alexander Calder statue called Eagle, but only a few got that the words were an acrostic for “eraser.” (Use the first letters). This one was a true Cinderella story–with only one menu left to go, Team Menu Impossible, who created their own blog about the menu hunt, was victorious. Finally, a post that didn’t end with their trademark “Fail!” No word on how the three of them are going to decide which two get the meal.
Clue 50: May the past provide you (with clues to guide you) great pride for what’s ahead! 4:6:3, 1:3:2, 21:3:11, 45:9:2, 18:4:4
Location: Kerry Park
The first number in each series refers to the number of the clue, the second to the number of the word in the clue, and the third to a letter in that word. So for 4:6:3, the #4 clue was "Six stars and a red bikini: when is the moon a mile away?" The sixth word in the clue is bikini. The third letter in bikini is k. The four following series resulted in the letter e-r-r-y. The resultant word was thus Kerry—for Kerry Park.
Devout menu hunters were camped out at Kerry Park, waiting for the clue to drop, on the hunch that the iconic park would be the site of the last clue. Best guesses were right: the Queen Anne boys would stick close to home on the anniversary, a wet, rainy night. They had a hard time hiding it with so many people. They had to hike up from the street below to avoid detection. The winner Nathan Fenno found it in 15 minutes, just over the fence to the left of the statue.
