City wide Brown Deer scavenger hunt ends, winner finds medallion after 5 clues
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The first city-wide scavenger hunt in Brown Deer is over. The lucky winner found what thousands had been looking for after five clues.
Justin Foren isholding in his hand on Friday what's now a treasured piece of Brown Deer history.
"I said, 'oh my God, I found it I found it,' and there was a guy right next to me like 'did you really, did you really?'" said Foren.
That's Foren moments after he found it.
And that's his buddy who was there when Foren spotted it in thick grass.
"A little excitement and a lot of shaking after that, trying to calm myself down," said Foren.
Foren walked us to the exact spot at Village Park where he uncovered this much sought after medallion around 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
"It was extremely muddy just from all the rain and obviously, it was tucked in there really tight, it's also a lot smaller than I imagined," said Foren.
Hidden well, but if you looked at just the right angle, you could see it tucked beside the fence that surrounds Brown Deer's swimming pond.
The fourth clue said 300 feet from the old schoolhouse, that gave searchers a nice radius.
CBS 58's Michele Fiore asked, "Did you measure that?"
"Yeah, on a map. Did it on a map if someone would've known what I was doing," said Tyler Burkart, Village Manager.
Clue number five mentioned a link, and Foren just knew a fence was involved.
We looked in the rocks, we looked in the planters, we looked under the stairs. I would say I had a few sleepless nights trying to figure out where this was," said Foren.
This is the text he sent his wife, later surprising her that he was the one who won.
Those who lost are sorry it wasn't them, but give respect to Foren who got out there at 5:00 a.m. Every Tuesday and Friday right as the clues were being released.
"We lost because we got up early enough, but we decided we needed to make coffee to really get out of bed, so by the time we got here, they'd already found the medallion, so I blame coffee," said Mark Toth, searcher.
But the game did what it intended to do - it brought people out.
"I've been seeing the people all over the place. There were people down over there. People in the bushes over here, People all in these bushes everywhere, just searching," said Isaiah Matthew, Brown Deer resident.
"And we met so many friendly people and had some great laughs with them. Good community building and we learned a lot about Brown Deer, some parks that we were not aware of," said Christina Toth, searcher.
Foren plans to split the prize money with his friend who was there when the medallion was located. He doesn't know yet what he'll do with his half of the prize money, but the other prize, the medallion, already has a place of honor right on his desk.