It’s time for Joe’s Mildly Entertaining Easter Egg Hunt
I still haven’t run out of places to hide eggs.
And so, today begins the 17th annual edition of Joe’s Mildly Entertaining Easter Egg Hunt.
To accommodate our deadlines, and the fact that we’re no longer producing a print edition on Saturdays, I’ve had to cut the contest to eight days from the traditional 10.
Otherwise, it remains the same: I hide imaginary eggs for eight days and write rhyming riddles with clues to their locations. It could be a tourist attraction, an artwork, a restaurant, a park or other reasonably prominent locations within Ohio.
For example, one of the riddles last year said in part:
Hit them with a well-aimed ball And all ducks will take a fall,
At this place where you can find The largest paddle of its kind,
The answer was the Downtown location of Pins Mechanical, the bar, restaurant and entertainment spot featuring, among other things, duck-pin bowling and the world’s largest Ping Pong paddle.
The Egg Hunt will run through April 11, but there will be no riddle on April 9 (because there’s no print edition that day). After the last riddle is published, email me your answers, numbered one to eight. Don’t send them as an attachment, please.
The Dispatch will award prizes of $75 to each of two winners:
● The first person to email me a set of eight correct answers after the last riddle has been published on dispatch.com. That will be circa 12:01 a.m. on April 11.
● A winner selected in a random drawing from among all the contestants submitting eight correct answers.
All entries should be emailed to joe.blundo@gmail.com and must be received by 1 p.m. April 11.
We accept one entry per household. The solutions to the riddles and the names of the winners will be published on April 17. And, of course, there will be an Egg Hunt Court of Appeals afterward.
Happy hunting.
Joe Blundo is a Dispatch columnist.joe.blundo@gmail.com@joeblundo