FARGO - The man of stress in the Island Park Ramp has one less secret to keep now that the final Treasure Token was taken off his hands.
After three years of playing the Treasure Token hunt, the Reiser-Erickson family discovered the location of the Day 3 token around 12:30 Saturday afternoon on the top level of the Island Park Ramp.
"It was hidden behind a rain gutter," said Jerry Reiser of Turtle Lake. "I didn't spot it so much as felt it back there."
Mike and Nichole Erickson and their 8-month-old, Quinn, were having lunch at the Fargo Street Fair with Jerry and Deb Reiser when they learned the third clue: "Behind a tall bout of stress hides a token free of any duress."
"The running joke was that he (the man painted in the ramp stairwell) is holding up the whole thing," said Mike Erickson, 34.
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The family spent at least an hour a night reading over each day's clues and trying to find the tokens' locations.
"I really should have known where the one yesterday (Friday) was," Mike Erickson said. "I knew it was a blue boxcar and that Northern was a fish."
The family - Jerry and Deb Reiser; Mike, Nichole and Quinn Erickson; and Natalie Reiser, 23 - intend to use the $500 prize to go on a family vacation. And if there is any money left over, they'll use it toward a pony for Quinn and a new fishing rod for Grandpa Jerry.
"It's not even about the money anymore really," Jerry Reiser said.
"We just enjoy the challenge of the hunt," Nichole said. "That's the best part."
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