Ryan Philbrick won The Eagle Medallion Hunt on Thursday for the second time in three years, putting to rest a treasure hunt that stretched into the final day’s clue.
Philbrick — surrounded by dozens or other hunters — found the medallion Wednesday evening at Cessna Park East, a Wichita park near Mount Vernon and Woodlawn. He had focused his search at Cessna since Monday, after he deciphered an earlier clue based on an idea that came to him in the middle of the night.
The Day 3 clue said, “This one’s the third” and “second minus first equals nine.”…