Find the Building: Solve the Clues & Show the Map!

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A game is being played where participants provide clues to identify buildings, requiring players to post Google Maps images of the locations once guessed correctly. The game began with clues pointing to a building in Warwickshire, England, which was identified as the Chesterton Windmill. Subsequent clues led to various locations, including Jackson Square in New Orleans and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The clues often involve wordplay and connections to cultural references, such as the "gold lion" representing MGM's logo and the "light" referring to the Luxor Sky Beam. The game encourages creativity and engagement, with players taking turns to present new riddles and locations, fostering a collaborative atmosphere. The discussions also highlight the importance of using Google Earth for better visual context in solving the clues.
  • #271
wolram said:
Here is one to go on with until Profusely answers:
Commissioned by Carl Jacobsen
Commissioned in 1909
Modeled after a ballerina
Sits by the water side
Not far from a star shaped fortress.
...processing... we must be talking about a statue or monument?
 
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  • #272
Now this is what I was referring to about the search engine aspect, not getting an exact location other than Langelinie promenade, Copenhagen Denmark.
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  • #273
Dang it i only read about it today.
 
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  • #274
wolram said:
Dang it i only read about it today.
shame someone tried blasting it from its base recently, I like it nearly as well as "girl and dolphin" by the Tower bridge.
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Stand by I'm working on a "space filler" while I come up with something good.:wink:
 
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  • #275
Hey, quick break + WiFi access = time to check in! (No, I haven’t left on a month long journey to some somewhere like Northern Canada where internet is unavailable. It’s just school stuff.)

Anyway, @1oldman2, you are so incredibly close! Literally, you are 1 hour away from the answer. Think about the university research station. When I say “neighbor”, I mean building-next-to-building. As for Georgia, Georgia has the same type of place that is becoming (or is) as famous as the answer.
 
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  • #276
ProfuselyQuarky said:
Hey, quick break + WiFi access = time to check in! (No, I haven’t left on a month long journey to some somewhere like Northern Canada where internet is unavailable. It’s just school stuff.)

Anyway, @1oldman2, you are so incredibly close! Literally, you are 1 hour away from the answer. Think about the university research station. When I say “neighbor”, I mean building-next-to-building. As for Georgia, Georgia has the same type of place that is becoming (or is) as famous as the answer.
Sweet! I'm on it :thumbup:
 
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  • #277
The only university of any merit i can find in that area is Stanford nothing about sea life though:frown:
 
  • #278
wolram said:
The only university of any merit i can find in that area is Stanford nothing about sea life though:frown:
Yes! Stanford! That's the university! You're close! . . . incredibly close!
 
  • #279
Hopkins Marine Station, i can not find a picture though
ProfuselyQuarky said:
Yes! Stanford! That's the university! You're close! . . . incredibly close!
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  • #280
wolram said:
Hopkins Marine Station, i can not find a picture though[
The Hopkins Marine Station is the neighbor. What's next to it? What place next to it is somewhere you can go and visit fish and jellies and marine creatures?
 
  • #281
Is it the library?
 
  • #282
No . . . it's right next to the Hopkins Station. Literally, I've even been there--less than 3 minute walk

It's HUGE, btw
 
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  • #284
I knew you could do it, wolram! :biggrin: Nice job, too, 1oldman2!

A place to see fish,
A place to see jellies,
A place to see creatures that aren’t ordinary.

Obviously, the place is an aquarium.

Located halfway up California,
It competes with the newbie that’s located in Georgia.

A huge aquarium in Georgia is gaining fame for being the largest aquarium in the world. It's competing with Monterey Bay, which is "legendary".

Its neighbor is a research station,
From a university,
That PQ wants to go to,
Very, very badly!

As you all know, its neighbor is the Hopkins Marine Station from Stanford, and, yes, I want to go to Stanford *badly*

That last clue probably won’t be much help,
But here is the last one: this place loves kelp!

The Monterey Bay aquarium's logo/symbol is a ring of kelp.

So it's your turn, unless you want someone else to go, wolram! :smile:
 
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  • #285
ProfuselyQuarky said:
I knew you could do it, wolram! :biggrin: Nice job, too, 1oldman2!
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  • #286
ProfuselyQuarky said:
No . . . it's right next to the Hopkins Station. Literally, I've even been there--less than 3 minute walk

It's HUGE, btw
ProfuselyQuarky said:
No . . . it
1oldman2 said:
:thumbup:

I think i will let some one else in my clues are rubbish.
 
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  • #287
Here is a quicky:
With vim and vigor these three soldiers flew and defended this land, With anger now this land has peace and an award.
Find the three soldiers.
 
  • #288
wolram said:
Here is a quicky:
With vim and vigor these three soldiers flew and defended this land, With anger now this land has peace and an award.
Find the three soldiers.
Ah! just vague enough to be challenging, let me think... A monument maybe?
 
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  • #289
1oldman2 said:
Ah! just vague enough to be challenging, let me think... A monument maybe?

Not a monument, this puzzle is moor a word substitution game.
 
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  • #290
wolram said:
moor
Clue or typo ?
 
  • #291
1oldman2 said:
Clue or typo ?

Sorry typo.
 
  • #292
The Spitfire had 1 these had 2.
 
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  • #293
wolram said:
The Spitfire had 1 these had 2.
Now were going places,:thumbup:Pretty sure were not talking Triumph sports cars and aircraft has been an obsession with me since childhood. Sorry about the delays in responding but we are working around some time zone differences, patience as " I shall return" :smile:
 
  • #294
Wait, so this is not a "place"?
 
  • #295
ProfuselyQuarky said:
Wait, so this is not a "place"?
post #289 is very relevant to figuring this one out. :smile:
 
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  • #296
This sounds like a specific insect, of which three instances can be found together in only one place.
 
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  • #297
1oldman2 said:
post #289 is very relevant to figuring this one out. :smile:
Hmm . . . perhaps I'm just lost and tired because the idea that we are looking for soldiers reminds me of all the stuff in history class which makes me sleepy (expect WWII, now that's exciting).
Jonathan Scott said:
This sounds like a specific insect, of which three instances can be found together in only one place.
How nice! Have you decided to play, too? :smile:
 
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  • #298
misquito.PNG

Along my line of thinking, Does the DH mosquito figure into this. Spitfires were a single engine These babies are twins.
 
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  • #299
1oldman2 said:
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Along my line of thinking, Does the DH mosquito figure into this. Spitfires were a single engine These babies are twins.

you are are on the right line of thinking but these boys had 2 wings

The Mosquito is my favorite air craft:biggrin:
 
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  • #300
Jonathan Scott said:
This sounds like a specific insect, of which three instances can be found together in only one place.

Not an insect but theses thing flew in one location only.
 

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