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.
  • #501
OCR said:
Got it, but how ?... that was kind of a piss-poor clue... :redface:
Googled on "started" with the date, and it was on the first page.
 
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  • #502
Jonathan Scott said:
Googled on "started" with the date, and it was on the first page.
:check:... Yes, that's why I included the date. The "clue" was way to vague .....:doh:

Nice work, though.....:thumbup:
 
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  • #503
I hope you are all enjoying All around the world, sorry i have not been on, i have been to depressed, any way i am waiting for the next clue:biggrin:
 
  • #504
wolram said:
I hope you are all enjoying All around the world, sorry i have not been on, i have been to depressed, any way i am waiting for the next clue:biggrin:
Its good to hear from you again, I believe the ball is in Jonathan's court. We await the next riddle. :bow:
 
  • #505
1oldman2 said:
Its good to hear from you again, I believe the ball is in Jonathan's court. We await the next riddle. :bow:
I was assuming it was OCR's turn. I've not got a lot of time for creating puzzles.
 
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  • #506
Jonathan Scott said:
I've not got a lot of time for creating puzzles.
Well, I've not got a lot of skill for creating puzzles.

Carry on.....:oldsmile:
 
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  • #507
No shortage of modesty in this thread, someones got to post a riddle. :biggrin:
I've not got a lot of time for creating puzzles.
Well, I've not got a lot of skill for creating puzzles.
 
  • #508
I have loads of time to create riddles , but i am not very good at it, but here goes:

They say a big man created this path, and there is some thing very unusual about it, where is it?
 
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  • #511
wolram said:
Darn it i knew that was to easy.
Well, your sneaky trick to make it my turn again seems to have succeeded!

Between my day job in IBM software support and running a couple of orchestras I don't seem to have a lot of time to be imaginative, and when I do find the time I prefer to use it thinking about physics. However, I'll try to come up with something soon.
 
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  • #512
A garden in covered enclosures, or rather a project. Where?
 
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  • #513
Eden project, St. Blazey, Cornwall England ?

Eden project.PNG
 
  • #514
1oldman2 said:
Eden project, St. Blazey, Cornwall England ?
Yes, that's it, well done. (Did you spot "Eden" in "coverED ENclosures" for confirmation?).
 
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  • #515
Jonathan Scott said:
(Did you spot "Eden" in "coverED ENclosures" for confirmation?).
Only after the fact, but that was an awesome way to sneak in a clue. I'll start working on another riddle but first I'm going to watch the Soyuz/Galileo launch, looks like the countdown is going smoothly, hoping for a "good show" :rocket: :smile:
 
  • #516
Thomas Jefferson and his secretary of treasury got together with James Madison near Manhattan there was a river, name the river. :cool:
 
  • #517
Do you mean the wallabout channel?
 
  • #518
No. :sorry:
 
  • #519
Did the river name start with a "P" ?
 
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  • #520
Pepper Mint said:
Did the river name start with a "P" ?
Followed by o and 5 more letters?
 
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  • #521
Pepper Mint said:
Did the river name start with a "P" ?
no :sorry:
 
  • #522
Jonathan Scott said:
Followed by o and 5 more letters?
No :sorry:
 
  • #523
There are only three rivers around the Manhattan vicinity...the Hudson river, the Harlem river, and East river...

As for which one can potentially be the answer, I haven't a clue.

Perhaps none of them :biggrin:
 
  • #524
ProfuselyQuarky said:
Perhaps none of them :biggrin:
:smile: Good call.
 
  • #525
1oldman2 said:
:smile: Good call.
Good, I didn't think so. Carry along :oldlaugh:
 
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  • #526
Are we talking about the "compromise of 1790" meeting at 57 Maiden Lane? If so, that was actually in Manhattan, and although Maiden Lane followed the course of an old brook (which for a while ran down it), I can't find any reference to its name.
 
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  • #527
Jonathan Scott said:
Are we talking about the "compromise of 1790" meeting at 57 Maiden Lane? If so, that was actually in Manhattan, and although Maiden Lane followed the course of an old brook (which for a while ran down it), I can't find any reference to its name.
That's very good but consider another Manhattan.
 
  • #528
I don't know of any other Manhattan which could be relevant to this. (I started by looking at avenues and other streets, and I also investigated whether Manhattan in Montana would fit the rest of the clue, but couldn't find any connection).

The meeting was supposed to result in the capital being moved from the Susquehanna river to the Potomac river, but as far as I can see neither was particularly local to the meeting locality.
 
  • #529
Jonathan Scott said:
whether Manhattan in Montana would fit the rest of the clue
sooo close... "A river from three peoples names", Jefferson's secretary of states name was...?
 
  • #530
1oldman2 said:
sooo close... "A river from three peoples names", Jefferson's secretary of states name was...?
I was thinking of Alexander Hamilton, from 1790, but clearly you were thinking of Albert Gallatin, in which case the location is Three Forks, where the three rivers merge to form the Missouri.
 
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  • #531
Jonathan Scott said:
the Missouri.
:smile: well done, I guess at this point the clues are obvious.
 
  • #532
1oldman2 said:
:smile: well done, I guess at this point the clues are obvious.
Interestingly misleading! String quartet rehearsal this evening, so will try to think up new one tomorrow.
 
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  • #533
Jonathan Scott said:
Interestingly misleading!
nearly a "catch-22" approach for a riddle, but with the search engine aspect almost a necessary evil. It does have the benefit of encouraging "out of the box" reasoning though. Hope your rehearsal goes well, there are few things in the world finer than good music done properly. :music::ok:
 
  • #534
Today the weather was unexpectedly very pleasant, sunny but not too hot, so we spent most of the day at some gardens only a bit more than half an hour's drive away, looking at the amazing rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, as well as lots of other types of flowers and trees. We also paid the extra for the other family activity at the same location - what is it? It's come up before on the forums.
 
  • #535
P.S. Q: What has big red flowers and is extinct? A: A Dododendron.
 
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  • #536
Is this an ex-thread? Should I bury it with the dododendron?
 
  • #537
Jonathan Scott said:
Today the weather was unexpectedly very pleasant, sunny but not too hot, so we spent most of the day at some gardens only a bit more than half an hour's drive away, looking at the amazing rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, as well as lots of other types of flowers and trees. We also paid the extra for the other family activity at the same location - what is it? It's come up before on the forums.
Is bee keeping involved?

 
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  • #538
Jonathan Scott said:
Is this an ex-thread? Should I bury it with the dododendron?
Sorry, AFK and MIA for a few there. :sorry:
 
  • #539
Jonathan Scott said:
We also paid the extra for the other family activity at the same location
Zoo... ?

Or, petting zoo... ?Lol, yeah I know... wrong! .....:oldtongue:
 
  • #540
collinsmark said:
Is bee keeping involved?
Sorry, no.
 
  • #541
OCR said:
Zoo... ?

Or, petting zoo... ?
Sorry, no. It shouldn't be necessary to guess, and I've already given a clue to confirm the name of the place.
 
  • #542
Jonathan Scott said:
Sorry, no. It shouldn't be necessary to guess, and I've already given a clue to confirm the name of the place.
:frown: Hmm.
 
  • #543
1oldman2 said:
:frown: Hmm.
It's not meant to be difficult; if you Google for a garden with the relevant types of flowers near where I live it's probably going to be the first hit. It's a big place.
 
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  • #544
This has got to be "it" :smile: http://www.exbury.co.uk/
In this case I was misleading myself by making it more difficult than need be. (Not the first time that has happened :doh:)
 
  • #545
1oldman2 said:
This has got to be "it" :smile: http://www.exbury.co.uk/
In this case I was misleading myself by making it more difficult than need be. (Not the first time that has happened :doh:)
Yes, that's the right location, as hinted here:
Jonathan Scott said:
Is this an ex-thread? Should I bury it with the dododendron?
So what do you think the additional family activity was?
 
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  • #546
Jonathan Scott said:
So what do you think the additional family activity was?
Of course the first guess would be the train ride, however I'll begin looking for alternate answers now.
 
  • #547
1oldman2 said:
Of course the first guess would be the train ride, however I'll begin looking for alternate answers now.
Yes, it was the steam train ride. I'll never be too old for that.

Over to you again...
 
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  • #548
back soon
 
  • #549
If all goes well, on new years day 2019, this lone "Planet" will visit a new local. name the local.
 
  • #550
Are you stretching "All around the World" into the Kuiper Belt, then?
 
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