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.
  • #851
1oldman2 said:
Is western China too vague? (H. thibetanus)
Is not western China.
 
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  • #852
Having assimilated your response, I feel compelled to request another clue.
 
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  • #853
1oldman2 said:
Having assimilated your response, I feel compelled to request another clue.
lol You already solved one part of the riddle, now just look for the region.
 
  • #854
tionis said:
now just look for the region
So many possible regions. :headbang:
 
  • #855
1oldman2 said:
So many possible regions. :headbang:
Not really. Just look for a place where they are must abundant.
 
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  • #856
tionis said:
Not really. Just look for a place where they are must abundant.

I think we still need another clue please.
 
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  • #857
wolram said:
I think we still need another clue please.
Very well: When Jupiter slayed me, I became a mountain in this region.
 
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  • #858
tionis said:
oldman almost solved it, but for some reason he thinks there is a region of the world called ''Hellebore'' lol.
Lol, would you believe there is ?
Not just the one word ''Hellebore'', but Hellebore Lake ...

It's a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia ... interesting, eh ?
 
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  • #859
What is Asia Minor ?
Back soon, I'm cleaning the latest deer from the grill of my mustang. :frown:
 
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  • #861
1oldman2 said:
What is Asia Minor ?
Back soon, I'm cleaning the latest deer from the grill of my mustang. :frown:
No! why are running over wild life with your stang?:eek:
 
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  • #863
tionis said:
No! why are running over wild life with your stang?:eek:
Certainly not for the entertainment value, :sorry: The upside was, the airbags didn't go off and I was able to drive it home:thumbup:
 
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  • #864
1oldman2 said:
Certainly not for the entertainment value, :sorry: The upside was, the airbags didn't go off and I was able to drive it home:thumbup:
You drove the dear home? How kind of you.
 
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  • #865
tionis said:
You drove the dear home? How kind of you.
Said deer was dispatched as well as launched at what was certainly terminal velocity... I'm loosing my focus here, back to the riddle.
The problem I'm having with the clue is, well Hellebore grows all over the world.o_O
(JS likely solved this some time ago...)
 
  • #866
Alban hills area ?
 
  • #867
1oldman2 said:
Alban hills area ?
No. I'll give you another hint: look it up on Wiki.
 
  • #868
1oldman2 said:
Said deer was dispatched as well as launched at what was certainly terminal velocity...

Sorry about that. That's got to be one traumatic experience.:cry:

1oldman2 said:
(JS likely solved this some time ago...)
He doesn't want to play anymore :frown:
 
  • #869
I will be blowed if i can make head nor tail of this clue:mad:
 
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  • #870
haha.. you guys are too much fun.
 
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  • #871
tionis said:
haha.. you guys are too much fun.

Huh, some people love to see others suffer. there is a name for that:biggrin:
 
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  • #872
Okay i have narrowed it down to a Greek mountain, but which one?
 
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  • #873
Hey up is anyone still playing?
 
  • #874
Okay i have come up with Caucasus mountain range.
 
  • #875
I think it is time to give this one up, or have another clue it has been over a week now.
 
  • #876
wolram said:
Okay i have come up with Caucasus mountain range.
Wrong! Do try again. :wink:
 
  • #878
collinsmark said:
The Balkans?

The Balkans is the correct answer.:partytime: Over to you. :woot:
 
  • #879
Does anyone want to try this one as a fill in.

Here is a quickly if no one minds.

Sounds like mum rose to this challenge, but lost all hope when ben failed to succeed
All you have to do is find all 282 of them.:biggrin:
 
  • #880
As I said when that came up before, that one's too easy; I don't even have to Google it.
 
  • #881
:headbang:
 
  • #882
wolram said:
Sounds like mum rose to this challenge, but lost all hope when ben failed to succeed
All you have to do is find all 282 of them.:biggrin:
Jonathan Scott said:
As I said when that came up before, that one's too easy; I don't even have to Google it.
Actually, checking back, perhaps I didn't actually say that in the thread because someone else replied before I posted it. But it's still true, at least for many people living in the UK. "All 282" is the giveaway (in Google too).
 
  • #883
Okay the board is ready for a new riddle.
 
  • #884
Here's what I hope is a relatively easy one:

This park's namesake is a twisted, spiky organism that, of the Agave family, looks like it did not exit a Dr. Seuss book. (Until recently, it was considered a giant member of the Lily family, but DNA studies in a red hill mining town led to the divisions in god's country.) Look where mothers of the disappeared are running to stand still with or without you. Trip through your wires to get to bullet, the blue sky, before reaching one tree hill. And I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

Please include a map link (or at least some coordinates or something to indicate the location) of the park. If you insist on indicating a particular building where the streets have no name, any building within the park will be accepted.
 
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  • #885
Sounds like a U2 album.
 
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  • #886
collinsmark said:
Here's what I hope is a relatively easy one:

This park's namesake is a twisted, spiky organism that, of the Agave family, looks like it did not exit a Dr. Seuss book. (Until recently, it was considered a giant member of the Lily family, but DNA studies in a red hill mining town led to the divisions in god's country.) Look where mothers of the disappeared are running to stand still with or without you. Trip through your wires to get to bullet, the blue sky, before reaching one tree hill. And I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

Please include a map link (or at least some coordinates or something to indicate the location) of the park. If you insist on indicating a particular building where the streets have no name, any building within the park will be accepted.
Okay, it's been a day and a half now, so time for a hint. (although, @Jonathan Scott might well be on the right track.)

The place you are looking for is a park. By "park" I mean a place where one goes to experience nature and stuff; a place where people are allowed, and sometimes even encouraged to visit, so long as they do not disturb or destroy the nature and natural ecosystem in and of the place. Give me a specific location of anywhere in the park (like coordinates or a Google Maps link).

The name of the park is named after a specific organism. The name refers to the common name of that organism. That organism might be a plant, animal, fungus, bacteria, whatever (I'm not telling you which, that would be too big of a hint).

(Also, there's already a really big hint strewn about original puzzle, quoted above.)​
 
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  • #887
So, let's give this a try --- "Kakadu?"
 
  • #888
Bystander said:
So, let's give this a try --- "Kakadu?"

Sorry, but no. That's not the answer for which I was looking.

There is a Kakadu National Park, yes, but I as far as I know, there isn't an organism called "Kakadu." According to the wiki, "The name Kakadu may come from the mispronunciation of Gaagudju, which is the name of an Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the northern part of the park." So that doesn't quite fit.

The park for which I am looking is named after the organism. You probably have heard the common name of the organism from a different source; a source of which has a hint sprawled about the original wording of the riddle.
 
  • #889
collinsmark said:
The park for which I am looking is named after the organism.

Joshua Tree National Park!
 
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  • #890
Jonathan Scott said:
Sounds like a U2 album.
You got there first lol. Your turn, Mr. Scott.
 
  • #891
tionis said:
You got there first lol. Your turn, Mr. Scott.
Firstly, although your guess is the same as mine was, it hasn't yet been confirmed by @collinsmark and I didn't actually give the answer.
Secondly, my "spare time" is very limited this weekend as I have to create a newsletter, programme booklet and various other publicity materials for my orchestras, so I do not expect to have time to think one up for a few days. I think that @hsdrop might like a go after some close finishes recently.
 
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  • #892
Collinsmark gave you a a like. To me, that is an unspoken confirmation.
 
  • #893
tionis said:
Joshua Tree National Park!
Correct! :smile: Joshua Tree National Park is the answer. (Map link: https://www.google.com/maps/place/J...77eda73aeb9de2!8m2!3d33.873415!4d-115.9009923)

Allow me to explain the hints in the original riddle:

collinsmark said:
This park's namesake is a twisted, spiky organism that, of the Agave family, looks like it did not exit a Dr. Seuss book. (Until recently, it was considered a giant member of the Lily family, but DNA studies in a red hill mining town led to the divisions in god's country.) Look where mothers of the disappeared are running to stand still with or without you. Trip through your wires to get to bullet, the blue sky, before reaching one tree hill. And I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

Please include a map link (or at least some coordinates or something to indicate the location) of the park. If you insist on indicating a particular building where the streets have no name, any building within the park will be accepted.

Here is a description of the Joshua Tree [organism] from the park's own website (https://www.nps.gov/jotr/learn/nature/jtrees.htm):

Surrounded by twisted, spiky trees straight out of a Dr. Seuss book, you might begin to question your map. Where are we anyway? In wonder, the traveler pulls over for a snapshot of this prickly oddity; the naturalist reaches for a botanical guide to explain this vegetative spectacle; and the rock climber shouts “Yowch!” when poked by dagger-like spines on the way to the 5.10 climbing route.

Known as the park namesake, the Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia, is a member of the Agave family. (Until recently, it was considered a giant member of the Lily family, but DNA studies led to the division of that formerly huge family into 40 distinct plant families.)​

The other big hint:

Yes, as @Jonathan Scott hinted at, there is U2 album with the name "The Joshua Tree." If you don't know, The Joshua Tree National Park is a desert park, really. Here is a quote from the U2 Album's wiki page:

Band manager Paul McGuinness recounted that The Joshua Tree originated from the band's "great romance" with the United States, as the group had toured the country for up to five months per year in the first half of the 1980s.[1] Leading up to the album sessions, lead vocalist Bono had been reading the works of American writers such as Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver so as to understand, in the words of Hot Press editor Niall Stokes, "those on the fringes of the promised land, cut off from the American dream".[3] Following a 1985 humanitarian visit to Ethiopia with his wife Ali, Bono said, "Spending time in Africa and seeing people in the pits of poverty, I still saw a very strong spirit in the people, a richness of spirit I didn't see when I came home... I saw the spoiled child of the Western world. I started thinking, 'They may have a physical desert, but we've got other kinds of deserts.' And that's what attracted me to the desert as a symbol of some sort."[4]

The studio album contains the following songs:


I think I was able to fit them all in the riddle.

Okay, @tionis, you are up, unless you wish for somebody else to go instead.
 
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  • #894
Very easy:

Of coup d'etat fame
Reminds you my name
In the state of a little canine
Is where I came to rest.
 
  • #895
Is "the state of a little canine" in Mexico?
The first part doesn't help me; there are too many different coups d'etat.
 
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  • #896
Jonathan Scott said:
Is "the state of a little canine" in Mexico?
The first part doesn't help me; there are too many different coups d'etat.
Yes, it is.
 
  • #897
tionis said:
Yes, it is.
What sort of place are we supposed to be looking for?

There doesn't seem to be enough in the clue to help pin it down any further, but I guess a famous resident of that state would be Pancho Villa, from the Mexican Revolution. Is he relevant?
 
  • #898
Jonathan Scott said:
What sort of place are we supposed to be looking for?

A town.

Jonathan Scott said:
There doesn't seem to be enough in the clue to help pin it down any further, but I guess a famous resident of that state would be Pancho Villa, from the Mexican Revolution. Is he relevant?

Which state are you referring to?
 
  • #899
tionis said:
Which state are you referring to?
Chihuahua
 
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  • #900
Jonathan Scott said:
Chihuahua

Pancho Villa is not relevant. The state is correct, now look for a town.
 
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