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.
  • #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.
 

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