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

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Discussion Overview

The thread revolves around a game where participants provide clues to identify buildings or locations, requiring players to post Google Maps images as proof of their findings. The discussion includes various clues related to different locations, with participants engaging in guessing and providing feedback on each other's answers.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Debate/contested
  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • One participant introduces a game involving clues to find buildings, starting with a set of clues related to a location in Warwickshire, England.
  • Some participants recall a previous thread on a similar game but note that it was based on pictures rather than descriptions.
  • Another participant suggests the Chesterton Windmill as a possible answer, fitting some clues but expressing uncertainty about its classification as a building.
  • Subsequent clues lead to discussions about various locations, including the Colosseum and Griffith Observatory, with participants confirming or denying guesses.
  • One participant presents a complex set of clues leading to Jackson Square in New Orleans, with detailed explanations of how the clues relate to the location.
  • Participants express uncertainty and challenge each other's guesses, with some providing additional hints or clarifications.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

There is no consensus on the answers to the clues presented, with multiple competing views and ongoing guesses throughout the discussion. Participants frequently express uncertainty about the correctness of their guesses.

Contextual Notes

Some clues are open to interpretation, and participants often clarify their intentions or the meanings behind their clues, which may lead to varying conclusions about the locations being discussed.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in games involving geography, riddles, or community engagement in a forum setting may find this discussion appealing.

  • #571
Jonathan Scott said:
It is indeed. Wuppertal = anagram of "wrap up, let".

Over to you again.

I was hopping 1oldman2 would be around to cast another riddle , if not i will have to have time to think of another.
 
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  • #572
wolram said:
I was hopping 1oldman2 would be around to cast another riddle
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  • #573
Allrighty then, :ok:
She was old, when she was "exhumed" she was named after a girl in a Lennon/McCartney tune dated 1967. Tell me where she was buried. :check:
 
  • #574
1oldman2 said:
Allrighty then, :ok:
She was old, when she was "exhumed" she was named after a girl in a Lennon/McCartney tune dated 1967. Tell me where she was buried. :check:
Near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia.....:check:
 
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  • #575
OCR said:
Near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia.....:check:
:bow: Excellent! but now you know who's turn it is. (Most people don't recognize the "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" connection with her name) :partytime:
 
  • #576
1oldman2 said:
Excellent! but now you know who's turn it is.

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  • #577
OK, ready or not...

Folklore says a small population still lives there, and legend proposes that after a young boy falls into a bonfire, his face is left horribly scarred. He receives the name "Burnt Face", because of this accident... also, there are plenty of what's referred to as counting coup involved in these legends...

Where did these legends originate ?Note: all italicized words are clues, more or less; this is a tough one..... :approve:
 
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  • #578
OCR said:
OK, ready or not...

Folklore says a small population still lives there, and legend proposes that after a young boy falls into a bonfire, his face is left horribly scarred. He receives the name "Burnt Face", because of this accident... also, there are plenty of what's referred to as counting coup involved in these legends...

Where did these legends originate ?Note: all italicized words are clues, more or less; this is a tough one..... :approve:
:iseewhatyoudid: in the Pryor mountains, according to Crow legend (Chief plenty coups ?) live the " Awwakkulé". The story of "Burnt face" or "lost boy" comes from these legends. :bow:(All hail the power of the mighty search engine!):bow: Dang it, how did i come up with the darker letters there?
 
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  • #579
1oldman2 said:
Dang it, how did i come up with the darker letters there?

Lol... you really, really, must have irritated the Little People .....:oldlaugh:

Dang nice job though... :thumbup:. and, I left too many clues.....:oldtongue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pryor_Mountains
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Dang it, how did i come up with the darker letters there?
Lol, I think you copied Awwakkulé from Wikipedia®, and that made all the rest of your text bold... see?

You can just highlight the copied/pasted text and hit the "B" button... that should unbold it.

You can also copy/paste to notepad, recopy, and paste in the reply text box... :check: ? ...:oldbiggrin:
 
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  • #580
If i may slip this one in:

One goes to the country to escape the smog and exhaust fumes to find this.
This equipment is designed to find large sized objects 100s of kilometers away.

Name a place where thees two clues apply.

This one should not take long :biggrin:
 
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  • #581
There must be a lot of sites involved in space surveillance around the world, and most of them are way out in the countryside to get clear skies. For example, there's one at Chilbolton, only a few miles from where I live. Or was the first part of the clue intended to be cryptic in some way?
 
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  • #582
Jonathan Scott said:
There must be a lot of sites involved in space surveillance around the world, and most of them are way out in the countryside to get clear skies. For example, there's one at Chilbolton, only a few miles from where I live. Or was the first part of the clue intended to be cryptic in some way?

Yes the first part is a clue, and it is not space junk:biggrin:
 
  • #583
Jonathan Scott said:
sites involved in space surveillance around the world,
I'm stuck along that line of thought myself however cryptic clues can go down a lot of paths. I think I'll "punt" and see if wolram drops another clue. :sorry:
 
  • #584
Johnathan is all most right, it is not space junk you are looking for but something else that does not orbit the Earth.
 
  • #585
My original thought was a meteorological radar site (for rainfall radar and similar) but the reference to large sized objects didn't seem to fit. I also considered Early Warning Radar systems (for missile attack and similar) but that's part of space surveillance now.
 
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  • #586
Jonathan Scott said:
My original thought was a meteorological radar site (for rainfall radar and similar) but the reference to large sized objects didn't seem to fit. I also considered Early Warning Radar systems (for missile attack and similar) but that's part of space surveillance now.

You are correct by saying it is an icbm tracking station, now what is the name of the station.
 
  • #587
In that case I guess the relevant site (clearly not in the UK) is also part of the space surveillance network after all.
 
  • #588
wolram said:
You are correct by saying it is an icbm tracking station, now what is the name of the station.
DEW line... ?
or
NWS... ?
 
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  • #589
OCR said:
DEW line... ?
or
NWS... ?
Nope think of the first line in my clue.
 
  • #590
Jonathan Scott said:
(clearly not in the UK)
I think that's a clue too, if I'm right.
 
  • #591
Jonathan Scott said:
I think that's a clue too, if I'm right.

That is correct Johnathan,
 
  • #592
Are we talking about Thule AFB in Greenland? o_O
 
  • #593
1oldman2 said:
Are we talking about Thule AFB in Greenland? o_O
No; the clue is specifically quite clear about the correct location.
 
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  • #594
Is it clear now?
 
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  • #596
Jonathan Scott said:
quite clear about the correct location.
A "give away" clue right before my eyes. :doh:
Okay, "I got one!". a place named for a sonnet, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" by John Donne. Name the place. :smile:
 
  • #597
Do you mean the Trinity test site?
 
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  • #598
Jonathan Scott said:
Do you mean the Trinity test site?
Dang your fast! well I guess the "balls in your court" :wink:
 
  • #599
1oldman2 said:
Dang your fast! well I guess the "balls in your court" :wink:
Didn't even have to Google for that one!

But it could take me a while to come up with another one.
 
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  • #600
Jonathan Scott said:
Didn't even have to Google for that one!
Very nice, you know your history :bow:
Jonathan Scott said:
But it could take me a while to come up with another one.
My patience is one of my best virtues, I await the next riddle. :smile:
 

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