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

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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

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  • 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.

  • #1,141
In the meantime, try solving this one:

Peace unto Queen Calafia
They call me ''The Red''
My sister, in seeded apple
Is made of rock and clay
 
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  • #1,142
Not had much time to look at this one, but I've just had a look now.

First line suggests La Paz in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Third line in conjunction with first suggests La Paz, Granada, Spain (seeded apple = pomegranate = Granada).

I have not made any progress on the second or fourth lines.
 
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  • #1,143
Jonathan Scott said:
I have not made any progress on the second or fourth lines.
Granada in Spain is of course associated with the Alhambra, which roughly means "The Red One", so that might relate to the second line. There is also an Alhambra in California.
 
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  • #1,144
glad you getting this one I am lost
 
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  • #1,145
The clues seem to relate to the Alhambra, but in that case I don't know what La Paz and California have to do with it. Very confusing.
 
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  • #1,146
Jonathan Scott said:
The clues seem to relate to the Alhambra, but in that case I don't know what La Paz and California have to do with it. Very confusing.
Alhambra it is! :partytime: Well done, Mr. Scott!
Over to whoever lol.
 
  • #1,147
tionis said:
Alhambra it is! :partytime: Well done, Mr. Scott!
Over to whoever lol.
Please can you explain the clues?
 
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  • #1,148
Jonathan Scott said:
Please can you explain the clues?

Peace unto Queen Calafia (clue to California's city of Alhambra once you put the other clues together)
They call me ''The Red'' ( Alhambra, means the red one)
My sister, in seeded apple (location of the other Alhambra in Spain)
Is made of rock and clay (Alhambra castle in Granada is made out of rock and red clay)
 
  • #1,149
tionis said:
Peace unto Queen Calafia (clue to California's city of Alhambra once you put the other clues together)
So the word "Peace" was not intended to be a clue at all? That line was just referring to California? And it's just a coincidence that there are "La Paz" locations both in Mexico's Baja California and in Granada, Spain? And the final answer is the Californian Alhambra, not the one in Spain?
 
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  • #1,150
so who's next ?
 
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  • #1,151
hsdrop said:
so who's next ?
We were hoping @1oldman2 would come up with one soon. For the next few days, I have a lot of orchestra stuff to do after work, so I'm not sure when I'll next have time to think of a new one myself.
 
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  • #1,152
ill take the next day or so to come up with a couple of new one in case i get the next one or get a chance to post one up my self
 
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  • #1,153
Jonathan Scott said:
So the word "Peace" was not intended to be a clue at all? That line was just referring to California? And it's just a coincidence that there are "La Paz" locations both in Mexico's Baja California and in Granada, Spain? And the final answer is the Californian Alhambra, not the one in Spain?

The word peace was intended to be a clue, but not in the context of a city, but as an islamic greeting. I was going to use the word salaam, but a quick google search would have given it away too easily. So in the riddle, the city of Alhambra is greeting the state of California in an islamic fashion. Then, she speaks of another sister Alhambra in the following lines which give clues to its location. Because you had already figured out that it was either the one in Spain of Cali, I didn't see the point of pressing you for a more specific answer. :wink:
 
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  • #1,154
ok guys I think I got one for you'll lol

when all saints come marching in
and ask Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?
just remember it not the question but wait you would sit them to look out the colorful windows
I must be mad
 
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  • #1,155
hsdrop said:
ok guys I think I got one for you'll lol

when all saints come marching in
and ask Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?
just remember it not the question but wait you would sit them to look out the colorful windows

I must be mad
All Saints Lunatic Asylum, Apple Valley, California? (It's not the only All Saints Asylum, but seems the most likely one).
 
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  • #1,157
guys really does anyone know why a raven like a writing desk?and here i go thinking that this one was going to be ease :partytime:
 
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  • #1,158
In that case, I'll try another answer which I previously skipped as being too "local" to my area:
The All Saints Lewis Carroll Centre in Daresbury: http://lewiscarrollcentre.org.uk/
 
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  • #1,159
yep you got it now hehe
 
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  • #1,160
hsdrop said:
yep you got it now hehe
The riddle is of course from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It wasn't meant to have an answer, but a later suggested answer was "One is nevar backwards and one is forwords".

It usually takes me a long time to think a new puzzle then write it up, and between work and orchestra stuff (concert in 2 weeks time) I don't have a lot of free time right now so someone else is welcome to have a go.
 
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  • #1,161
Jonathan Scott said:
(concert in 2 weeks time) .

Have you ever played the Game of Thrones theme song?

Easy riddle:

An island without a sea?
This marvel of Li I must see!
 
  • #1,162
tionis said:
Have you ever played the Game of Thrones theme song?
That's just wallpaper music. Not to say I don't like some wallpaper, but that's a subject for another thread.
 
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  • #1,163
ok I have a fun quick one a one liner if you would but you got to think a little to get it lol

when we are thinking of the earth, where is the only place without cardinal directions??

hehe :oldlaugh::wink::cool:
 
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  • #1,164
hsdrop said:
ok I have a fun quick one a one liner if you would but you got to think a little to get it lol

when we are thinking of the earth, where is the only place without cardinal directions??

hehe :oldlaugh::wink::cool:
Well, there's one obvious place (at sea) where there's no North, West or East, only South, and similarly one (on land) where there's no West, East or South, only North. I can't think of one where there are no directions at all.

However, @tionis still has a puzzle going, which so far doesn't say anything to me, but I haven't yet had time to look into it properly:
tionis said:
An island without a sea?
This marvel of Li I must see!
 
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  • #1,165
hsdrop said:
when we are thinking of the earth, where is the only place without cardinal directions??

The Vatican? :-p
 
  • #1,166
tionis said:
The Vatican? :-p
you know as true as that might be no that is not the answer
be side john is right we have to find an answer for your first just to be fair
 
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  • #1,167
Jonathan Scott said:
We were hoping @1oldman2 would come up with one soon. For the next few days, I have a lot of orchestra stuff to do after work, so I'm not sure when I'll next have time to think of a new one myself.
Sorry about being AFK for so long I'll likely be off and on intermittently for the next week or so while I continue my education of "adventures in Neurology", dealing with a recent problem my wife is having. But "I shall return" as the saying goes, carry on and I'll jump in when I can. :smile:
 
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  • #1,168
tionis said:
Easy riddle:

An island without a sea?
This marvel of Li I must see!
Would this be relevant ? http://www.seacliff-ny.gov/ o_O
 
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tionis said:
Absolutely not.
Is it too soon to expand on the clues ?
 
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