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

wolram · Mar 18, 2016

Any one want to play a game, the rules are simple some one gives some clues then one has to find the building at that point, you must show you have found it by positing the google map image off the building.
Try this.
It is in Warwickshire England
It moves in the wind
A box one keeps valuables in
Part of Her
A heavy weight
If you solve the clues you go next.
This one should be easy

phinds · Mar 18, 2016

Just FYI we had a long thread on exactly this some time back. I think it just petered out after a while. Maybe you'll get it going again.

EDIT: oh, wait. That thread was based on a picture of each building, not a description.

wolram · Mar 18, 2016

phinds said:

Just FYI we had a long thread on exactly this some time back. I think it just petered out after a while. Maybe you'll get it going again.

EDIT: oh, wait. That thread was based on a picture of each building, not a description.

Give it a go phinds

phinds · Mar 18, 2016

I took this while it was still under construction

wolram · Mar 18, 2016

phinds said:

I took this while it was still under construction

View attachment 97531

It is not the answer phinds

ProfuselyQuarky · Mar 18, 2016

Is it the Chesterton Windmill? It fits the first 2 clues, but I'm not sure about the rest. I don't even know if it counts as a building

phinds · Mar 18, 2016

wolram said:

It is not the answer phinds

Ah. I misunderstood your comment. Thought you had changed your mind and decided to go with pictures.

wolram · Mar 19, 2016

ProfuselyQuarky said:

Is it the Chesterton Windmill? It fits the first 2 clues, but I'm not sure about the rest. I don't even know if it counts as a building View attachment 97534

You got it Profusely

ProfuselyQuarky · Mar 19, 2016

wolram said:

You got it Profusely

Yay! So do we continue this game?

Sophia · Mar 20, 2016

This should be easy-peasy

All roads lead there
a place of amusement
a place of suffering
witnessed history
now depicted on a coin

wolram · Mar 20, 2016

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=c...sch&imgil=f7zd-UEcrndMLM%3A%3B9yycT2Dcp2ut1M%
Best i can figure.

By the way profusely's turn

Sophia · Mar 20, 2016

wolram said:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=colosseum+image&rlz=1C1TEUA_enGB499GB499&tbm=isch&imgil=f7zd-UEcrndMLM%3A%3B9yycT2Dcp2ut1M%
Best i can figure.

By the way profusely's turn

exactly :)

sorry, profusely

wolram · Mar 20, 2016

Sophia said:

exactly :)

sorry, profusely

Sorry i broke my own rules and did not post the (google maps) image o:)

ProfuselyQuarky · Mar 20, 2016

Oh, that's okay, @Sophia, I didn't even realize that it was my turn

**Here we go:

It's located in Southern California,
On top of a hill,
Near a big white sign,
Let's you see far, far away

**My apologies for my inability to muster up a poetic bunch of clues. I hope I didn't give too much away.

Sophia · Mar 20, 2016

ProfuselyQuarky said:

Oh, that's okay, @Sophia, I didn't even realize that it was my turn **Here we go:

It's located in Southern California,
On top of a hill,
Near a big white sign,
Let's you see far, far away

**My apologies for my inability to muster up a poetic bunch of clues. I hope I didn't give too much away.

do you mean this?

ProfuselyQuarky · Mar 20, 2016

Sophia said:

do you mean this?

Not that . . . something very near that sign, though.

(something more appropriate for PF

)

Sophia · Mar 20, 2016

ProfuselyQuarky said:

Not that . . . something very near that sign, though.

(something more appropriate for PF )

this? :)

ProfuselyQuarky · Mar 20, 2016

No . . .

Okay, so one of my clues was "Let's you see far, far away" and then I also mentioned that it's "more appropriate for PF". Here's another thing: when I said "near" I meant that it was within the same park. Does this help?

wolram · Mar 20, 2016

Is it the Giffith observatory, sorry i can not find an image

ProfuselyQuarky · Mar 20, 2016

wolram said:

Is it the Giffith observatory, sorry i can not find an image

Right, Wolram, you got it

There was really no image for it? Wow, that place it supposed to be a landmark.

wolram · Mar 20, 2016

Hmm, i wish i was wrong now i have to think of another place

ProfuselyQuarky · Mar 20, 2016

wolram said:

Hmm, i wish i was wrong now i have to think of another place

You have the entire world at your disposal. I'm sure you'll think of something :woot:

wolram · Mar 20, 2016

Okay, this place is a horse race in dear baby England
It is noted to be crooked on top like Al Capone
It is a place where people go once a week

collinsmark · Mar 20, 2016

wolram said:

Okay, this place is a horse race in dear baby England
It is noted to be crooked on top like Al Capone
It is a place where people go once a week

Is it this?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/C...86,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x6c755df23546b6ba

My logic:
Horse race in dear baby England is a reference to Derbyshire, England.
Has a crooked spire.
Some people go to church once a week.

wolram · Mar 21, 2016

collinsmark said:

Is it this?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/C...86,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x6c755df23546b6ba

My logic:
Horse race in dear baby England is a reference to Derbyshire, England.
Has a crooked spire.
Some people go to church once a week.

Well done i did not think that was easy.

ProfuselyQuarky · Mar 21, 2016

@collinsmark It's your turn now

collinsmark · Mar 21, 2016

There is a city. Some have called it big and others think it's easy. Perhaps it's both.
Within the city is a neighborhood. If Blanche had exactly one grandparent from France, this neighborhood's name would be that part of Blanche.
Within the neighborhood is an outdoor place, a 2-dimensional cube, so to speak.
It shares part of its name (no family relation) with the surname of a king of sorts.
This king is the king of something, where this something goes by another name for a sugary soda drink, and is the sound a balloon makes when it bursts.

Where is this place?

wolram · Mar 21, 2016

Heck this is a tough one collinsmark, i have parts of it but the rest ?

wolram · Mar 21, 2016

Is this it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Square

collinsmark · Mar 21, 2016

wolram said:

Is this it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Square

Close, very close, but no cigar.

And when I say close I don't mean geographically close. It's not, technically, geographically that close. (Same country, but totally different region [your guess was a place in Anaheim, California]. This thread is ultimately a google maps thing, remember, so I figure location is of utmost importance.)

But it is conceptually close.

wolram · Mar 21, 2016

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x70a9d06bd0dcb5c2

My second try.

collinsmark · Mar 21, 2016

wolram said:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x70a9d06bd0dcb5c2

My second try.

You got the city and the neighborhood correct at least! :woot:

But the [outdoor] place, is well, you haven't got that yet.

It's in walking distance though! Look around the map and maybe you'll stumble upon it.

1oldman2 · Mar 21, 2016

Just a shot in the dark, is this getting closer?

wolram · Mar 21, 2016

1oldman2 said:

View attachment 97675 Just a shot in the dark, is this getting closer?

Do you have it on google maps !oldman2

1oldman2 · Mar 21, 2016

wolram said:

Do you have it on google maps !oldman2

I actually was using G earth, it's Jackson Square with St. Louis Cathedral in the French quarter. but not sure if that's correct. I still can't get all the clues to fit

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