4/29/05 | 8:00 am | Texas Pride
Howdy, pardner. Someway or another, all roads lead back to Texas. At least for Scavengeroogle clues. So anyhow, Mike Z. sent in this cool shot of a honest to goodness Texas flag painted on top of some building or other. His original word clues were going to involve sports teams, but he mentioned another angle on it that might be possible and I decided to go with that instead.
So the word clues for this are: “What’s with these homies dissin’ my girl?” You read that right. Homies. Dissin’. Girl.
I don’t think this wouldn’t be such a hard clue, except that the flag is pretty much only visible at 14/15 and isn’t out in the wilderness where it could be easily spotted. So I gave it a “6″ for difficulty. We shall see. Hm… I don’t believe I’ve ever given a difficulty greater than 7. Maybe clues should be on a scale of 1-7…
Oh yeah, resuming the experiment… we’re doing time trials again today. Everyone who gets a solution in before the cutoff gets listed. And of course I may drop a 2nd hint midway through, so if you get frustrated y’all come back then. This clue should launch at 8:00 a.m. PDT if all goes well. You’ve got until 1:00 p.m. PDT. Five hours for a chance at fame and glory. Hup, hup!
[Edit: 10:48 PDT - Clues rollin’ in, so I think we’ll hold off on a second clue for now. Happy friday… ]
Clue Name : Texas Pride
Submitted by: Mike Z.
Status : Solved
Duration : 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDTSolved By: Sara P, Mike M, Tina, Chris R, Ryan, Eric W, Phil, Kristopher W, Daniel M., Greg J, James C, JR F, Brian, Ramy, John F, Carl, Shawn D, Leroy T, Steve A, Mark, Ja, Rick B
Word Clues : “What’s with these homies dissin’ my girl?”
Magnification Needed: 14/15
Difficulty : 6/10
April 29th, 2005 at 10:06 am
I’m interested to know if the people solving this one are from the area. I’m 97% sure that I’ve got the right city, the clue was pretty easy, but I just can’t nail down the street level image.
April 29th, 2005 at 10:13 am
Josh - I am wondering that as well! I didn’t think this many people would get it this quickly without more help. I thought they just might be getting lucky in their choice of where to start. Though some people have taken over half an hour to find it …
April 29th, 2005 at 10:18 am
I’m from the state, but I’ve never been to that area. Just got lucky on the starting point. Tried to find it again without looking at my answer and not having so much luck.
April 29th, 2005 at 10:24 am
It really wasn’t that hard to find the city given the clue, and to be honest it wasn’t hard to find the building either. I’m from MN and I found this thing right away. You just have to center the image and choose a direction to go with. I can see where people can get confused, but in all honesty it really only took me under a minute to find it. Dumb luck perhaps, but either way there is probably others who have gotten it just as fast.
April 29th, 2005 at 10:32 am
Sara - Yeah, sometimes I try to “re-discover” the clues on my own without looking at the solution. Just for grins. It’s tough.. and I already know the answers. Which means I can’t begin to imagine how hard it is to solve a clue from scratch!
Johnny - Avg time for this one so far is 3-15 minutes, so you’re right that people are solving it quick. But I still think that how fast you get the clue may matter where you “start” …
April 29th, 2005 at 11:24 am
I started by just scanning the city (which I agree was very easy), but that took up a lot of time (most of my 30 minutes). Then, I got smart and noticed the tell-tale building next to the target in the clue picture. I then found the building in a couple of minutes. I must say it was very exciting finally solving my first clue. Also, I’m from Texas and have been to the area but I certainly didn’t know about it right away.
April 29th, 2005 at 11:49 am
Easy clue, but it all matters which direction you move.