5/9/05 | 2:00 pm | Solution: Spiral Stairs
As opposed to the previous three clues, this one was blastingly hard! Absolutely no solutions at the halfway point. I can claim some innocence here; those were the word clues as given by Charlie…
I was originally going to change the clue to something like “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, Mon” but I think that may have been even worse!
The clue drops seemed to help somewhat, but not nearly enough. This was just a hard clue through and through.
So, does anyone know what the spiral thing(s) in the middle of the track are? I was wondering if it was just decoration or what.
I had seriously underestimated how many other “Monmouth”s there were around the country. JoJo says:
Got started on this one after the 2nd clue drop. Only took a couple of minutes to get Monmouth but a google search led me to Illinois. And it wasn’t till I saw monmouth park racetrack that it became easy. Only took about 20 minutes but that was after the helpful 2nd clue.
and Justin says:
It took me a long time, around an hour off and on. After the clue drops I looked up towns called Monmouth, and then I searched for horse tracks in towns called Monmouth, and it was pretty easy from there.
I thought the “oval-ness” of the surrounding area might help, but Michael J notes:
Very frustrating. I had Monmouth for a loooong time and finally found the grass color from the pic in Monmouth country, NJ. Checked out the city of Colts Neck and the surrounding area, and couldn’t believe how many oval tracks there were. Guess it must have been a horse track. Overall, before and after the clue drop, total time about 45 minutes.
I was wondering if anyone would try the accent as a clue. Shawn D:
About 5 minutes. Started out in Jamaica, N.Y. at the mouth of the river. Then I took a different take with Monmouth University (thank you March Madness)…
But only a few got it that quickly. JCP said:
Found it in about 5 minutes. If you live in the area (I live in NYC, cousins in NJ), theres no way you could not know this given the clue.
So it seems the majority of solutions came at a cost timewise. Here are other comments:
Tim R:
I worked on and off for three hours. I probably spent between 1.5-2 hrs working on
this.
Mike M:
more than an hour……turns out I didn’t need the “horses” clue, just realized it was monmouth university
Chris R:
Wow. For some reason that was tough. Didn’t get the Monmouth connection for a long
time.
Dang, the perfect “15 minute average” clue continues to elude. Anyhow, thank you for playing and for sticking through the tough ones. One note: I’ll return on Wednesday morning with a new clue. Have a good break in the meantime!
