Scavengeroogle: A Google Maps Scavenger Hunt To Waste More Of Your Time On

Those that joined in after 9:45 PDT missed out a big goof by me. My apologies for the screwup with the pants picture that didn’t load. Or maybe I should have just said I was testing to see if everyone was awake, hehe.

Regardless, of that TWO people actually solved the clue without even using the picture! I had to laugh like hell. Chris R, who is often first or near first in solutions every time, said:

The pictures not loading…. but didn’t need it.

Man, that is one scavengeroogler. And Mike M, who is similarly fast in solutions said:

the map wouldnt load, but I knew where to look and was able to get it.

This is amazing that the main focus of the game, which is having a graphical clue to know what to look for, isn’t actually necessary all the time! This sort of tells me that the word clues are as important as I thought, even more important than the actual picture at times! I mean, theoretically I could just say “I’m looking for a picture of a Bowl Of Soup somewhere in Kansas” and someone could probably find it! Interesting. I’m not going to do that, but still very interesting.

This was extremely difficult to find a word clue. I knew that anything mentioning “Cherokee Expressway” would be too easy, because the expressway isn’t that long and the clue is so large. But when I was researching “The Trail of Tears”, it wasn’t immediately apparent that the end of the trail (in Tahlequah, by the way) would be enough information, and that even to say the clue was northwest of it would leave a huge area to search. I thought saying “Tulsa” would also be too easy because you can nearly see the clue just from looking at a satellite of Tulsa. This was tough.

I’d also like to mention that I don’t know nearly enough about the tribulations that Native Americans have gone through (except that it was truly horrible), but that I’ve always wanted to read more about it someday. Mark G writes:

When I was a teenager I learned that I was part Cherokee. So I know the story of the “Trail of Tears” fairly well. I searched for a map of the trail and it ended just SE of Tulsa, OK. That’s where I started my scrolling binge around Tulsa and found it about 10 minutes later. I’ve never been so happy to see some other dude’s pants in my life.

Phil M used a method that I find helpful sometimes, which is the side to side sweep, especially if there is something in the clue such as a road that is at a particular angle:

This has to be one of the tougher ones that I had seen. I have been trying to figure out this since early in the day. I had the right area (Tulsa) butI just couldnt seem to find the “Pants”. I used a side to side search to find this one. I like these tough ones.

I do like the tough ones as well, but to avoid my the “my ass being kicked” scenario I try to make them at least somewhat doable.

Jason C did the right thing and actually looked for freeways. I thought more ppl might try this way, but I believe that I didn’t include enough of the double lane freeway in the graphical clue. Dang.

Took about 45 mins. Checked along all the freeways in Tulsa and somehow missed it and found it while doing a more thorough search.

Mike Z got it just before the bell:

Found it just in time. I figured out Tahlequah, OK at the very beginning, but just knowing that it was somewhere NW of Tahlequah had me searching lots of areas. Actually, I can’t figure out why I didn’t come across this sooner considering it’s right in Tulsa. I thought I searched that first. Oh, well.

Truthfully, I’m not going to disallow your solution if it’s a couple minutes after the deadline. In this case, where it was my fault the picture wasn’t posted, I’d take the solution an hour after.

Well, I guess it’s back to the drawing board for me. Hopefully, Friday’s clue at 10 PDT will be not as bad! Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I gotta launch that one an hour later cause I got some stuff to do in the morning… see ya then!

Solution to “His And Hers Pants”