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

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    Scavengeroogle is a scavenger hunt game where you use Google maps to find the location of a particular graphical clue. (see us in Wired Magazine)

5/20/05 | 1:30 pm | Solution: The Seahorse

I am having some problems with my web connection today, so I’m putting up this solution while I still can. But regardless, this seemed to be a fairly good clue. I’ve never been to Craters of the Moon Nat Park, but it’s on my list of parks to visit. About 6 years back, I actually went and purchased a National Parks Pass for like $50 and then proceeded to visit about 12 of them on a trip from California to Colorado, including Mesa Verde, Bryce, Arches, etc. It actually saved quite a bit, because I think the entry fee prices have skyrocketed, I think Bryce was like $15 or something. Anyhow, some of you have been to Craters of the Moon. Angie S says:

I had a lucky advantage with this one. My husband and I accidently came upon Craters of the Moon on a car trip a few months back. So I immediately started there. With a little wondering around I found it. I’d say it took 15 minutes. PS - Craters is really weird and cool. Worth checking out

I actually have been to both Crater Lake in Oregon and Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is where quite a people went to first as I suspected they might. There were other craters that people visited also. Katie N. wrote:

This took me about 30 minutes. I first checked Crater Lake National Park and then the Lunar Crater in Nevada before I discovered the Craters of the Moon National Park.

Shawn D. said:

Took about 20 minutes after trying to color match areas around Crater Lake, the Barringer Crater, and all of the craters around Winslow, AZ.

Many people found it only after a short search, I guess this one was not as tough. Tina wrote:

That was fun. Took me a few minutes to figure out the park. Took longer to actually find the seahorse.

Josh C notes:

This was a fun one, took about 5-7 min. My own private Idaho, google Idaho craters, follow 93/26 southwest from Arco, wander around the dirt for a few minutes.

Brian G:

The Craters of the Moon place looks pretty cool. Nice and easy clue today, after not much time to spend on the ones earlier this week. About 5 minutes.

And a few took a couple minutes longer. Mike M writes:

Got a late start, but still only took 10 minutes. Looked in Crater Lake, OR before finding the Craters of the Moon Nat’l Monument.

Jason C:

Took about 2 mins…after the region clue drop. Didn’t consider the whole clue at first, went looking around Meteor Crater here in AZ, that also fit in with the surrounding topography of the pic. Total search time: 1 hr and 2 mins

And Michael J:

Took longer than it should have. Tried all sorts of plays on the words, such as combined sounds, words like luna, lunar, desert, hidden. Can’t believe it took me over 30 minutes to think of Craters of the Moon Nat. Momument.

Well, I’m still thinking about doing a multi-clue extravaganza. I think if we do one it could be maybe sometime after Memorial Day. I was thinking people would go out of town during the holiday so they wouldn’t get to play… so anyway, yeah if you haven’t seen it yet please leave comments about having a “Real” Scavengeroogle Hunt See you all Monday at 9!

Solution to “The Seahorse”

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  1. Mike Z Says:

    Well, I showed up very late today (5 minutes before the end), but I can say it took only 10 minutes although I had the advantage of seeing the clue and “Idaho” at the same time. I was also thinking Meteor Crater in AZ initially. It took about 7 or 8 minutes to find “Craters of the Moon” and get the latitude and longtitude of the place. The actual search itself only took 2 minutes.

  2. Phil M Says:

    Damnit, I missed today’s clue because of a job interview. Oh well, theres always next week.:)

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