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

Yep, that’s two National Parks in a row. Maybe a third on Wednesday? Well, maybe not. In any case, most people didn’t have too many problems with this one. Average time was around 10 minutes. Mike Z’s original clues were going to have something like: “Basalt and Danish Hall”. His explanation:

Basalt is a kind of rock. A danish is a kind of roll. With that you have “Rock and Roll Hall” which is a reference to the Rock and Roll hall of fame in Cleveland. The location of the clue is actually between Cleveland and Akron. This one contains a couple potential red herrings as there are a few towns and other geographical places that are named Basalt or Danish.

Coming up with “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” from the word clues wasn’t hard, but finding the II from just that would have probably proved very difficult because there is a lot of space between Cleveland and Akron. So I decided to focus on the park instead.

I think I am in the minority of never having been to Ohio. Well, I haven’t really been east of Kansas really, unless you count Boston and New York for a week each. Brian G:

Quick one today! Only a couple minutes. Familiar with the Cleveland area, so I knew to go there right away. I’m interested to hear the original clues!

And Ken S:

I found it quickly. I’ve been to Cleveland many times. 6 minutes

Jim M decided to make the game more interesting and find his own numbers:

Didn’t start until after the clue drop - so it made much easier for me - about ten minutes to find it.

However, before finding the “two” I also found, in the same general area, a roman numeral three.

Not as clean as the two, but it caught my eye.

That was pretty cool. A lot of people note that they “find” new potential clues while playing the game, which is something that I’m thankful for as it keeps fresh clue submissions coming in.

I had included the road in the clue shot so I figured people would pick that out once they had the general location, and Jarret R did just that:

Took about 10 minutes of roaming around the park looking for horizontal roads.

Some other comments. Katie N wrote:

I guessed that it was in the National Park because of all the trees, and not somewhere else in the county. I searched around for a while, and was about to wait for a clue drop when I saw it.

Daniel M:

That was way too easy. It literally took me about 3 minutes. Just typed “Cuyahoga” in Google and got a bunch of listings for Ohio. Turns out there’s a Cuyahoga National Park that shows up at 6/15 visibility on the map image. Too easy.

Tim R:

Simple google search led me to the cuyahoga county Ohio. From there I figured it
was probably in Cuyahoga National Park. Took me about 10 mins. Now, time for class.

Justin:

I googled “Cuyahoga” and got found out it is a county in Ohio. Then while I was searching in that area I saw Cuyahoga Valley National Park and I found it in there. It took about 10-15 minutes.

I did search on Google, but I figured there would be enough ambiguity that not everyone would go to the park right away.

Mark G got the solution and also sent in the following note:

I like nachos.

I certainly do too! But the cheese makes me poopoo funny sometimes…

Steve M sent a weather report from Oregon with his solution. Yeah, it has been blastingly hot here, though that’s normal since I basically live in a desert that is only green because we steal all the water from Northern Cal and the Colorado River. Although we HAVE had a crapload of rain this year, more than Seattle up till now.

I found it pretty quick in about 10 min but i also had both clues . I came in a little late on this one. P.S today is one of our first sunny and hot days here in Eugene Oregon this year.

Man, I would like to move to Oregon. Or Washington. Or Idaho. Anyhow… Ok, see you all Wednesday at 9

Solution to “Two Much Fun”