7/14/05 | 10:29 pm | Solution: Ninja Star
Hey y’all. Sorry I decided to close the clue early because I’m pretty worn out today. Um, well… here is the reason why in case you are interested. I have a close family member who has been battling cancer for a couple years. But lately she’s not been doing so well, so she finally had to come home for what is called “hospice” care. This is basically for terminally ill patients… they neither hasten nor prevent eventual passing. It is supposed to be more a comfort for the patient and for family. (I am new to this but I believe that is what it is)
This is a very close aunt of mine, today was the day they had to bring her back from the hospital. I was over there for about 8 hours helping them get the house ready. They bring a hospital type bed in and everything. They live about 2 minutes away from my parents who live only 10 minutes away from me. It was rough… anyhow, I sort of wanted to explain about that. I’m not sure why I’m telling you all, but this sort of feels like a journal sometimes… so be it! That made me feel better.
Anyhow, back to the clue for today. I used a Mike M clue again, I was totally unsure if it had been found or not. Tried to get Oneida linked in there with Standing Stone People (though I knew that Easter Island, Stonehenge, and the various Romes would be herrings) We had a pretty wide response for how fast it was solved. Here are some of the responses, sorry no comments on them or any particular order…oh yeah, I’ll try post a clue again on Monday or Tues.
Markus B.
It took me over an hour, while trying to work at the same time. First tried to look for cities that have the word ’statue’ in their names X)
John N.
5 or 6 minutes. I just looked up “standing stone people” on google - several of the top links were about the Oneida Indians/territory or whatever, and it mentioned Oneida Lake. Figured I’d take a look around.
Ken S. wrote:
Took me 30 seconds. Fastest one so far. I went right to Rome, NY
Mike B.
About a minute. Googled “Standing Stone People” and got lots of references to updated NY. Tried “Rome, NY” on a hunch, zomed in, and it was right in the middle of the screen.
Max P.
How long it took you: 10 min. (first crack at this though!)
The Beamer
Holy Crap, this was the fastest I’ve ever gotten a clue. I originally tried Rome Italy just for kicks, but the page wasn’t loading.
The only other Rome I could think of was Rome, NY (wasn’t that where one of the woodstocks was held?), and I punched it up - immediately saw the star. I still have no idea what the stone people are about.
Judy B
You weren’t kidding about the red herrings in this clue! It took me about half an hour, but a good 20 minutes of that was looking at Rome Italy. I knew it wasn’t in THAT Rome, but what a cool looking city! I just kept finding more stuff to look at. At least it looks like I’m working!
David H
You weren’t kidding about the red herrings in this clue! It took me about half an hour, but a good 20 minutes of that was looking at Rome Italy. I knew it wasn’t in THAT Rome, but what a cool looking city! I just kept finding more stuff to look at. At least it looks like I’m working!
Jonas M.
30 minutes… started off in Italy with a clue I thought was about Easter Island. Then I got my bearings after googling for “standing stone people”.
Erica
How long it took you: (just for grins) I’d say this took about 10 minutes. I first searched People of the Stone, and I came up with The Onyota’a:ka. I then sat confused until I realised I should put Rome somewhere in the search query. Then I found Rome, NY and found it easily.
Phil M
Took about 10 mins. For some reason I started looking in scotland. Somthing about Roman Standing Stones led me in that direction. Once I looked up People of the Standing Stone, it all fell into place.
Mark L
Checked out Easter Island 1st….. nothing hi-res. Did a Google of “Standing Stone People” and Oneida NY came up….. about 2 minutes looking around there.
Landis
How long it took you: a couple minutes, once I figured out the Oneida were from NY (and known as the ‘Standing Stone People’).
Woo-hoo - I finally got one before the solution was posted!
Katie N
Wow, this one stumped me. I originally thought it had something to do with the druids, so I searched around England for a while. I finally caught on to Oneida, but I thought it was referring to the tribe in Wisconsin. Then I remembered that it probably had something to do with Rome, so I googled Rome and Oneida and found it.
Peter R
Funny thing about this clue is that I saw it about a month ago and was going to submit it, but I had an ADHD moment and forgot about . . . hey look at that bug!
Sorry, back to the topic at hand. Only took about 10 minutes because I completely forgot where it was. Had to check a bunch of Rome’s (GA, IA, WI, PA, etc.) but once in NY, I guessed that it was probably the STANwix monument.
