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

Hey folks, sorry this is not going to be much of a solution for awhile since my goshdarned email is down again and won’t come up until after i’m asleep probably. Sigh, I don’t know why they plan downtime like this right when the solutions are due to be put up!! I’ll see you in a bit, until then here is the solution…

[Edit: got my mail back up]

Dang you are all smart rooglers! Anyhow, I’ve been plagued by downed email lately so I didn’t get a chance till today to write up the solutions. This wasn’t too hard of a clue, but what was most interesting was its multiplicity. Hm… isn’t that a movie. But seriously, I asked what the buildings were and many people wrote in to give me the 401.

I certainly did a double take when Mark L sent in the first notification of strange things afoot… apparently this clue had many “doubles” which was very interesting and unintentional:

Of course Baghdad was the obvious herring … tooled around there for awhile.
Started putting words together and changing them slightly … Leender golf course in Holland? No hi-res tiles……Leander TX?….. Yep….snuck up on it, and just as I was about to submit it……woops! I realized this clue has an evil twin.

That alone gave this hunt a special twist.

They’re elementary schools….. this builder likes to stick with the same design it appears….. if you look around you’ll see other examples of his work….. he must be quite popular down there in that neck of the woods!

He also found this red one. Judy B. solved it quickly and also noted later that there were duplicates.

You are a sneaky one! I spent a good 45 minutes looking at Baghdad, Iraq. When I revisited the clue and actually read it through a couple of times, I found it in about a minute. Very sneaky indeed!

Jon G solved and analyzed the schools thusly:

Took 30 min. Had no idea what the clue meant, thought that “der” was strange, so I started combining words in the clue until I put leander into google and came up with leander, texas. Bagdad Road was nearby. Also, at first I found the other one Mark L mentioned.

Judging by the one with no buildings around it, and the other with buildings that looked like portables by it, I guessed that they were schools. I did an in-map search for “school”, and found out one was Giddens Elem. School. So, the two “BPs” are elementary schools, the original one is Bagdad Elem. School and the one Mark L found is Giddens Elem. School. It appears that they build a lot of the elementary schools in the area like that. If you do a in-map search for “elementary”, you can also find 2 sideways BPs, one pink and one blue, plus an upside down TP in white/pink that are all elementary schools. Check out the link below for pictures verifying this, which I found through the Giddens Elem. School popup information that appears when you click on the red pushpin thing in google maps.

Leander School District

I bet Leander School District is wondering why in the world they are getting all this traffic all of the sudden, hehe.

Moose chimes in with the following:

Easy one today! I first got caught on a little bit of a herring. I got Leander and Bagdad out of the clue, but I googled Bagdad first. There is a small mining town of Bagdad in Arizona. Fortunately they didn’t have any hi-res imagery. Then I googled Leander and found the place in Texas. I found the BP, and then afterwards realized it was near Bagdad Rd. Great clue! Solve time < 5 mins.

Sorry to hear about your loss, I offer you the deepest sympathy from this ZenRoogler.

Thanks Moose. And woops you almost got herringed in Arizona… I didn’t know there were so many cities called “Bagdad” around. Must be a bit weird when someone asks you what city you live in and you say “Bagdad”…

David H fought off wayward herrings in Pennsylvania:

I couldn’t really put a time estimate on this one, much of the day, I guess. Got it quickly after the second clue (re-arrange the words). Before that, I was reasonably sure that “Dad” was a substitute for “Pa,” meaning that I should look somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Chorbansi eluded the herring police in Delaware with:

Got around to roogling a bit late in the day, so the clue drops were in, took 10
mins. Tried Dover, DE before hitting Leander, TX. The word clue was neat (N Bagdad
Rd). Thanx.

Tim J got stuck on the prime herring for this clue before solving:

5 minutes after the last hint, but wasted 20 mins this morning looking around Baghdad, Iraq

Bryce H also went to Arizona:

it took me about 10 mins. i just searched for cities with names containing bag, dad, der, and lean. i got bagdad, arizona, but there was nothing there. then i saw it said it was in texas, so i searched for bagdad texas and got nothing. But leander texas was a city i found, and the streets are a little diagonal like in the picture, so it had to be there. i found another building that looks exactly like it first, farther south on bagdad road… weird.

Aaron B’s first time with a roogle solution:

First time solving! Huzzah!

sorry to submit twice an extra message in regards to Beep Bop, but I think I discovered what the two BPs are. They are schools. According to this site

The southern one is Giddens Elementary and the Northern one is Bagdad Elementary.

Whew! This was an involved solution because I got a lot of multiple messages from people about the duplicates. Definitely one for the Scavengeroogle memory scrapbook. Thank you all for playing and for the nice words of support… see you hopefully soon with more clues and bounties!

Solution to “Beep Bop”