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

Citizen’s original word clues were “Port Fore Blue Jays”, Port was for Airport, Fore was for the Golf Course and Blue Jays for Toronto. I decided to change them at first because I wasn’t sure how easy it would be. So I originally had put the word “Golf” in my word hints sort of reluctantly and when Markus B. found it quick enough a few minutes after I launched it, I took that as a sign and went ahead and omitted it:

Darth Vader. Took me two minutes.

This was clearly the easiest clue ever on this site. I googled Blue Jays, got Toronto, typed it in the the Google Maps search field and it was almost right there in the middle of the city.
No idea what the Golf part of the clue means

Some of his fellow Finns (I think you are Finns, sorry if not) also solved it. Antti L said:

Took about 15 mins, I looked at the wrong golf course at first and almost quit.

and Janne Kaki notes:

I found out quite soon that blue jays was all about Toronto, though it took some time - maybe 8 minutes or so - to locate Mr. Vader, even if he wasn’t so far away from the Skydome where I started my ‘roogling.

Mike B went to a herring first that I was definitely worried about… it was the main reason I put “Golf” in the clue at first - because of Centennial College:

Wandered around Centennial College in Toronto for a while, then found Centenial Park on Google. About 10 minutes all together.

Mark L went a little astray with a different team for a bit:

Blue Jays…… thought of the Toronto baseball team…… it was the 100 years part that didn’t make sense.

So…..

Looked around John Hopkins (the Blue Jays) they’ve been around for 100 years for sure! Background looked wrong…. decided to give Totonto a shot anyway…… Viola! There it was…… about 30 minutes total time.

And Tim J also flopped around like a herring for awhile:

It took about 20 minutes, after a futile search around Baltimore, MD, home of the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays of the Centennial Conference.

Roogler Tina has returned:

Been busy with summer classes, but glad to be back. Took maybe 5 minutes. Got right to Toronto, spent a few more minutes finding him.

Yeah, I have been thinking about everyone going back to school soon… we might get a bit of a dropoff of regulars from that. I guess we will see!

Jon G roogled it through and also gives some information on the buildings themselves…

Took about 30 min. Immediately thought of Toronto from Blue Jays part of clue, but kept looking for something with century with no luck. I finally came up with centennial after seeing Centennial College, and through google found Centennial Park, and Darth Vader was lurking nearby. I believe the buildings are office buildings of TD Financial Group, parent of TD Waterhouse which a lot of people should recognize. Another side note is that TD Financial group is celebrating 150 years this year, which is known as a sesquicentennial, linking right back in to the clue.

Trecherus noted something that I had also seen originally… there is a weird pacman shaped lake or something nearby. Once I had noticed this, when i tried to attempt a refind I found it too easy because I remembered the Pacman lake… interesting.

This one took less that 5 minutes. Fastest I have ever found one. I saw Blue Jays and thought I’ll just look around Toronto while my email is downloading and maybe do some more searching at lunch time. I was just about to give up when I saw a pacman shaped lake to the northeast. After thinking to myself this would be a decent submission for a later clue, Darth Vader popped out at me. It looked like a ghost chasing pacman.

Mike K thought this one was a bit easy… I do try to mix ‘em up so we have some hard and some easier. Though often, the easy and hard clues become reversed because of weird herrings or other such rooglisms.

This was a pretty easy clue which surprised me because most of the time the clues are so obscure that I’m surprised any one solves them. In any case the clue made me think of the Toronto Blue Jays. Went to Toronto and searched for a few minutes and found it.

Bounty hunter Aaron B came away with the following sweet herring :

Interestingly enough, I saw the original clue of “100 years of golf, blue jays” which sent me off in the wrong direction totally. I saw a webpage talking all about the golf course at Essex, ON and “100 years of golf” so I was sure it was over there. However, after repeated searching and failure, I decided just to scan Toronto because the color kinda matched and there he was, staring back at me…

That is trippy because of course it wasn’t intended!

I believe Other Chris R. got the solution because he lives in the general area of the clue:

Welcome to Downtown Coolsville. Population: Us.

Dan M solved it fairly quick:

I’ve solved a bunch but thought it was about time to finally report 1! Glad you liked the Glenwood Springs clue.

I don’t know, 15 minutes? Blue Jays made it pretty easy.

and Justin did not strike out easily:

I’m a baseball fan, so I knew to look in Toronto. It took me five minutes to find this.

I don’t know a whole lot about baseball teams but find it enjoyable to watch, especially with the lack of hockey. What’s that you say? There’s going to be a hockey season next year!? Amazing, simply amazing… I am looking forward to certain lines being eliminated on the ice, hehe.

Back to roogle reality. As you may have read, my main PC went kaput today so I am powerbooking this entry. I also had my cellphone break today, and oodles of web and internet issues. Ugh! My wife says it is something about Mercury’s influence or something. In any case, I will try get clues up next week but it is looking like it won’t be until Wednesday or so… we shall see. Have a nice weekend y’all!

Solution to “Darth Vader”