9/5/05 | 2:45 pm | Bounty: Spirograph
My last bounty for the holiday weekend before I’m off to the parent’s for a little much needed barbeque action. I am not sure at all what this actually is, but I believe it’s on top of a building and not accidental. It actually reminds me of the beginning of the old Spirograph game that I’ve talked about before. It looks like an octagonal building with two rotated rectangles on the top.
This image might be a little difficult to find because it is visible only at 17/18 and above unless you have really sharp eyes I’d guess. The continent that it’s on is: Asia.
I’m going to reach into my magic bag of old postcards again for the prize for the Spirograph. At stake is a postcard of the city of Jackson, Wyoming. Look at that fanstastic scenery! The back reads: “Southern entrance to Grand Teton National Park, Jackson is supply point for ranchers of the Jackson Hole country. This colorful resort town caters to the vacationists.”
One interesting fact I found on Wikipedia: Jackson contains the world’s largest ball of barbed wire. I didn’t know you could roll barbed wire in a ball. Jackson has around 9000 people living in the town.
I’ve been to Grand Teton Nat’l Park when I was really young, I believe it was on a combination camping trip to Yellowstone National Park. I also used to have some friends at my old workplace who always used to talk about going home to “Jackson Hole“. I’d like to make another visit to the area one of these days.
Ok, so there you go, plenty of bounties for now… I will probably return late this week with a daily clue.
Bounty Name : “Spirograph”
Submitted by: Scavengeroogle Admin
Status : Collected by: Aaron B
Time Elapsed: 2 hours, 33 min
Word Hint : NONE
Continent Hint : Asia
Magnification Needed: 17/18Reward: Jackson Wyoming Postcard from the 70s
(I’ll write more tomorrow, here is the solution)
I had a feeling that this clue would be found before the other ones, because although there are street level maps in Japan I can’t read them. So it’s difficult to tell what areas are what, or if the buildings and stuff are important ones. As it turns out, Aaron B. picked it up pretty quickly and also notes what the spirograph actually is:
After a fruitless search of Hong Kong and a disregard for Taipei (wrong color), I moved over to Tokyo, the other major city in Asia which has a large amount of skyscrapers and, kinda came across it. As to what it is, the building is in the Akasaka region of Tokyo south of the Imperial Palace. It is the area of all the major government buildings. Sure enough, it is a police headquarters.
There are other interesting buildings nearby, particularly one immediately to the northeast that has a similar structure. I guess the “spirograph” nature actually comes from the angles on the palaces and buidings…
