9/13/05 | 9:34 pm | Solution: Alien Antenna
The power outage in L.A. wrecked havoc with our daily scavenger hunt clue. I think it was down for approximately 8 hours or so, and then when the site went up again the mail was still down so I couldn’t tell who had submitted solutions! Ugh. Anyhow, so this is a 1.5 day long daily clue because you need to subtract 8 hours or so from it. Other than the downtime, there weren’t too many hiccups except that the word “sego” was spelled “sega” originally.
Aaron B was first on the board:
The clue seemed pretty simple to me. The most trouble I had was in locating where the heck the bugger was.
but anyway, one of Joktan’s sons is Ophir and the Sega Lily is the state flower of Utah. Put them together and you get Ophir, UT! Then there is the searching… It was a lot farther west than I thought it would be
~25 minutes or so
Shawn D roogle-netted a herring when trying to figure out the word hints… he went to the Arabian desert, but at least got some learnin’ in:
Good clue, not too tough. After a brief stint in the Arabian desert, I found a Google reference to Ophir (son of Joktan) and Mormon prophecy. Tried Utah, it’s the same basic background color as the Arabian desert! That’s not fair.
Anyways, a little searching near Salt Lake and viola!
About 10 minutes.
Got a Hebrew lesson, a lesson in Morman prophecy and a Yemen geography lesson.
That’s what makes this so fun.
Thanks.
Jon G noted the mispelling of the word sego (interesting that other people frequently misspell this too which is how a lot of people still found it:
Took me about 30 min. A search of Joktan brought me to a wikipedia article of his 13 sons and through these I thought it was in Yemen, even though there is no high-res there. Finally I somehow found out the Sego (with an o, not an a) Lily is the official flower of Utah. After guessing Utah city names of Joktan’s sons, I came across Ophir, Utah. Not too far west of this town I found the Alien Antenna.
The funny-named Cheese roogler decided to play:
Finally got one!
About 45 minutes - nice
Tim J searched for towns named Ophir. Interestingly, when I went on my trip to Colorado, we went offroad on a 4 wheel drive trail that took us up to about 13,000 feet. Coming down from that crazy trail, we passed through a town called Ophir…
Googled Joktan, learned one of his son’s was Ophir, then searched for various towns around the world named Ophir. About 15 minutes total.
Mike B also found it through Ophir:
A little Googling found a family tree of Joktan listing his children, including Ophir. Then found that sega (sic) lily was the Utah state flower. Headed west from Ophir, UT. 10 Minutes.
Heather G persisted and got the roogle solution, congrats!
I finally got one! Thanks for posting a non-bounty!!! Joktan had a lot of sons, so that took awhile…the hardest part was the sega lily…once I figured out that the plant is actually called the SEGO LILY, I was home free. Took about an hour total.
Mark L had a similar near-herring experience in another country. That’s one reason I decided to drop “U.S.” as a region early on…
That one took me on a wild goose chase! When I saw how many sons Joktan had (10) I just looked around Saudia Arabia….. from the background I thought this could even be in a low res area. The misspelled word got me….. as soon as I put “sego lilies” in, it took me right to Utah….. started looking through the sons names at that point for a city name (Ophir).
Jordan got it soon after the Roogle network came back up online:
This one was prety fun, took me about 15 min. I tried to get on the site this afternoon and it was down, and so I figure I got caught by the blackout.
Bernd roogled elsewhere before getting the solution:
after the USA hint maybe 15 minutes….was searching in Israel and Saudi Arabia before
Judy B notes the difficulties of roogling in and around the work hours. One more reason I’ve considered doing daily clues as 2 day affairs:
Started early, but then my stupid boss made me do some stupid work (hate that) and when I came back the site was down. Started again this morning and got it in a couple of minutes. Of course by then, there were extra clues.
Vic W didn’t need Joktan to solve the clue. He also notes that it may be part of Dugway:
It took me one minute to solve. I don’t understand the “Joktan” reference but “Sego Lilies” cause me to immediately think of Utah. The background looked like desert so I zoomed into the area south of the Great Salt Lake and west of the mountains. There it was. It appears to be some Dugway Proving Ground facility.
Katie N was another 2nd day-er who got the solution quickly:
I’m glad you kept this one up today. I saw it yesterday morning, but I was busy and thought I would have time to solve it in the afternoon. I kept checking back and no scavengeroogle - how sad! But luckily you left the clue up and it only took me a few minutes to find ophir, ut
Luke P was also fast on the draw:
Took about 10 minutes. Looking up Joktan on Wikipedia gave me a list of his children, and looking up Sego Lillies said they are a flower primarily in Utah. I put in the childrens names with the word utah in google till I found Ophir was a town. After that, it was about 5 minutes of searching till I found it. Good clue! Lots of fun.
While hunting for the antenna, Sara D also found a copper mine or two. That thing is enormous…
Good clue! Found the area in less than 2 minutes but then took a while to locate the actual spot… anyone notice the Bingham Canyon copper mine just NE of Ophir? Apparently it is the largest man made excavation on the planet! Very cool… to geo-geeks anyway =)
Oh boy. I am worn out from this clue… not so much from Roogle as you will, but from all this nasty power outage downtime. Whew. Anyhow, I hope to put maybe 1 or 2 more bounties up in the next couple of days or over the weekend. I might get a daily in on Friday or so, but don’t count on that. How’s school going for you college kids? Is it exciting and new? I hope it is…
September 18th, 2005 at 10:04 pm
Yes, but what on earth is that thing? A half mile long black box with some weird little buildings in the middle? And a little pool of water to one side and a weird asterisk shaped thing just to the South? What could it be? Weird. I can’t believe that I roogled all around it and somehow missed it. Oh well!