So, having thrown everyone a curve ball with that last photo, here’s another one that Won seems so good at finding:
This is a letter or a number, as far as you know.
You guys play nice. Won, give everyone a few minutes head start. Who can work out where or what this is?
Fine. Won has now proved that no matter how obscure the signage, he can track it down with a minimum of visual cues.
Here’s the photo of the sign he correctly identified.
I have another signage photo, with a cute little Hubris sticker for scale and everything.
You’re not gettin’ it yet. Can’t stand for Won to track it down within minutes.
So this time, I’ve skipped ahead in the order and brought a toughie up for you guys.
It’s indoors.
It’s in a public place.
Anybody can just walk in and see this sticker.
There you go. Good luck.
Okay. Won won. Again. He discovered that the previous photo was from this sign:
I’m sure we’re all suitably impressed.
But now we go to this:
By now, hopefully I’ve learned to successfully eliminate all the tricky little digital clues embedded in the photo info. Maybe not. If there’s something to find, I reckon you guys can find it.
I know I’ve said it before, but this time… surely this is a real challenge. Maybe impossible.
Go for it!
Okay, we’re refining our game here, and things are about to get tough.
I thought the last one was gonna be tough, but Won was tougher. In less than an hour, he figured out that a photo of a Hubris sticker inside the ‘O’ of part of a word that spelled ‘yon’ was actually from here:
Less than an hour- to pin down a specific location like this? Man. Tough.
So we’re having to up the game anyhow.
No more Mr. Nice Guy. I got a couple of photos lined up that’ll take even Won some serious hard-target work to even start a good guess.
Y’all ready for this?
Bam.
Good luck! And remember, they just get harder and harder from here on out.
Oh, and if you need some Hubris stickers to set up your own photos, you just click on the contact button and let me know.
Here’s your reveal photo from yesterday’s photo.
Now, the next one. Nearly impossible. But this game is bound to be tough on us, right?
Okay, all you Googlemeisters with your fantastic digital detecting skills- have at it. I’m perfectly prepared to be amazed. Comments are open for the detecting!
Here we go! The ‘U’ logo is a clue. And the “Ioan & Martin GXXXXXXX entre for Fine Arts” sign should be Googleable or something, right? (Googleable is MY word. I get credit. Adjective, per G Cravens, “Googleable”. Yeah. I’m sure nobody’s ever used that word before today.)
So here’s the thing- That’s all ya get. The rest of the guessin’ can go on in the comment section this time. I’ll let the Mystery Reader who sent the photo sneak in with the answer when he or she is darn good and ready. He or she can even post misdirections and all. I’m not gonna interfere with ground rules this first time. The only one is that if someone guesses correctly- the Photographalator must then step in and say “You did it. That’s correct!” or things to that effect.
Happy Googling.
Okay, so who knows where TTC is?
Mystery to me.
Looks official, as opposed to commercial.
Older logo design. They don’t do ’em like that any more, do they?
Got a map to work with. I can’t make a lot from it, can you?
Hmm.
Not sure where to go with this one. Pun intended.
You got any guesses?
If you do, make your guess.
I’m about to throw you the answer.
Don’t scroll down until you’ve made some kind of guess.
‘T’. Where’s T? What’s TTC?
Got it?
Okay, here we go:
Okay! There you go! You have it now, right?
It WAS pretty obvious. Now that you see the whole photo, you’re probably slapping your forehead and thinking, “Oh, man. How did I miss that?”
Toronto.
Admittedly, there’s less to work with this time, Mr. Holmes. In fact, even with access to the answer, I can’t see how anyone could arrive at it from this. Let’s just examine the visual cues…
Hmm. A two inch sticker is fairly large in relation to the ‘O’ or ‘0’ that it’s stuck inside.
That means that the letter (or number) is in a smallish sign, or on a word that’s very long and needed smaller letters to fit. Or maybe in a Sub-head on a sign?
The typeface is an austere serif face, so it’s not some roadside happy-slappy burger place. Someplace that takes itself (or its signage) seriously.
Hmmm. The background is a stone relief. Expensive.
Not the gray rock of the East, more the sun-burnt dun of the West, I guess.
The paint on the lettering is cracked. Doesn’t look like wear. Or rain damage. Looks like sun blistering to me, but I could be wrong.
Sooo, what does that tell us?
Some signage, out West maybe, that someone spent some money on. It’s a long sign, or has a sub-head with smallish lettering.
Any ideas? Could be a ‘ZOO’ that has ‘O’s in it. Could be a ‘RESORT’. It’s not Burger King. Wrong typeface, substrate and colors.
What COULD it be?
Tantalizing in it’s lack of clues, really.
Anyone got a good guess?
Don’t scroll down until you’ve taken a moment to consider carefully.
Throw SOMETHING out there. Don’t be lazy and say, “There’s no way to think it out, I’ma just scroll down.”
You’ll probably scroll down, see the whole sign and either say, “Oh, why didn’t I guess? Just a guess!?” or you’ll say, out loud, “Yeah, that’s what I would have guessed, if I’d guessed.”
Cop out.
Anyhow, I suppose you have SOMETHING in mind now? “Doctor’s Office”? “Monument to the fallen heroes”?
Okay.
Here goes:
There you go. How was your guess?
Okay. So here you go. Where is this Hubris sticker? What kind of visual cues can you pick out of this little photo (you can click on the little photo to see it larger if that helps) to identify this location? Hmmmmm. Let’s see. Is that concrete or metal or… well it’s got plants around it. And dirt. And let’s see… those stickers are roughly two inches across, so the scale of the thing…
Hmmm.
Have you worked it out yet?
You’ve narrowed it down to a possible country or at least a state or district, right?
No spoilers. Work your brain a little before you finish scrolling down.
Got it now?
Okay, here you go:
‘Texas’ is a perfectly acceptable answer. If you know the name of this building, you tell me. The guy that sent me this photo didn’t specify. Half points if you said “China”. That’s one big star, folks.
Let me know if you would like a sticker or two to hide in plain sight. You’ll have to trust me with your address, which I won’t sell to anyone, and you’ll have to send me photos of the place you put the sticker (they go well on bikes, skateboards and helmets too, so you might get double duty out of them- decorate your gear and a neat photo op out somewhere) And you need to understand that if the authorities contact the site asking me to come to, say, Juno Alaska to scrape a sticker off a public restroom urinal, I will toss your name and address to them faster than a prison snitch with a hot girlfriend and a convertible waiting for him at the razorwire frontier. Not that Juno Alaska isn’t exactly where I’d like to visit, I’m just not keen on police officers greeting me at the airport with a paint scraper and smiles under their cool police mustaches.
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