Lying [ANSWER]

In the news.



For context I tried to find a better satellite image from the historicals but none of them are too sharp.



SV or GM/GE please

Even though I was helped a LOT, I spent so much time and effort on this that I feel I deserve to post my answer. I still don't know what the lying is and what it is about, but at this point I'm so exhausted I don't care anymore. 🤪

Last hard one of the day for me. Whew ! 🙃

Oct 29, 2022 15:43:01 GMT johnluke said:

 I still don't know what the lying is and what it is about, 

It's called a lying tree because it is lying. Not in the sense not telling the truth, LoL

I really need to up my game

CLUE 1

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{Spoiler}After Johnluke's comment, I tried something on google
If you search for lying tree in Hungarian (=fekvő fa), you most probably won't find it.
BUT
If you search for lying <right kind of tree> (in Hungarian) then it is an instant find. So you only need to guess what kind of tree it is. 

Well, I was way off base with this one.  I thought "Lying" in the "News" had to be Russian propaganda.  I searched every little reservoir and river in Ukraine.  I would never have thought what you said in your Clue.

Oct 29, 2022 16:07:29 GMT hhgygy said:

Oct 29, 2022 15:43:01 GMT johnluke said:

 I still don't know what the lying is and what it is about, 

It's called a lying tree because it is lying. Not in the sense not telling the truth, LoL

You lol, and you can, because you knew what the puzzle was about. But those who didn't, well, they have to guess. And when you use the word "lying" and "in the news" in the same puzzle, the first thing you think of is people in the news who have been caught lying. There are TONS of such news because apparently people lie a lot. Who'd have thought ? There are absolutely NO news about lying trees, at least in english (or french) when searching news about lying. I didn't search the news for trees, because I didn't think this was about trees. I saw your comments yesterday evening but I saw there is a tree trunk lying in the picture only this morning! It's not that obvious that it is a tree trunk. The rest of the tree is standing too. If I'd seen it maybe I'd made the connexion. Maybe. I did search for lake in the news, hoping this was a lake (not even sure, in spite of the map you added). There are some news about dried up lakes in your country. And there are tons of lakes there! Now I know it... And btw, you never mentioned a country to begin with (fair enough), so for all I knew, this could be in Brazil, Japan, Finland or South Africa. I wasn't going to try all the languages one by one, no way. So all in all, a lot of unkowns, to say the least, and "not much to go on"...
Oh, and when I now search lying trees (provided I know this is about trees) I get results showing people lying under trees, sometimes on them, in the branches.

As always, when you already know the solution, it seems much easier. 😊

So I guess what I'm saying is, the only way to find this with no clue was brute forcing it: go on a hunch it was your country, and start looking for lakes that spread in a north south direction. And hope to be lucky, as that's a needle in a haystack search. I wasn't !

OK, move on to next puzzle now. Fingers crossed. 😁

Oct 29, 2022 16:12:01 GMT hhgygy said:

CLUE 1

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}After Johnluke's comment, I tried something on google
If you search for lying tree in Hungarian (=fekvő fa), you most probably won't find it.
BUT
If you search for lying <right kind of tree> (in Hungarian) then it is an instant find. So you only need to guess what kind of tree it is. 

Thanks for the clue. 😊

Oct 30, 2022 7:44:14 GMT johnluke said:

Oct 29, 2022 16:07:29 GMT hhgygy said:

It's called a lying tree because it is lying. Not in the sense not telling the truth, LoL

You lol, and you can, because you knew what the puzzle was about. But those who didn't, well, they have to guess. And when you use the word "lying" and "in the news" in the same puzzle, the first thing you think of is people in the news who have been caught lying. There are TONS of such news because apparently people lie a lot. Who'd have thought ? There are absolutely NO news about lying trees, at least in english (or french) when searching news about lying. I didn't search the news for trees, because I didn't think this was about trees. I saw your comments yesterday evening but I saw there is a tree trunk lying in the picture only this morning! It's not that obvious that it is a tree trunk. The rest of the tree is standing too. If I'd seen it maybe I'd made the connexion. Maybe. I did search for lake in the news, hoping this was a lake (not even sure, in spite of the map you added). There are some news about dried up lakes in your country. And there are tons of lakes there! Now I know it... And btw, you never mentioned a country to begin with (fair enough), so for all I knew, this could be in Brazil, Japan, Finland or South Africa. I wasn't going to try all the languages one by one, no way. So all in all, a lot of unkowns, to say the least, and "not much to go on"...
Oh, and when I now search lying trees (provided I know this is about trees) I get results showing people lying under trees, sometimes on them, in the branches.

As always, when you already know the solution, it seems much easier. 😊

So I guess what I'm saying is, the only way to find this with no clue was brute forcing it: go on a hunch it was your country, and start looking for lakes that spread in a north south direction. And hope to be lucky, as that's a needle in a haystack search. I wasn't !

OK, move on to next puzzle now. Fingers crossed. 😁

That's quite a long rant. I feel your frustration, rest assured. 😊

Oct 30, 2022 8:00:47 GMT hhgygy said:

Oct 30, 2022 7:44:14 GMT johnluke said:

You lol, and you can, because you knew what the puzzle was about. But those who didn't, well, they have to guess. And when you use the word "lying" and "in the news" in the same puzzle, the first thing you think of is people in the news who have been caught lying. There are TONS of such news because apparently people lie a lot. Who'd have thought ? There are absolutely NO news about lying trees, at least in english (or french) when searching news about lying. I didn't search the news for trees, because I didn't think this was about trees. I saw your comments yesterday evening but I saw there is a tree trunk lying in the picture only this morning! It's not that obvious that it is a tree trunk. The rest of the tree is standing too. If I'd seen it maybe I'd made the connexion. Maybe. I did search for lake in the news, hoping this was a lake (not even sure, in spite of the map you added). There are some news about dried up lakes in your country. And there are tons of lakes there! Now I know it... And btw, you never mentioned a country to begin with (fair enough), so for all I knew, this could be in Brazil, Japan, Finland or South Africa. I wasn't going to try all the languages one by one, no way. So all in all, a lot of unkowns, to say the least, and "not much to go on"...
Oh, and when I now search lying trees (provided I know this is about trees) I get results showing people lying under trees, sometimes on them, in the branches.

As always, when you already know the solution, it seems much easier. 😊

So I guess what I'm saying is, the only way to find this with no clue was brute forcing it: go on a hunch it was your country, and start looking for lakes that spread in a north south direction. And hope to be lucky, as that's a needle in a haystack search. I wasn't !

OK, move on to next puzzle now. Fingers crossed. 😁

That's quite a long rant. I feel your frustration, rest assured. 😊

That "rant" is still shorter that the time I spent on looking for a Hungarian lake that has the extraordinarily interesting feature of having trees around it. 😄

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That "rant" is still shorter that the time I spent on looking for a Hungarian lake that has the extraordinarily interesting feature of having trees around it. 😄[/quote]

The next clue will reveal why it is in the news, so not totally uninteresting.

The next clue will reveal why it is in the news, so not totally uninteresting.

I already know why it's in the news thanks to your first clue. 😊 250, eh ? I feel I spent a longer time on this. 😭

If anyone else still wants to find it, they will find it with this.

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{CLUE2}

Tree of the Year 2022 in which country?

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{ANSWER}

Estimated to be between 200 and 250 years old, this lying platanus (plane) tree has won the Tree of the Year award in Hungary in 2022.



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