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Post by ET_Explorer on May 17, 2015 16:19:22 GMT
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Post by ndrqu on May 17, 2015 16:59:26 GMT
Uhm... this is probably the hardest puzzle I have seen in this forum. There is just... nothing to work on, or maybe I haven't seen that something that could lead me here. So you are wondering how I got to the solution... eh... I can't tell you. ![](http://s5.postimg.cc/c1212ukmf/solution.jpg)
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Post by Walter_V_R on May 17, 2015 17:01:08 GMT
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Post by krenek on May 17, 2015 19:20:55 GMT
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Post by johnluke on May 19, 2015 11:11:37 GMT
The Place Is In State Of This Country ![](http://nyc.locationscout.us/wp-content/uploads/Rome-flag.jpg) That's a lot of streets. I'm sorry, but I cannot think the way you guys do. I am just an ordinary person. ![:|](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/plain.png)
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Post by ET_Explorer on May 19, 2015 11:49:55 GMT
Me Too ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by ndrqu on May 19, 2015 11:53:34 GMT
The Place Is In State Of This Country ![](http://nyc.locationscout.us/wp-content/uploads/Rome-flag.jpg) Hey that's not a country ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) you edited the flag but you forgot to edit the text
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Post by R821989 on May 19, 2015 12:41:48 GMT
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Post by ET_Explorer on May 21, 2015 16:26:21 GMT
Via Condotti (officially Via dei Condotti) is a busy and fashionable street of Rome, Italy. In Roman times it was one of the streets that crossed the ancient Via Flaminia and enabled people who transversed the Tiber to reach the Pincio hill. It begins at the foot of the Spanish steps and is named after conduits or channels which carried water to the Baths of Agrippa. Today, it is the street which contains the greatest number of Rome-based Italian fashion retailers Via Condotti is a center of fashion shopping in Rome. wikipedia![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Via_Borgogona_in_Rome.jpg/640px-Via_Borgogona_in_Rome.jpg)
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Post by johnluke on May 21, 2015 16:49:39 GMT
Via Condotti (officially Via dei Condotti) is a busy and fashionable street of Rome, Italy. In Roman times it was one of the streets that crossed the ancient Via Flaminia and enabled people who transversed the Tiber to reach the Pincio hill. It begins at the foot of the Spanish steps and is named after conduits or channels which carried water to the Baths of Agrippa. Today, it is the street which contains the greatest number of Rome-based Italian fashion retailers Via Condotti is a center of fashion shopping in Rome. wikipediaFinally! At last maybe we're going to find out... ...HOW WE WERE SUPPOSED TO FIND THIS!!!
I mean, did we miss that the street had the extremely rare feature of HAVING SHOPS?
Or were there three pixels 5 km in the distance that screamed the answer if only we had known how to look?
Tell us! What was it? We want to know!!!! (oh, and those who found it, if you could be so kind as to share how you did, especially without a clue, we'll be very grateful and happy. )
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Post by krenek on May 21, 2015 17:20:46 GMT
well, thanks to ndrqu's "this is probably the hardest puzzle I have seen in this forum", i searched only in rome... i googled "commercial street rome" and this one is one of the most referenced ones, isn't it?... ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by johnluke on May 21, 2015 17:35:52 GMT
well, thanks to ndrqu's "this is probably the hardest puzzle I have seen in this forum", i searched only in rome... With that logic, The Tunnel # 2, first found by Walter, should be in Antwerp...
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Post by ndrqu on May 21, 2015 18:09:33 GMT
Ahahah yea I probably gave a big tell, but whatever. I have seen in real life that very road many times, so I knew exactly where it was ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) sometimes I'm lucky!
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Post by krenek on May 21, 2015 18:34:10 GMT
With that logic, The Tunnel # 2, first found by Walter, should be in Antwerp... absolutely no link between what i wrote and what you wrote...?!?!?!?
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Post by hhgygy on May 21, 2015 20:05:41 GMT
As far as I am concerned, at first glance I thought it was one of the streets in my hometown Budapest. They look exactly the same from Paris to Rome to Vienna to Budapest etc. I was just too lazy and I gave up after Paris ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) (And there is no streetview in Vienna, what a shame) But after the hint it was again too easy.
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Post by ndrqu on May 21, 2015 20:33:16 GMT
As far as I am concerned, at first glance I thought it was one of the streets in my hometown Budapest. They look exactly the same from Paris to Rome to Vienna to Budapest etc. I was just too lazy and I gave up after Paris ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) (And there is no streetview in Vienna, what a shame) But after the hint it was again too easy. There is a police car in the picture that is only in Rome. It's called Polizia Roma Capitale, this one: ![](http://www.autocentroindivisa.it/albums/userpics/10001/normal_Fiat_Grande_Punto_Polizia_Roma_Capitale_ED_633_ZL_1.JPG) It's familiar to me so I suddenly recognized it. I understand it was hard for the others
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Post by johnluke on May 22, 2015 15:43:13 GMT
With that logic, The Tunnel # 2, first found by Walter, should be in Antwerp... absolutely no link between what i wrote and what you wrote...?!?!?!? The link is pretty obvious to me. But I can explain with another example: take the "Let's pray" puzzle. ndrqu says he has a poster of the place and he knows it well. He has recently posted puzzles about ski areas in the Alps ("let's go ski 1 and 2"). With your logic of "he seems to know this place so the place must be where he lives or a place he knows well", I could have thought the "Let's pray" place was in the Alps. In fact, that's what I first thought and googled for. Of course, it turned out it was in Antarctica. I should have not applied this logic, although it worked in the case of this "Street" puzzle. My problem in not my methods or logic, it is finding out when it is the right one to apply. Luck, I guess. ![O_o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/browraise.png)
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Post by johnluke on May 22, 2015 15:48:09 GMT
As far as I am concerned, at first glance I thought it was one of the streets in my hometown Budapest. They look exactly the same from Paris to Rome to Vienna to Budapest etc. I was just too lazy and I gave up after Paris ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) (And there is no streetview in Vienna, what a shame) But after the hint it was again too easy. Basically, "find a european street that has shops". Mmmmhhhh, yeah, sure, I can only think of one. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by ndrqu on May 22, 2015 16:12:25 GMT
absolutely no link between what i wrote and what you wrote...?!?!?!? The link is pretty obvious to me. But I can explain with another example: take the "Let's pray" puzzle. ndrqu says he has a poster of the place and he knows it well. He has recently posted puzzles about ski areas in the Alps ("let's go ski 1 and 2"). With your logic of "he seems to know this place so the place must be where he lives or a place he knows well", I could have thought the "Let's pray" place was in the Alps. In fact, that's what I first thought and googled for. Of course, it turned out it was in Antarctica. I should have not applied this logic, although it worked in the case of this "Street" puzzle. My problem in not my methods or logic, it is finding out when it is the right one to apply. Luck, I guess. ![O_o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/browraise.png) Luck, you are partially right. But it's not really luck if I know Antarctica... I am a geography passionate since I was a kid, so it's quite expected that I know many places in the world, and I think many others of this forum can say the same, after all we are on a Google Earth forum...
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Post by johnluke on May 22, 2015 16:28:44 GMT
The link is pretty obvious to me. But I can explain with another example: take the "Let's pray" puzzle. ndrqu says he has a poster of the place and he knows it well. He has recently posted puzzles about ski areas in the Alps ("let's go ski 1 and 2"). With your logic of "he seems to know this place so the place must be where he lives or a place he knows well", I could have thought the "Let's pray" place was in the Alps. In fact, that's what I first thought and googled for. Of course, it turned out it was in Antarctica. I should have not applied this logic, although it worked in the case of this "Street" puzzle. My problem in not my methods or logic, it is finding out when it is the right one to apply. Luck, I guess. ![O_o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/browraise.png) Luck, you are partially right. But it's not really luck if I know Antarctica... I am a geography passionate since I was a kid, so it's quite expected that I know many places in the world, and I think many others of this forum can say the same, after all we are on a Google Earth forum... Exactly my point. Thank you for agreeing with me. I shouldn't have thought this street was in Rome just because you found it easily, since you're a geography enthusiast and know about many places, just like I shouldn't have thought the "Let's pray" place was in the Alps.
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