Google Earth Cryptic Puzzle

by **La Fiama** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:58 pm

whitevanman wrote:A little clue, Adrian may be able to help you source part of the answer.

you must be joking :lol:

by **whitevanman** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:28 pm

by **Caz** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:35 pm

I've got it! Have pm'd my answer.

by **whitevanman** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:40 pm

Yep you are right Caz, although i think a couple of PM's overlapped

by **Caz** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:50 pm

That was a good one! Don't give out the answer yet. Let others have a chance to solve it. :lol:

by **La Fiama** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:19 pm

Caz wrote::lol: That was a good one! Don't give out the answer yet. Let others have a chance to solve it.

I am going to PM my answer

by **Caz** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:00 am

Oh that's good Adrian!

I hope you get it right then you can do the next one as I have a really busy week (term starts on Monday for me) and then I'm going on holiday for a week to recover! :lol:

by **whitevanman** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:10 am

Sorry, Adrian, wrong continent.
That was Caz's first thought after the clue.
There's part of the riddle that can take you straight to the place without solving all of it. BUT which part? :lol:

by **La Fiama** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:21 pm

I think I know the country but not the place yet

by **whitevanman** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:27 pm

Just guessing, Adrian, but are you sure, do you think it might be a country further to the sun rise than your's?

by **whitevanman** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:44 am

I'll put the answer on later tonight, but one last clue

If you've found the source of local knowledge you hav'nt got to scan far on google earth to find the place, the riddle tells you in which direction Although you can see the place you may not see the LINES

by **La Fiama** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:33 pm

So its somewhere in the country of Chad were General Gordon gets sozzled :lol:

by **whitevanman** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:58 pm

I was going to leave it till later, but i'm going to watch last 2 episodes of LOST, so here it is

In this faraway dark place lies the source of our local knowledge
Africa is known as "the dark continent" and in there is a country called CHAD.

from there the sun rises
the sun rises in the east, so east of Chad

on two new lines, one white and one blue
new is crossword teminology for an anagram of (usually) the next word, so anagram of LINES is NILES so you now have "The White Nile" and "The Blue Nile"

these merge into a different line
again, "different" means an anagram of the next word, LINE, so again you have NILE. The White and Blue Niles merge into a single river just called "The Nile"

it is at this point the General drinks his gin
Where the two niles merge is a city were General Gordon (Gordons Gin) lost his life defending against the Muslem people,

That city is KHARTOUM

by **La Fiama** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:39 pm

I thought it was that :lol:

by **Caz** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:51 pm

Like I said, it was a good one! Would someone else please take over the next one as I have my hols soon. Ta!!

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