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Post by brewhaha on May 8, 2021 9:28:17 GMT -5
Congratulations to Team Mountweasels: Desiree Hood, Karen Cross, Bob Harmon, Chris Wilson and Ryan Collins!!! Thanks again to Jenny and Beth for letting me participate in this charity event. I hope everyone had a good time with this one. (Spoiler - below is the solve) Answer key for “Who is the creator?” Answer: Ralph Adams Cram Links ChapelChapel EntranceDownspoutWord clue: Begin at the tomes that reside in the floors above and below (Begin at Firestone library at Princeton University) Wander across the street, scripture in tow (across the street is the Princeton chapel)
Pass the lion that reads, when it could fly (The entrance has a lion with wings reading a book & other sculptures from the image clue)
Spires, guarding a triangle, yearn to reach the sky (the chapel has short spires)
Wayfare on, the enemy of the snake will never fall (Once you found this you have to travel to the back of the church and a famous enemy of the snake is Jormungander vs Thor)
His judging eyes looks down on us all (You will find an odd decoration of a bull dog high up /looking down) The 18th to wear the crown, (a bulldog named Thor won the 18th Best of Show nation championship)
Does he belong in this town? (The Princeton mascot is the tiger and their rival Yale’s mascot is a bulldog… so many wonder why the bulldog was placed here)
Image Clue Woman with wings and cross represent angel in the entrance Woman brows & eyelashes are black and eye shadow orange = Princeton colors black and orange
Book represents Firestone library Lion represents figure in entrance Cow represents figure in entrance Cow tattoo represents the Church windows
Crown represents both Jesus and the Thor championship Umbrella represents storm drain Rabbit in blue coat represents Peter Rabbit which collection is in the Firestone library Costen Children’s Library Cane is the prize
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Post by thedawailey on May 8, 2021 9:37:21 GMT -5
Wow - thanks for the solution. I was way off on most, but I did get the St. Mark's lion and thought the cow tattoo looked like a window. I thought maybe a Frank Lloyd window, but was never able to match it.
Congrats to the winners - great job!
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Post by mommasquatch on May 8, 2021 9:49:37 GMT -5
Congratulations... Wow - that was insane... I thought the tattoo on the cow was going to be the design on a wrought iron fence... WTG! I guess I should start looking at the other puzzled or maybe I just need to give up... lol.
Congrats again...
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Post by desiree on May 8, 2021 10:00:42 GMT -5
Well as one of the solvers I can safely say, we had several parts of this figured out, but some of this now makes way more sense! We definitely didn't have it all figured out!
We honestly got there through a crazy Google search that led me to Princeton. When I found the window display I about fell off my chair! My gut just knew that was the Bull's face. My group immediately started scouring the area and eventually, after several attempts, got the solve. This was NOT an easy find!
Thanks again!! This was so much fun!
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Post by skdaizy on May 8, 2021 11:15:28 GMT -5
WOW, Congrats!!
I was way off base. I was looking in Manhattan bc bowling green park was the site of a King George III statue that was famously torn down during the Revolutionary war, which coincidentally is close to the wall street bull. ST Marks (winged lion) is also nearby - I had the enemy of the snake as St. Patrick, haha!
Great Puzzle.
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Post by stercox on May 8, 2021 12:17:48 GMT -5
Congratulations!!!!
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Post by desiree on May 8, 2021 12:21:42 GMT -5
WOW, Congrats!! I was way off base. I was looking in Manhattan bc bowling green park was the site of a King George III statue that was famously torn down during the Revolutionary war, which coincidentally is close to the wall street bull. ST Marks (winged lion) is also nearby - I had the enemy of the snake as St. Patrick, haha! Great Puzzle. No joke, I submitted the NYC Bull statue early on because it has a crazy history that fit so much...lol. So I understand being stuck in that city!
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Post by susb8383 on May 8, 2021 12:24:31 GMT -5
Princeton was one of the places I looked but not for any reason mentioned here. I took the german Bible to represent the Gutenberg Bible. On the left page I could identify the text at the top as being from Mark and the text at the bottom as being from Luke (or vice versa, can't remember exactly now) which I took to represent an incomplete copy. There are six incomplete copies of the Gutenberg Bible in the U.S., one of which is at Princeton. Congrats!
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Post by desiree on May 8, 2021 14:00:09 GMT -5
Princeton was one of the places I looked but not for any reason mentioned here. I took the german Bible to represent the Gutenberg Bible. On the left page I could identify the text at the top as being from Mark and the text at the bottom as being from Luke (or vice versa, can't remember exactly now) which I took to represent an incomplete copy. There are six incomplete copies of the Gutenberg Bible in the U.S., one of which is at Princeton. Congrats! Princeton also is one of a handful in the US to have a Martin Luther bible...which they have at the Firestone Library. I also was stuck on Guttenberg till a teammate found it to be a Martin Luther. Then once I found the windows, we wouldn't let up till we found it. Haha. I figure Mr. Brewer knew we were closing in as we guessed about everything around the church before realizing our error. Sounds like you went down all the same rabbit holes as us! I still am grinning and so excited...lol!
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Post by susb8383 on May 8, 2021 16:18:18 GMT -5
At one point I switched to the Luther bible but I thought maybe it was implying that the spires were from a Lutheran church.
Congrats, that's some nice sleuthing.
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Post by susb8383 on May 8, 2021 16:23:59 GMT -5
Wonder why he added a feather to the ear of the cow? It's not in the original picture. I thought it was implying White Bull which was a famous Native American (related to Sitting Bull).
Also went on a tangent of focusing on Black Swan since the woman had ballet shoes and black feathers. Natalie Portman starred in it and went to Harvard, which also has a Gutenberg Bible and is near Church St (cross the street with Scripture in hand). It's also near a flagpole with an eagle on top (the enemy of the snake will never fall).
Of course I started with NYC like most people but not just because of the lions at the library and St. Patrick's Cathedral. The NYC library and the University of Chicago are the only two libraries I could find that have a robotic system--the books are stored below ground and and brought to the upper rooms when someone wants them. So there are the tomes stored above and below.
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Post by susb8383 on May 8, 2021 16:26:18 GMT -5
Did the umbrella tie pointing at 433 mean anything? Also the handle pointing at the German word for protector (best I could find a translation for)?
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Post by susb8383 on May 8, 2021 16:27:23 GMT -5
I also thought the Fleur-de-lis on the crown implied something french.
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Post by desiree on May 8, 2021 19:21:35 GMT -5
I also thought the Fleur-de-lis on the crown implied something french. Honestly, we should be happy we are not graded on our solve and how we got to the end. Lol. I had the bible and crown as Martin Luther King at one point, scoured New Orleans for the fleur de lis, (Saints logo) and finally resorted to scouring for the bulls markings. We had so many wild connections! Our umbrella was for the fountain outside...wrong. We had several others also off slightly. So don't beat yourself up. No, the 433 or the "preserve/protector" word in the bible came into play. At least not for us. The feather I think meant a battlefield. At least to us, and Princeton was a huge battlefield at one time. Native Americans were awarded a feather for a war win. That's another reason I felt Princeton was right once I found the windows. Then my group and I spent a week submitting anything we could find near the church. We used brute force at the end...haha.
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Post by susb8383 on May 8, 2021 21:01:39 GMT -5
I sent him a bunch of wild guesses too, basically the sculptor of any thing related to Grant. He must have been laughing his head off at some of the emails.
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