ANNOUNCEMENT ~ FINAL PUZZLE HAS BEEN SOLVED!
Oct 18, 2019 15:16:04 GMT -5
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Post by lampwithfourkeys on Oct 18, 2019 15:16:04 GMT -5
ANNOUNCEMENT -- THE FINAL PUZZLE HAS BEEN SOLVED! I received the correct solution today in my email. . Congratulations to Brian Poeppelmann and Beth Hovanec! They have been working hard on this as a team. They win the $1000 cash prize!
The Four Keys unlock this building:
SHREE GOKARNANATHA KSHETHRA KUDROLI in Mangalore India. It's on India's southwest coast, less than a mile from the Arabian Sea (It's often referred to as "Kudroli Temple".)
www.google.com/maps/place/12°52'34.0"N+74°49'53.3"E/@12.8740218,74.8308658,354a,35y,2.53h,28.33t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d12.8761139!4d74.8314694
This place is actually where a yearly LANTERN CONTEST is held every autumn during the Festival of Light (Diwali). Hundreds of people of all ages bring their homemade lanterns to this temple to see if they can win cash prizes in various categories. The cash prizes are pretty huge! The yearly contest is called "Namma Kudla Gooda Deepa". The Festival of Light always starts on New Moon, and so this year Diwali starts on October 27th, and the lantern contest is on October 28th. So this year's contest is only about a week from now!
When I read about this lantern contest last year, it inspired me to do the lanterns. I loved the idea of a contest having to do with lanterns. I really wish I could go to India myself and enter a lantern in this contest next week. Since I can't go to India, at least not right now, I could do the next best thing -- have my own lantern contest. The treasure hunt!
And I thought it would be great if someone happened to find it right around the time of the actual Gooda Deepa at this temple. Well, it's only a week away, so that is close enough!! I'm happy about that.
This is a video that someone made of one of the yearly lantern contests here. The first part of the video shows the interior of the temple, where there are table displays of intricate lanterns made to look exactly like buildings, and other lanterns shaped like everything else under the sun, like a floating boat or a helicopter or a guitar. Later in the video, you go outside and see the hundreds and hundreds of traditional hanging lanterns swaying in the breeze. They are called "kandils". You can skip to 8:25 to see these. Some of them are amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5dXBmoTmo
Here is another video. The picture quality is not as good, but the lanterns are spectacular! The hanging lanterns outside start at 3:40 in the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHakenzbX8
Last year when I saw this particular video, I was so blown away by these lanterns that it really got me to start making my own.
Again, the first part of the video shows the inside of the building, with indoor displays. Then it shows the hanging lanterns outside, starting at about 3:40 in the video, so you can skip to that. Be sure to look at the ones at the very end starting at 13:14. There is one beautiful macrame lantern at 13:24. It's pink, then the light changes it to green. Somewhere there is a lantern made of 27,000 nuts.
And catch the fishbowl lantern at 13:30 ---see the goldfish!
I will post all the solutions soon, starting with the First Key. Thank you to everyone who worked on this! I think the First Key was actually the most difficult to find of all the four keys. Next time I will make the first one a little easier to find!
The Four Keys unlock this building:
SHREE GOKARNANATHA KSHETHRA KUDROLI in Mangalore India. It's on India's southwest coast, less than a mile from the Arabian Sea (It's often referred to as "Kudroli Temple".)
www.google.com/maps/place/12°52'34.0"N+74°49'53.3"E/@12.8740218,74.8308658,354a,35y,2.53h,28.33t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d12.8761139!4d74.8314694
This place is actually where a yearly LANTERN CONTEST is held every autumn during the Festival of Light (Diwali). Hundreds of people of all ages bring their homemade lanterns to this temple to see if they can win cash prizes in various categories. The cash prizes are pretty huge! The yearly contest is called "Namma Kudla Gooda Deepa". The Festival of Light always starts on New Moon, and so this year Diwali starts on October 27th, and the lantern contest is on October 28th. So this year's contest is only about a week from now!
When I read about this lantern contest last year, it inspired me to do the lanterns. I loved the idea of a contest having to do with lanterns. I really wish I could go to India myself and enter a lantern in this contest next week. Since I can't go to India, at least not right now, I could do the next best thing -- have my own lantern contest. The treasure hunt!
And I thought it would be great if someone happened to find it right around the time of the actual Gooda Deepa at this temple. Well, it's only a week away, so that is close enough!! I'm happy about that.
This is a video that someone made of one of the yearly lantern contests here. The first part of the video shows the interior of the temple, where there are table displays of intricate lanterns made to look exactly like buildings, and other lanterns shaped like everything else under the sun, like a floating boat or a helicopter or a guitar. Later in the video, you go outside and see the hundreds and hundreds of traditional hanging lanterns swaying in the breeze. They are called "kandils". You can skip to 8:25 to see these. Some of them are amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5dXBmoTmo
Here is another video. The picture quality is not as good, but the lanterns are spectacular! The hanging lanterns outside start at 3:40 in the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHakenzbX8
Last year when I saw this particular video, I was so blown away by these lanterns that it really got me to start making my own.
Again, the first part of the video shows the inside of the building, with indoor displays. Then it shows the hanging lanterns outside, starting at about 3:40 in the video, so you can skip to that. Be sure to look at the ones at the very end starting at 13:14. There is one beautiful macrame lantern at 13:24. It's pink, then the light changes it to green. Somewhere there is a lantern made of 27,000 nuts.
And catch the fishbowl lantern at 13:30 ---see the goldfish!
I will post all the solutions soon, starting with the First Key. Thank you to everyone who worked on this! I think the First Key was actually the most difficult to find of all the four keys. Next time I will make the first one a little easier to find!
