This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
To fully defox the following geofoxer, identify all twelve locations plus the theme that links them.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s cluster foxer:
words of nahuatl origin (defoxed by ylla)
a1. ocelot (Zwack23)
b1. chili (Aergistal)
a2. tomato (Zwack23)
a3. coyote (a_monk)
b3. chocolate (Zwack23)
guillotines (defoxed by Phlebas)
c1. guillotine room in war remnants museum, ho chi minh (Phlebas)
d1. guillotine game (Nutfield)
e1. sophie scholl (AbyssUK)
d2. halifax gibbet guillotine (Nutfield)
d3. christopher lee (AbyssUK, honanhal)
king vs. riggs ‘battle of the sexes’ tennis match, 1973 (defoxed by Colonel_K)
b2. piglet (Electric Dragon, Phlebas)
c2. riggs (Froggster, AbyssUK)
c3. astrodome (a_monk)
b4. 6:4,6:3,6:3 (Aergistal)
c4. king (Whistler)
valleys (defoxed by Colonel_K and Electric Dragon)
e2. lily of the valley (Colonel_K)
e3. valley forge (honanhal, AbyssUK)
d4. happy valley (Froggster)
e4. valley of fear (Mrs Nutfield)
e5. valley of tears (Nutfield, Phlebas)
colorado river dams (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a4. morelos (Aergistal)
a5. granby (Zwack23)
b5. imperial (Electric Dragon)
c5. hoover (Electric Dragon)
d5. davis (Aergistal)
F: Horace Rackham Bear Fountain, Detroit Zoo, Royal Oak, Michigan.
H: Loch Sloy Hydroelectric
This pumps water from Loch Lomond, Captain Haddock’s favourite scotch.
K: Cambridge, Market Square
With the ‘Snowy’ Farr sculpture in view
https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/snowy-farr-sculpture
Tintin’s dog is of course called Snowy.
Walter ‘Snowy’ Farr Statue visible to the left of the pink line.
B: Alcazar of Segovia
Rackham and Alcazar are both Tintin characters.
D looks like St Cuthbert’s Cave (before Nutfield gets everything!)
Cuthbert Calculus!
The building in G looks to be a Blue Lotus, which would confirm the Tintin link.
I – Brussels Airport duty free, close to here
https://goo.gl/maps/r3QLixiwuw2S7wqx7
Just behind the replica rocket from Tintin’s moon journey.
Close to this spot is a model of Tintin’s rocket from Destination Moon
https://goo.gl/maps/YSfiiQci5MjU2iAy8
J: is a mil mi 1 Hare if that helps Tintin fans, think it might be in Budapest, still checking.
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.1677455,20.1790953,3a,75y,205.26h,93.81t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipO70GgMJ3DA5NaovcyAnPCPPkZXYLJ7yek29GDX!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipO70GgMJ3DA5NaovcyAnPCPPkZXYLJ7yek29GDX%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya4.517351-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352?entry=ttu
RepTár Szolnok Aviation Museum (With help from Mrs Nutfield)
The very helicopter featured in Tintin and the Picaros!
https://strobez.ca/wp/index.php/2020/04/24/mil-mi-1m-tintin-and-the-picaros/
The vehicle at the front of A looks like one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sd.Kfz._251
…but I’m not sure where.
Museum of the Slovak National Uprising in ‘Kapitulská 23, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia’
And if we look at the APC from a different angle, we can see the number 714 – as in Flight 714!
C – Lorient submarine base, Brittany. The obscured graffito is a crab – maybe it has golden claws?
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.7271801,-3.3660483,3a,75y,305.47h,108.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxT3_WgiViiBevAN-52w12w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
L – Possibly the shadow of a T-33 or P-80 SHOOTING STAR.
T-33 at Station Gimli: https://goo.gl/maps/gqcCMvat1mefV5nz7
E – The water tower of Captain HADDOCK: https://goo.gl/maps/1AhjuZEVLULVh8Tj6