Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Although Roman, THC’s chief puzzlewright, would be interested to know how long it takes you to solve this solo foxer, he’d rather you didn’t put spoilers or solutions in the comments.
Today, I’m on an island that’s roughly the same size as Ibiza. If you split the single word name of this island into two equal parts, you’d have two words found in an English dictionary. Roughly 100 metres from a fountain, and 150 metres from a ruddy place of worship, I’m in a town named after a bird. The town is in a country where conscientious objection is a legal right, the age of consent is 15, and the reigning monarch has four children. According to one index, I’m in the least ******t country in the world.
You are probably in the right place if you can see…
- Bikes
- The sea
- A pear tree
- A bird table
- A reclining woman
- A silver Mercedes
- Blackberry pickers
- The word ‘GAWRON’
- No road markings
- A horse chestnut tree
- A road sign featuring a horse
(Last week I was here)
A pear tree ahoy! Twenty minutes and no mis-steps although it all felt a bit precarious this week. Now I’m off to find out what the index was.
For DeepSeek watchers, it gets within 16km this week and with a hint that it was wrong gets the correct location. I find this totally amazing. DeepSeek does use the index in its reasoning so at least I know what that it now.
Impressive! I had given up after getting very underwhelming result the first time. I tried again after reading your comment, this time adding “All the clues have to be satisfied, so if you have one solution candidate that doesn’t fit the clues, dismiss it” in the prompt and it got the correct town on the first try! It even got the index right!
Is that using the R1 model? I just tried on another account using just the body test and it got the correct town first time although failed hopelessly on the index.
Found in about 20 minutes this week, lovely pick. However I’m pretty sure my IP address is now on a list after looking at so many age of consent Wikipedia pages ^^’
Blackberry pickers, ahoy! I hope they found some ripe ones.