Beware! The air quality on Tally-Ho Corner is going to be abysmal this week, and thanks to the tangle of quivering hoses on our puddle-strewn drive, there will be trip hazards galore. Keen to address one of my stranger blindspots…
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
V is for Verbose sleuthing. It’s a fairly safe bet fans of The Case of the Golden Idol and The Rise of the Golden Idol will enjoy the Confidential Killings trial. The game’s short but tangled whodunnits are set in…
Thanks to a much appreciated submission from a reader, Roman spent most of yesterday afternoon amongst squabbling sparrows, overdressed bumble bees, and peripatetic marbled whites rather than at his desk. My colleague added the odd word to the following hive…
Q is for Quick stogie card. Significantly larger and younger than all previous occupants of this slot, the thirty cards that make up ‘Soldiers of Waterloo’ were issued in 1995 and came in packets of Castella cigars. The text on…
L is for Largely forgotten rally sim. The first video game worthy of the tag ‘simulation’ wasn’t a flight sim but a 2D side-on recreation of the sport that’s currently monopolising the THC idiot box. An attraction at Brookhaven National…
F is for Flying pencils added to Scramble. Slitherine’s thoroughly 3D BoB wargame has some Schnellbombers at long last. While the new Do 17s must run the gauntlet of player-controlled Spits and Hurricanes, there’s no danger of them suffering the…
A is for Affordable angling games. It’s not too late to grab a price-slashed piscatorial plaything on Steam. Ending in approximately seven hours’ time, the emporium’s nearly-over Fishing Fest includes two of my current fishy favourites, Ultimate Fishing Simulator (£2)…