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The Great Bond Geoguesser Game

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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    Well, though not really his motive? But stop me in time, I'll keep thinking about one and post it otherwise.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    For now it seems like just the three of us, I'm happy for you to post another while we get things rolling. I'll think of one too for the future, just in case.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    *her. You got the location dead on though @j_w_pepper. I think given the non-Bond Geoguesser is simply about the location that maybe the Bond connection can be seen as a bonus, especially if we do move to ones from novels not all of us have read. But idk, whatever you guys think is best, I'm sure it can be ironed out once we get a few more rounds in.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    CharmianBond wrote: »
    *her. You got the location dead on though @j_w_pepper. I think given the non-Bond Geoguesser is simply about the location that maybe the Bond connection can be seen as a bonus, especially if we do move to ones from novels not all of us have read. But idk, whatever you guys think is best, I'm sure it can be ironed out once we get a few more rounds in.

    In my original concept, either the location OR the connection to Bond counts as a win. If the location is guessed, the one running the round can educate us all on the Bond connection, and we all learn something. But in my original concept I thought this game would be much harder than it seems like it is (which I'm pleased about!), so honestly, anything goes.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    OK. I'm using a pic that is not a Google Street View capture, so you might think of finding it via Google images or so if you want to play that way, but that's up to you. It shows a place where Bond intends to go (caused by the circumstances) but ultimately doesn't. Good luck. I'll keep searching for something more suitable for the next round that is mine.
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    PS: The photograph was marked as being in the public domain, so I won't recognize the photographer here specifically. And don't get misled by the .de domain of the upload service.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    I've got an idea... but I'll do a bit more research before coming out of the gate with something.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    You know when you see something and then all the knowledge completely goes out your head? 😂

    Are we still in America?
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    Toto...I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. :-)
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    I'll try and make an assist here, as I probably won't be in often enough to run a round, nor completely check on my vague memories, but this seems like the French or Greek warehouse bond was heading towards before being intercepted in forever and a day, the horrowitz pre-casino royale book .
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    Time to get this thread back up: Re the questions (though I think one ought not to be too specific in answering), no, this is not a French or Greek warehouse. And not in Kansas, at least. But it has a certain train station touch, doesn't it?
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    It strikes me as something from DAF (Spectreville?), but I’m not sure of specific locations yet; I’ll have a look this afternoon to see if I can dredge something g up.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    @NickTwentyTwo: Your direction is not entirely wrong. Except that Spectreville was an invention by Ian Fleming.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    My first thought was Spectreville and the only other train station I can think of is Thunderbird Halt in TMWTGG but that's made up as well and he does definitely go there.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    edited November 2022 Posts: 8,697
    CharmianBond wrote: »
    My first thought was Spectreville and the only other train station I can think of is Thunderbird Halt in TMWTGG but that's made up as well and he does definitely go there.
    So then, there would also not be a photograph of it, unless faked (this isn't). But you guys are sort of close.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    The only other one I've got so far is some place in Tarpon Springs, but it's Solitaire that suggest that whilst they're on the train not Bond. Besides I don't think it matches geographically.

    Is it definitively from Fleming's works?
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    edited November 2022 Posts: 8,697
    CharmianBond wrote: »
    The only other one I've got so far is some place in Tarpon Springs, but it's Solitaire that suggest that whilst they're on the train not Bond. Besides I don't think it matches geographically.

    Is it definitively from Fleming's works?
    Yes, it is. If I don't recollect that incorrectly, it comes on in the penultimate chapter of one of the novels.

  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    I've got it. It's Rhyolite station where the line from Spectreville heads and where Bond and Tiffany are headed before Felix picks them up.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    Perfect, @CharmianBond. Spot on. I guess it's your turn then. I guess we'll have to move away from DAF for a change.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Nice one @CharmianBond! I'm glad I was on the right track (lol) with DAF, but great job figuring out the specific spot. Looking forward to what you'll bring us!
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    Maybe we should try to find some more members possibly interested in this by keeping this on the first page of the discussion list somehow. For instance by posting even relative irrelevant remarks about our considerations. I don't mean we have to give active hints, though, except where deemed necessary.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    Thanks, I knew it was the Nevada desert the moment I saw it then I got led astray, but I finally found it about five lines (hah) after Spectreville is first described so thank you for teeing it up for me @NickTwentyTwo.

    Here's the next one. This is a place in which Bond does not go to but someone close to him does.

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  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Maybe we should try to find some more members possibly interested in this by keeping this on the first page of the discussion list somehow. For instance by posting even relative irrelevant remarks about our considerations. I don't mean we have to give active hints, though, except where deemed necessary.

    That's my plan Sergeant; I'm doing all but double-posting to keep it where interested eyes might see it. :))

    Charmian, that blue Parking sign makes me think it's Paris again, but the sign is probably more ubiquitous than I'm giving it credit for. Good post, I'll see what I can do.

    EDIT: I'm noticing a ".de" that's actually useful this time... on the bus...
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    edited November 2022 Posts: 8,697
    It's not the ".de" that makes the difference, but the fact that Google caved in to supposed German fears of their personal data being compromised by showing the place that they lived. Which is why Google has basically been giving up on providing new images on Street Maps in Germany for the last 13 years or so.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    It's the classic .de domain clue, it gets everywhere :)) and sure enough this capture was taken 14 years ago.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited November 2022 Posts: 13,936
    Just a suggestion chaps - this thread is in the 007 gaming section, meaning video games. Moving it to the trivia & games section might draw more attention. Peace!
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Thanks @QBranch, didn't realize there were two gaming threads. @DarthDimi would you be able to move the thread?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Done! 😉
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    OK, I know the place. Still, maybe someone else may wish to find it for themselves, so:
    Maximilianstrasse, Munich. The building about in the middle of the left-hand row is No. 17, the Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel where Bond and Tracy stayed before being married by the British Consul General.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    OK, I know the place. Still, maybe someone else may wish to find it for themselves, so:
    Maximilianstrasse, Munich. The building about in the middle of the left-hand row is No. 17, the Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel where Bond and Tracy stayed before being married by the British Consul General.

    That's the one, back to you Sheriff.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    OK. A Bond location is described by Fleming as being ten miles east of this place.
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