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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Guest on Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:32 pm

What? wrote:think what cavendish worked with and put it into google along with shell.

It's not density of earth right?
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Cov on Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:33 pm

Thanks a lot. Was stupidly looking at places associated with Cavendish.

Should have been more Shell-oriented
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby dmhass on Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:34 pm

The code is in
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Los angeles usa
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Kanarama on Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:47 pm

Someone's already given you guys the right answer...

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The answer is by the LA hydrogen fuelling station. Find it and move the map about a little.


If you want the exact location:
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Find the LAX airport, that's where the fuelling station is near. It's to the north next to Westwood.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Guest on Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:05 pm

Ok, I feel that I'm really close, but I still can't find the place for the tag unless Shell is doing something 'funny' again. Can someone nudge me in the correct direction please?
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby What? on Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:29 pm

Firstly, if you all register your posts will come through straight away instead of needing moderation. It'll take a few minutes of your time if you have a St Andrews University email account. if not email admin and ask for a guest account. This is a St Andrews University/town forum after all.

Anyway you're looking for a Shell retail outlet somewhere in the USA.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby rcs on Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:31 pm

seems a very easy clue this week - put shell and H on google and you will be very close

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we are looking for Shell's Hydrogen Station in the US ;)
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby CAndy on Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:34 pm

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The location is 34° 2'19.86"N, 118°27'19.77"W
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Fawksie on Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:47 pm

What? wrote:Firstly, if you all register your posts will come through straight away instead of needing moderation. It'll take a few minutes of your time if you have a St Andrews University email account. if not email admin and ask for a guest account.

Or PM me.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Guest on Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:05 pm

rcs wrote:seems a very easy clue this week

... Not for me! I was off looking at stuff related to 'The Cambridge Five' and everything... This thing is gobbling-up all of my Thursday evenings.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Guest on Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:21 pm

What had the first clue to do with it after all ??

Libra?? It doesn't ring a bell about anything!
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby tcs05 on Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:54 pm

Funny how rather than advertise shell, they seem to be doing a fine job of advertising St Andrews Uni! Odd how things have unsuspected side effects. What other unis are represented here....just out of interest. I am Postgrad at imperial....
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby What? on Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:01 am

tcs05 wrote:Funny how rather than advertise shell, they seem to be doing a fine job of advertising St Andrews Uni! Odd how things have unsuspected side effects. What other unis are represented here....just out of interest. I am Postgrad at imperial....


Are you saying The Sinner is to do with Shell?

Actually we've been around for years, long before Geopursuit, as an alternative outlet for information at St Andrews. It just so happens we're the most active forum for Geopursuit so lots of folk find their way to this particular thread.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby zipporah on Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:18 am

That snake drill game - weren't you supposed to get points for doing level one? Then points for level five or something then more points for finishing altogether? I didn't finish it but I'm sure I should have an extra couple of hundred points.

Also - if I log in then look at, say, the leaderboard, I can't get back to the screen to view the clue and type in the code without logging out then in again. If you hit the profile tab it just takes you to a screen to update your details. Am I missing something?

ETA: Nevermind, I just discovered the title's a link.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Freaker on Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:44 am

it's a very badly programmed page - not so easy to navigate, and overall quite confusing.

For the game, I think you got 100 points somewhere between 5 and 7, then another 100 somewhere around 15, and 500 more when you finished the whole game somewhere in the 20s.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Fawksie on Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:25 am

What? wrote:
tcs05 wrote:Funny how rather than advertise shell, they seem to be doing a fine job of advertising St Andrews Uni! Odd how things have unsuspected side effects. What other unis are represented here....just out of interest. I am Postgrad at imperial....


Are you saying The Sinner is to do with Shell?

I think they're saying that Geopursuit is inadvertently advertising St Andrews, when it's supposed to be advertising Shell.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Guest on Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:52 pm

zipporah wrote:I didn't finish it but I'm sure I should have an extra couple of hundred points.

I did finish it, but I still didn't get any extra points added to my total (despite being told during the game that an extra 100, 100, and 500 had been added).
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby bz85 on Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:42 am

Am I the only one who thinks there must be some way of finding the codes without having to solve the rather cryptic clues? I say this because of the speed with which people find them and the fact that the same names keep showing up in the top 10.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Freaker on Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:46 pm

There may well be. Somebody who is a bit more able with computers than me may find more detailed clues in the actual files etc. But it's not easy, possibly very hard, and certainly against the spirit of the game ;) !

bz85 wrote:Am I the only one who thinks there must be some way of finding the codes without having to solve the rather cryptic clues? I say this because of the speed with which people find them and the fact that the same names keep showing up in the top 10.
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Re: Geopursuit

Postby Andym22 on Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:04 pm

I must admit when they posted their answers and suddenly they are top ten without 10 minutes going past a was tremendously hacked off!

Then my girlfriend came in and took 20 minutes to find the answer, of which i failed to do for about an hour before closing my laptop is disgust...

Im not sure if there is anything to conspire over or whether they are just lucky with their searches.

I am sure there must be a way of finding the coordinates of any geotags if you have some programming knowledge as it would surely have to be broken down in the code of the shell file somehow...

Dear Computer scientists would you like to help get me a Wii? ;)

Happy Searching
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