Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[JessicaH]

Community Service

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[bikesnick]

2/18/2023 – Community Service
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Share of McLean has been helping meet the emergency needs of McLean and nearby areas of Northern Virginia since 1969.
(We have donated and volunteered there.)

[AlanA]

@cvcalhoun 224404 wrote:

Okay, since this will be the first (and last!) Wordle for me, how does this work?

When you say a link to whatever puzzle you choose, are we talking about a link to Wordle like you just gave? Or, after you solve it, a link to something that shows all those green and yellow boxes like the ones I’ve been filtering out of my Facebook feed? Or a link that shows the actual word?

If you fail to solve a Wordle, does it still tell you what the answer was? And even if it does, can you use that word if you didn’t solve the Wordle? Or do you have to keep trying other puzzles until you solve one?

Assuming the link doesn’t show the actual word (because if it did, legions of Wordle fans would rise up to destroy you for giving it away), how do you explain the connection between that koala and your picture without letting the world know that the word is koala?

Haha. You sound exactly like me on this one. I was just going to pass and not worry about it.

[cvcalhoun]

2/18/2023
Saturday Service

[bikingjenn]

2/18/23 Service Saturday Edmonton Food Pantry

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[Boomer Cycles]

2/18/23 – community service Saturday
All the peeps in this pic stopped along the Anacostia River Trail & performed an impromptu act of community service by clearing debris from a tree that fell down across the trail (probably during the recent rain [emoji2414] & wind [emoji100] storm).

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[CBGanimal]

2/18/2023 Saturday Service

I stopped along the 4 mile run trail and did 15 min clean up of trash. Inspired

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[JoM]

2/18/2023 Community Service

Thankful for all the trail work at Camp Tamarancho, trails were in great shape!

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

2/18/23 Service Saturday
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There are many signs like this along the W&OD, and truly the trail is generally remarkably clean of trash — at least the section that I ride.

[camiller]

2/18/2023 Service Saturday

The Salvation Army is an international organization that provides a variety of services including disaster relief, food pantries, homeless shelters, job training, veterans’ services, services for the aging and much more. This one is located on Ox Road in Fairfax.

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[sszibler]

2/18/23 Service Saturday, Bike Lane Uprising

After taking a photo of the Capital Area Foodbank in the NE near Ft. Totten metro with my bike leaning on the volunteer sign, I stumbled across a DC Metro bus #6421, DC plate B 44475, parked partially in the bike lane with obvious bike icon and green paint not visible in this photo (but I have others on Strava), and submitted it after some issues with the app (wouldn’t accept my password even after changing it), to their website (https://www.bikelaneuprising.com/database-feed). That’s a voluntary service I regularly provide to the city and cyclists. I often also report these as obstructions to bike lanes in 311.

[drevil]

2/18 community service

Trail workers fixing the trail at Camp Tamarancho in Fairfax, ca

[Indiana]

@cvcalhoun 224404 wrote:

Okay, since this will be the first (and last!) Wordle for me, how does this work?

When you say a link to whatever puzzle you choose, are we talking about a link to Wordle like you just gave? Or, after you solve it, a link to something that shows all those green and yellow boxes like the ones I’ve been filtering out of my Facebook feed? Or a link that shows the actual word?

If you fail to solve a Wordle, does it still tell you what the answer was? And even if it does, can you use that word if you didn’t solve the Wordle? Or do you have to keep trying other puzzles until you solve one?

Assuming the link doesn’t show the actual word (because if it did, legions of Wordle fans would rise up to destroy you for giving it away), how do you explain the connection between that koala and your picture without letting the world know that the word is koala?

The spirit of Wordplay Wednesday is to encourage you solve a puzzle yourself without peaking here first, but no one’s going to check. No need to display your colored squares! Given the vastness of the world wide web I’m sure there are ways to find out the Wordle answer of the day without actually attempting to solve the puzzle yourself. Or you could always just wait until someone else posts here if trying it out is particularly objectionable or doesn’t fit into the day.

The reason the instructions say to post the link is just in case someone chose to use a different puzzle, we could all see what daily puzzle they picked.

Maybe there’s not a big overlap between cold weather cyclists and puzzle aficionados, or maybe there is, who knows? This theme was one way to force a tiny bit of spontaneity since no one knows the word in advance, not even the organizers

Some scavenger hunt days are meant to be easy, some harder, some requiring keener powers of observation, some involving creativity to make something basic appear more interesting or to stretch a definition if a certain object or theme can’t be found.

I might not be able to answer other questions before Wednesday, so…when in doubt, forge ahead boldly anyway!

[Indiana]

@AlanA 224413 wrote:

Haha. You sound exactly like me on this one. I was just going to pass and not worry about it.

Always an option! But weren’t you the one giving us all those anagrams? Sort of similar, but less prescribed, I guess.

[cvcalhoun]

@Indiana 224443 wrote:

when in doubt, forge ahead boldly anyway!

Okay, but if I get murdered by Wordle fanatics for giving away the day’s word prematurely, it will be all your fault!

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