Treasure hunt material can be found on the Treasure Hunt page.
Lock and Clock
Do something with that.
Tak Is About to Be Your New Favourite Game
The Modern Rogue, a pair of theatrical fellows. Wait till they see Atlantis Chess!
Atlantis Chess is here! That is the big one. More information in the library.
Someone's confused.
For the last game, the knight won for the first time, reaching the opponent's water square. It is normally the cubes that win the game. Sometimes it is rooks, once they get out of their cage. Bishops are like snipers that can
take you off guard. Seahorses never get to the water square, in my experience. Knights would have to traipse across the board without being killed.
I don't remember a game where one side landed on the vision square and didn't win.
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In my experience really nothing works for a float except root beer. But I have not tried this.
Do Ukrainians have their own palate for sweets? More research must be done in this area.
Baikal is a drink from Russia the Soviet Union, named after a beloved big lake out east. With multiple ingredients, I can't give a neat
description, but it tastes like Pine Sol. I certainly like it. Russian goods have become hard to come by, at the Ukrainian store.
Siberian ginseng is not the same as ginseng.
But I got a version of Baikal made in Ukraine. It doesn't have the Pine Sol taste.
This particular product contains .. what's the word at the bottom left? (and what's with the word on the right?)
The word on the left is lemonade
pronunciation.
I asked the lady if the product contains lemonade, but she said no. Lemonade is a generic name for something along the
lines of flavoured drinks. It reminds me of the way people in the American south refer to all sody pop as cokes.
"Do you want a coke?"
A sneak peek at the Calgary Stampede's 2025 'wacky' midway food
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Unleash Your Wild Side at the Calgary Stampede
You may want to explore the channel, "Travel Alberta".
Chaharshanbe Suri festival
Artesh Awtash is the Persian word for fire.
You can catch the pronunciation of Iran while you're there.
The plot thickens. The Persian word for army is artesh.
What is the Ukrainian letter for the z sound? What about the l sound?
You're going to need the z sound if you want to spell Azov.
And what's the letter for the v sound?
And how about the r sound?
You're going to need it if you want to spell Russia.
We can always start to decrypt things with the word for tank, which is spelled TAHK.
Just make sure the second vowel is not e. It's a sensitive issue.
A bustling metropolis.
How do you pronounce the first letter in Ukraine? You've heard President Zelensky.
Horilka, the Ukrainian word for vodka. Different from Russian and Polish.
What's the letter for the p sound?
Ryan McBeth
See "China's Sinister Solar Panels and the Plan to Black Out the World!"
Canadian soldiers are in Latvia, as part of a Canadian-led brigade.
I get fiction ideas. Nothing will ever come of it.
"I didn't mean to impugn his ass."
Alouette, a long-distance space bus.
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Fictional band name: Alexander's Dark Band.
Also Moe and the Rons.
We've all had trouble when we were frustratingly stuck trying to figure out what the password is to get into the system. I used to have a pattern of passwords based on heavy metal band names.
Somebody has a role on Alouette. He is figuratively sweating as he tries to remember what his password is. "We will be landing in 25 minutes". He goes through band names trying to remember what the password is.
Do you know what Parkinson's law is? The amount of time taken to do a project grows to the amount of time allotted for it.
Alouette goes on a long voyage into the depths of the galaxy. A group of scientests/engineers are working on a program
to find life on a distant planet. In spite of all the time allowed for this, the scientists are scrambling at the
last minute to finish and perfect the project. Kind of funny.
Of course the captain has been assured that everything will be ready to go on time.
People will identify with this. The project wasn't quite ready because of this, that factor, don't forget testing.
I'm trying to avoid any reference to violence, everything from war to fistfights. A topic for another day. Anyway
Imagine a country that chooses not to make trouble because the other side might cause chaos within the country. Drones popping out from transported boxes, spies, assassins, computer hacking, firebugs, information warfare, economic obstacles, separatists or something along those lines, people conned into doing sabotage, more drones popping out, and more hacking, in a world with robots. Not long-distance missile bombardment, but threats disturbingly within the country, mysteriously activated from outside at the flick of a switch.
See the Military section.
Titanic
You and everyone knows what that means. More than a boat, you know the story just from hearing one word.
Bonaventure
Everyone knows what that means, just from the one word. Another long-distance ship, the Bonaventure, disappeared.
Unlike the Titanic, it hits closer to home, more recent, and there is no explanation for why it disappeared.
Predicting the future. What's the word I'm looking for? Fortune teller.
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I'm thinking of adding a Time Machine section.
when would you want to go to
interesting experiences, scenes
cultures that just look like rocks now
clear up mysteries
A couch cephalopod.