tlohde

i've got a good ceiling

09:39 09/05/2024 672 words
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a long train journey with a handful of stops provides me with the opportunity to present to you a game. ✨guess the ceiling✨. inspired by the first dozen photos i took on this trip, the majority of which were of ceilings.

i don’t need to know the names of particular styles, shapes or features. i’m not an architect or a roofer. i’d like to know some of the jargon, i do, after all, like ceilings[1], however, there isn’t really any imperative to set about learning them, so i might just have to[2] make peace with my ignorance.

anyway…because this idea doesn’t deserve any more of my time than i’ve already given it, you will be required to mark your own homework. be honest. you’ll only be cheating yourself.

here we go…

are you ceiling lucky?

image of a ceiling
Fig 1: an easy one to start. where is this?
answer...platform 5 of frankfurt-am-main-flughafen-fernbahnhof.3 points
image of a ceiling
Fig 2: it's munich hbf. but what snack did i get for the journey across austria?
answer...laugenbrezel * 2.2 points (1 for each pretzel)
image of a ceiling
Fig 3: we're at the bus station in which italian province capital? and what was the temperature reading on the time/date/thermometer?
answer...trento. 25 ℃.10 points for trento.** **-3 points for every degree wrong
image of a ceiling
Fig 4: needless to say, this is st pancras international. platform 6. but which way did my train leave?
answer...⟵ that way1 point
image of a ceiling
Fig 5: is this (a) paris est or (b) köln hbf?
answer...wrong. this is the old meat market / abbatoir on rue ropsy chaudron in brussels.2 points
image of a ceiling
Fig 6: where is this?
answer...46.14615° N 10.76824° E5 points** (-1/2 point for every 10th degree out in either direction)
image of a ceiling
Fig 7: ramping up the difficulty now. this is liege-gullemins. but am i looking nw or se?
answer...nw. obvs. bonus point if you realized that i am sitting on the right-hand side of the train, looking back over the right shoulder. and i’m sorry that the angle on this isn’t better.7 points
image of a ceiling
Fig 8: have you been paying attention?
answer...yes – this is clearly frankfurt-am-main-flughafen-fernbahnhof – taken from the level above the platforms.4 points
image of a ceiling
Fig 9: ticket hall at bolzano station, or the gents at brenner?
answer...ticket hall at bolzano.1 point

scoring

maximum of 35 points available

use the look-up table below to see your final score:

pointsfinal score
351
220.9
everything else0

footnotes

  1. clearly ↩︎

  2. i think i already have ↩︎

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