Congrats to our 2023 winners!!

After neatly stacking all returned forms in a shoebox, we randomly selected 13 forms and graded select clues for accuracy. Those listed below are our 2023 winners and have been contacted by the Gumshoe team! Thanks to all for participating!

See you next year!!

Kate B.

Jill F.

Anna S.

Jeremy P.

Erica M.

John P.

Kate W.

Lori D.

Elsa N.

Kristen E.

Livvie B.

Suzannah K.

Stephen O.

Kate B. • Jill F. • Anna S. • Jeremy P. • Erica M. • John P. • Kate W. • Lori D. • Elsa N. • Kristen E. • Livvie B. • Suzannah K. • Stephen O. •

2023 Financials

The Gumshoe is all about building community, connecting people to local businesses, and raising money for a good cause. 100% of the 2023 proceeds have been donated to the Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church Food Bank.

Proceeds

After subtracting costs from net sales, $5,466 has been donated.

August 2023 Gumshoe Solved

August 2023 Answers

The walk started and ended at El Chupacabra, 6711 Greenwood Ave N.

1 Green Where El Chup meets the walk, look closely for the bony proposer and proceed as it is to shorty. A couple of steps past the bark quencher, what color is part of the recollection? (N 47.6779°, W 122.3554°)

2 Armadillo Veer slightly over the horizontal bricks to pass their vertical assemblage. Where the blue-strung ukulele hangs over pot-regimented steps, anteater, armadillo or sloth? (N 47.6769°, W 122.3554°)

3 Alligator Past beds, caged and uncaged, make the only turn, then repeat the same maneuver at the last of the four aligned woody perennials. Beyond the cornered risers, near the next set, what animal with a name that starts with the same letter as the last answer protects the property line? (N 47.6763°, W 122.3563°)

4 20 Diagonal to skirt left of the phalangeless figure, then right of the fish cowboy to the baggy trunks. What is plenty?(N 47.6776°, W 122.3565°)

5 Gnome Near the cornered hedgehog, where yellow waits underfoot on all untraveled paths except one, take the exceptional path and repeat this operation when the situation arises again. Well beyond the flamingo but just a short ways beyond the painted landscape porch, what is the bear eating dipped in honey? (N 47.6768°,W 122.3574°)

6 4 Carefully cross the next throughway and continue past concrete impressions of diamonds to wood impressions of numerals, winging past the oxidized creature with rebar legs in the process. What homonym of a cry heard on the greens is half eaten? (N 47.6752°, W 122.3574°)

7 2 Go past the peeling yellow supporter of flame suppression to the peeling mostly green one, then proceed in the direction of its chained cap to the camels. How many humps on the largest? (N 47.6741°, W 122.3577°)

8 Frogs Descend to more yellowed corners, but cross to the white one to gently ascend to the stoned poles. Between them, what languish below the sharing container? (N 47.6734°, W 122.3586°)

9 Face When a change of direction is mandatory, proceed upward and behind the small herd. In bed with it, past the shards and enveloped in foliage, a rusty fork, fiddle, face or fern? (N 47.6723°, W 122.3584°)

10 Seahorse Corner with the rockery to the wire supported wire supporter and find its inventory number. Put its pair of 7s behind you and locomote to the bespectacled dragon. What animal is in its eyes? (N 47.6719°, W 122.3572°)

11 1 Backtrack to the net and continue as life is to time. Where stones curve, follow their trajectory past the caged bins to the partially obscured zero. Near the zero, add all the individual digits in the two different seven-digit numbers plus those in the ten-digit number, and divide the sum by the largest pair of digits in the pole inventory number, treating the pair as a single number. Now subtract the sum of the lesser of the most frequently appearing digits inall three numbers from the quotient and multiply the difference by the greater of the most frequently appearing digits in all three numbers. What is the product? (N 47.6716°, W 122.3590°)

12 Sun Roll as a bowling ball would, shifting gutters as required for safe downhill passage to where paint attempts to provide safe horizontal passage. Take that passage it to its end, then rotate counterclockwise 810 degrees and continue past the intertwined spirals of primary colors to the pink trio. What smiles behind the turkey? (N 47.6704°,W 122.3610°)

13 Knife At the next all way, take the pedestrian’s stopless route past present to the protruding mosaic. What eating utensil is on point? (N 47.6695°, W 122.3625°)

14 Golf Zig a little, then zag a little to pass the free zones, then beeline to the end one. From there, hoop past the green and brown roof, orange sun and blue bench to the red diagonal stripes. What does the shorted man play? (N 47.6706°, W 122.3639°)

15 Breach Parallel and turn with the colorful spinner’s low retainer and follow the trunk line to defaced time, then continue as ark is to in until the snake appears. What now? (N 47.6713°, W 122.3628°)

16 Star Diagonal to the archway. What heavenly body would shine, if it was real, above the dragonfly? (N 47.6716°, W 122.3631°)

17 Dog At the poleless corner, digress from straight ahead and without crossing, follow the leafiest way to the strung out bulbs. Sign of the cat, rabbit, ferret, hamster, dog, pig, horse or wombat? (N 47.6724°, W 122.3637°)

18 Drift Cross right of China, then without backtracking, take the most gravitationally challenging route to the wood garden. What design? (N 47.6731°, W 122.3641°)

19 9 Well beyond the bulldogs and a third of a dozen tetrahedrons, look for signs of respect. G-what? (N 47.6755°, W 122.3641°)

20 Surfing When provisions interrupt your forward progress, head clean past the LL business, then the walkway covering the color of blue mixed with yellow, to push your way beyond the business that’s perpetually the color of the covering. Next to it, what sport? (N 47.6761°, W 122.3664°)

21 Notes Without crossing it, take the arithmetic operation past the row of colorful containers and numbered birds to peaks on peak. Near diamond shapes, four musical whats? (N 47.6768°, W 122.3665°)

22 Mexico Spin past hot beverage containers, lists of beliefs and the flowered bike, following the way uninterrupted by vehicular traffic to discover Metalfrio behind glass. What country has its solutions? (N 47.6795°, W 122.3662°)

23 2 Warily continue along the lighted pathway and through the split seating to angle with its edifice to the top-hatted crow. How many hair dryers? (N 47.6794°, W 122.3646°)

24 Bees Do a hearts bypass to the arrowed post. To what insects might the tubed house appeal? (N 47.6790°, W 122.3646°)

25 2017 Flank the beaded fence to the midway point between a boxed set of black numerals totaling 16 and a signed set of off-white ones totaling 74. Leave the no sign behind and propel yourself to the ski tipped pole. Within a yard, when was the last inspection? (N 47.6779°, W 122.3634°)

26 Green Cross to the sculptured yard and continue, keeping left of L. Pass 32 uniform panes to the first fairly unobstructed view of the screened and foliage-surrounded feather washer. Proceed so as to pass the second unobstructed view. Just beyond the pair of eagles, what color is the beaked occupants’ front door? (N 47.6775°, W 122.3616°)

27 Hissy Cruise past the rockin’ garden to the place to can’t be seen until you’re close. Cross not. Instead, do a 90 and ascend, curving opposite the stringed instruments. At the multi-containered residence, what type of fit? (N 47.6764°, W 122.3607°)

28 Key Where four leafy maroon canopies shade the walk in two directions, attentively cross to climb past the pseudoblocked bulwark to the tiled resting place. What’s an ilco? (N 47.6777°, W 122.3595°)

29 Triangle Take the steepest grade to the words containing the letters of everywoman, then 45 to the thicket hiding a bike inside. Let overhead lines guide you from there to the reflecting rail. In close proximity, what dinner-announcing geometric shape? (N 47.6778°, W 122.3580°)

30 Watts Below the county line, in the bulbless fixture, 60 what? (N 47.6778°, W 122.3569°)