Congrats to our 2025 winners!!
After neatly stacking all returned forms in a shoebox, we randomly selected 16 forms and graded select clues for accuracy. Those listed below are our 2025 winners and have been contacted by the Gumshoe team! Thanks to all for participating!
See you next year!!
Matt I.
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Bill S.
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Mike H.
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Craig K.
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Jen G.
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Mark H.
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Betty E.
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Debora B.
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Suzanna L.
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Katie W.
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Greg L.
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Maggie M.
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Lorcan S.
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Riley M.
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Ada S.
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Miranda M.
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Matt I. • Bill S. • Mike H. • Craig K. • Jen G. • Mark H. • Betty E. • Debora B. • Suzanna L. • Katie W. • Greg L. • Maggie M. • Lorcan S. • Riley M. • Ada S. • Miranda M. •
2025 Financials
The Gumshoe is all about building community, connecting people to local businesses, and raising money for a good cause. 100% of the 2025 proceeds have been donated to the Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church Food Bank.
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2025 Gumshoe Solved
August 2025 Answers
The walk started and ended at the Take 5 Urban Market, 6757 8th Ave NW.
1 Printing Exit Take 5 and proceed vertically to the orbiter’s image. For what is an appointment recommended? (N 47.6792°,
W 122.3662°)
2 9 A ways beyond a panda’s lunch, at the freckled wheelers, turn opposite their direction of travel to confront the literate poultry. How many petals on the largest of the similar two? (N 47.6778°, W 122.3662°)
3 Red Go the way the hare pair is headed, past the showcase to the intestinal urns. What color polka dots? (N 47.6778°,
W 122.3675°)
4 Wired orb Continue across the big head’s line of sight over Armor’s rectangle, then its curved counterpart, to just short of another of its rectangles. Now roll as marbles would to follow insulated lines to the flowered shelter. In the pot: vented cube, plumbed pyramid or wired orb? (N 47.6774°, W 122.3686°)
5 8/9 Beyond the rainbow, at the next directional decision point, cross the road less travelled to enter the zone. Where the sidewalk is teed by an alley, take the latter to the circled ‘shrooms. How many monarchs? (N 47.6764°,
W 122.3693°)
6 2018 Stay on line past inline to where dogs can’t go, then turn to follow the plastered retainers, ignoring the one that corners, to where a quarter of the the sum of the yellow-backed digits equals half a dozen. When was the last inspection? (N 47.6776°, W 122.3699°)
7 Nugget Pass raised paws, a juggling dancer and tented tables to turn onto the rutted route past one through six. Before what’s next, what’s curly? (N 47.6773°, W 122.3725°)
8 Pollinators When India’s bell-centered cover appears, redirect to the nearest mirrored arrows. At the sign of Paul, redirect again as pen is to firm past the feline-guarded pot to the space between the planted arbor and strung poles. Cross to the cabled framework. All what are welcome? (N 47.6772°, W 122.3721°)
9 Bell Ascend to diagonal between the stripes at the next crossroads, then hedge your way to the doorless depository. In the tower: bell, buzzer or light? (N 47.6788°, W 122.3719°)
10 Behlen At the corrugated trio, cross and put school behind you. When the brown barricade blocks your forward progress, go the way of its opening to below Tarter’s pair. At ground level, what country? (N 47.6796°, W 122.3729°)
11 Tricycle Corner with the maroon foliage past rusty pipes to the small silver-spiraled pot. Tandem, tricycle or recumbent?
(N 47.6802°, W 122.3735°)
12 Heart Immediately look for Lifetime’s hooped handiwork and 45 to the right of it and past the oxidized flying duo. Beyond the brick-surrounded bell system but before the gray wall’s terminus, locate the glassed fence. What unbroken shape stands out? (N 47.6817°, W 122.3738°)
13 Me/Us Between the towered tub and upward-staring feline, who, pronoun-wise, appears in the ship’s wheel? (N 47.6822°,
W 122.3737°)
14 Squid When the serpent blocks your way, curve with the aquatic animals past the elementary to the last tile. Clams and what? (N 47.6833°, W 122.3740°)
15 Green Cross to the skateboarder, then head the way the bus came to the matching car doors. Take the grassed path past them to where the brown barrier faces a multi-colored one. What color results from combining those of the twins and the quintuplets next to the red flower? (N 47.6837°, W 122.3748°)
16 Your Dog With your back to gnarly wood nodes, proceed to where dirt yields to hardscape, then turn past the trunk between beds. Clean up after what? (N 47.6850°, W 122.3744°)
17 Frogs Continue past where the biker with child came from to the sunk sink. What animals occupy it? (N 47.6850°,
W 122.3733°)
18 Hurricane Just beyond the banded cylinders, take the uphill route from where the peeper’s not looking. At the pole pair, change course to follow the plant-camouflaged pipes to a bouldered corner, then, even though the way looks private, amble your way under the nearest and largest tree to the wary sign. Diagonally and a bit further along: hurricane, tornado, typhoon, thunderstorm or blizzard? (N 47.6862°, W 122.3721°)
19 Truck When turning is the only option, make a painted petal one. And when crossing is optional, don’t. Instead, follow the gravity-friendly path to the canine resource center. Jumbo dump what? (N 47.6862°, W 122.3715°)
20 2 At the first desolate island, cross with the plane of the top rhombus, then continue with the plane of the lower one such that nearby thick foliage is left behind. At the second, cross with the plane of the bottom one, then, at the first opportunity, descend with the plane of the top. At the coiled pink disc, how many yellow handholds above?
(N 47.6846°, W 122.3703°)
21 Flamingos Past the fenced trio and the directional obelisk, where pointy-headed creatures reside, a feathered pair of what?
(N 47.6838°, W 122.3703°)
22 Spoons Corner with big rocks past the welcoming sun to follow the line between two “resew” anagrams cast into the intersection. At the next intersection, with three of the cast anagrams, follow the line perpendicular to the first in the most laborious direction. Where the octopus hangs on, what support the window’s lid? (N 47.6845°, W 122.3685°)
23 The Flock Follow horizontal and parallel slats through the stoney glade, then across and starboard of the strip’s menagerie of pots. Continue beyond the rainbow wrap to the place where the earth and lives come together. Slow what down?
(N 47.6859°, W 122.3685°)
24 $379.99 Cross and backtrack past where weird is hopefully not made, to corner with that which is cared for by servants. What list price the farm and ranch equipment? (N 47.6852°, W 122.3682°)
25 Owl Where titles come and go, what perches nearby? (N 47.6852°, W 122.3662°)
26 Wings At the next crossing point, use the one virtually any safety officer would recommend to pass port of cornered treads, then another percher, to the fowled pot. What rotate when the wind blows? (N 47.6845°, W 122.3662°)
27 1 Just beyond the trashy fish, at the sometimes-flashy arrows, turn away from the nearest downward pointing one to skirt strung and raised beds to the paired b’s. From that pair, 45 along a line that bisects another pair to follow the twice-interrupted block stack past the framed and foliage-enveloped canine to where science is above kindness. In dozens, how many blades on the stuck spinner? (N 47.6825°, W 122.3674°)
28 KNAACK At the crossroads beyond unstuck spinners, cross to the unpoled corner so you can venture past the rainbow fence to the planted concrete cylinders. Note the angle of a line between them to your line of travel and double the degrees to continue your way. Past tickets, at the first sign of graffiti, take its path to the chest. What does the orange K stand for? (N 47.6809°, W 122.3679°)
29 30330 Continue as 30 is to 48 to the horizontal half-trunk, then pivot through the wall on a circle-interrupted trajectory to another. Now take the nearest apron to the next nearest to spin along the tallest tree line. Near the banded barrels, what number did you text to join? (N 47.6806°, W 122.3684°)
30 Star At the posted original, turn to go where the bumps aren’t. Follow the timbers to where a side-step between troughs leaves CWM pondering your sole. What celestial body? (N 47.6796°, W 122.3677°)