Congrats to our 2026 winners!!

After neatly stacking all returned forms in a shoebox, we randomly selected 15 forms and graded select clues for accuracy. Those listed below are our 2026 winners and have been contacted by the Gumshoe team! Thanks to all for participating!

See you next year!!

Rebecca D.

Linnea N.

Laurel G.

Angela G.

RL M.

Jenny T.

Mary B.

Emily K.

Jack M.

Mike H.

Charles S.

Ohana G.

Avonlea G.

Katie P.

Robert M.

Rebecca D. • Linnea N. • Laurel G. • Angela G. • RL M. • Jenny T. • Mary B. • Emily K. • Jack M. • Mike H. • Charles S. • Ohana G. • Avonlea G. • Katie P. • Robert M. •

2026 Financials

The Gumshoe is all about building community, connecting people to local businesses, and raising money for a good cause. 100% of the 2026 proceeds have been donated to the Ballard Food Bank and Aurora Commons.

Proceeds

After subtracting costs from net sales, $11677 has been donated. A 33% increase from 2025!

2026 Gumshoe Solved

August 2026 Answers

The walk started and ended at the PCC Community Market, 7504 Aurora Ave N.

1 96 Exit PCC and immediately ramp past multiple parks and an hour limit to where traffic blocks your forward progress. Turn to 30. What number accompanies the consonant trio behind Mimi the cat’s tail? (N 47.6835°, W 122.3443°)

2 Knob At the appearance of the partially obscured broad metropolis, follow its pickets as its 2s are to 8s. Where three boles (look it up—expand your vocabulary!) stand in a row, flank the partition that blocks them to the second metal door. For entry: lever, latch or knob? (N 47.6844°, W 122.3439°)

3 Blue Past box instructions, at Crawford’s door, proceed under yellow then blue cover to the factory store. What is the color of the squirrel’s gift wrap paper? (N 47.6850°, W 122.3443°)

4 Juggling Corner with the rose’s business, past notice to the round heads. Nearby, what does Renegade do? (N 47.6855°,
W 122.3430°)

5 9s Continue beyond the pink-feathered duo and end zone to twist away from the present and roll like a bike would down the route easiest on its brakes to the sign of security. With what three of its numbers might its 7s or 8s be combined to produce a poker full house? (N 47.6852°, W 122.3417°)

6 Paw At the byway identifier, where a pair from the preceding clue appears, head as its cardinal direction is to its digits, to the leafed barrier. What do bones surround? (N 47.6848°, W 122.3406°)

7 School Curve to where multiple acts of balancing occur. What is a grouping of the rusty water dwellers called?(N 47.6850°, W 122.3396°)

8 Lake Cross the next intersection, then angle less than 90 degress to flank the long tree line to stop. Continue in the direction from which the bike came to the driver advisory with two rights that are wrong according to pavement markings. On the sign behind it with a lot, what body of water? (N 47.6859°, W 122.3384°)

9 10 At the arrow threesome, follow the one most opposite the other two, past circled layers and between two pairs of buttoned pointers to the the window that adds up to what you’re doing. Now take the path of greatest personal energy expenditure to the next turning point and go to the matching black letter exchangers. Add the single digits on both, subtract the last digit of the left number from the sum, divide the remainder by the last digit of the right number and add 1 to the quotient. What number results? (N 47.6856°, W 122.3355°)

10 2 Short of 1, 2, 3, climb beyond where nothing happened or, if the posted door is open, an electronic gaming place, to the skeletal dome. You’ve just completed the most taxing part of this year’s Gumshoe, so rest and count the inanimate wader birds. How many? (N 47.6864°,
W 122.3337°)

11 Original Drop to the crossroads but don’t. Instead, make your way between stacked and piled rocks to the paired poles, then follow their lines past that on high which transforms to #215836. What model? (N 47.6856°, W 122.3331°)

12 Cow Skull At your next route decision point, take the unpaved option past the back of the stone chimney to the bin pad. With the

or Camera in your rear view mirror, traverse to the circled roadway, taking its high side past the demon-infested bark to the isosceles triangled doors. What oversees them? (N 47.6842°, W 122.3329°)

13 Duplex Proceed on the gravelly tangent port of the overseer to its t-intersection. Take the t’s stem past a couple of turn indicators to the point where one is required. Execute the action by putting the stoned horizontal plane in your wake, and cruise to the stepped rainbow. Near its riser of gold, how best to describe the mini-structure with a roof of the same color: single-family, duplex or triplex? (N 47.6852°, W 122.3312°)

14 Cat At the stops, turn so as not to cross and ascend past rosy if petalless pots to the cool fence. Dog, cat or squirrel? (N 47.6862°, W 122.3306°)

15 Left Glide through the glade to corner with gray, skirting the container quartet, until Claudia’s sticker comes into view. Pivot towards the hoops, staying to the side with the fewest. Well beyond the shrub-surrounded focus of an arborist’s work, where deliveries are redirected from a window: right or left? (N 47.6854°, W 122.3314°)

16 Grass At the next crossing do so, then continue in the only direction the green nozzles are not pointing. Beyond the 10-yard warning, at 41, change direction to walk the easiest path to prohibited bodily functions. What follows the?
(N 47.6845°, W 122.3303°)

17 Children’s Beyond the cowed water supplier, at the hooter, whose school? (N 47.6834°, W 122.3303°)

18 CWM Where green’s on green, speed past the limit to the crushed gravel boulder field. What’s over malleable?
(N 47.6828°, W 122.3312°)

19 Birdbath Follow the stacked retainer to pass pairs of red-flagged boxes and ringed trunks to the slimy warning. What’s atop the stoney column? (N 47.6844°, W 122.3315°)

20 Helen Cross to the palm and descend past the safe sign to the small no-cost storage facility. Head the way its 61 faces and beyond the knight to the row of countrified containers. What woman’s two- syllable name is scrambled within the manufacturer’s? (N 47.6840°, W 122.3331°)

21 2016 At the next intersection, flow as a babbling brook would past the feline peering from behind the lamp post to the embedded and crooked drain line. Follow its general direction to the digits totaling seven. Squint: What year follows the dashed five? (N 47.6841°, W 122.3346°)

22 Flat Cross not to the villa, but climb to the next turning point, then do a 90 to pass starboard of the monitored oval. Beyond many reservations, in what shape must boxes be? (N 47.6851°, W 122.3350°)

23 Excellent Where 77 arrows ranging from two dozen to one score appear over your shoulder, roll as wagon would between them and the stained pole to reach another. Rotate clockwise 810 degrees to follow the arched way past the open cup to that which is urban. How’s it rated? (N 47.6854°, W 122.3361°)

24 Japan Button over 9 pairs of parallel lines, some barely visible, and head to the shallows. When rabbits appear, fork right, then repeat the process. Where is the tree just beyond the bridge native besides South Korea? (N 47.6850°,
W 122.3377°)

25 Pizza When asphalt splits, go stripe-less to the almost blank octagon. What kind of party? (N 47.6848°, W 122.3394°)

26 Bear Take the long uninterrupted straightaway past the wrought iron triplets and lantern twins, then redirect away from one way without crossing to ahead. Where the stakes are high, what stares from beneath the sparsely leafed trunk in the window? (N 47.6836°, W 122.3403°)

27 Smile Past BFW and the miniature game, at the joined poles, cross to follow the binned route. Pass the rusty five-pointer to the 24-hour notice. What is recommended that you do for the recording device? (N 47.6833°, W 122.3422°)

28 Hexagon Where of co is grounded, head past please to a street-width short of the black pointer. Follow its direction to the second of several clamshelly boundary markers. Around the tree: octagon, hexagon or pentagon? (N 47.6820°,
W 122.3423°)

29 Shoes Yield beyond the hooded tacos to continue the only way. Near the intense flavor zone, just off your beaten path, clothes and what? (N 47.6817°, W 122.3443°)

30 PSGL26_ Stroll past the house eater to light your way into the welcoming district. Where & is spelled out, what’s the promo code? (N 47.6831°, W 122.3443°)