Top chefs? Prize winners of some sort?
Are said people mostly alive or mostly dead now.
Are said people mostly alive or mostly dead now.
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Manfred Belheim
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The things in question aren't people, but they are physical things that exist in the countries in the present day.
I shall have a go if that's alright. I'm going to attempt to just upload this directly. Let me know if it's completely the wrong size, or should be uploaded to some external image hoster or something, and I will edit accordingly.
I also think this is probably relatively easy compared to some of the previous examples I've seen, so I'll start by providing zero clues, which may not be a great idea. And to top it all off, I can't even guarantee that it's 100% accurate! But to the best of my knowledge it'll be 95%+ accurate, hopefully enough to point to the correct answer anyway.
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Something like pharmacies or miles of paved highways?
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Nope...
I think I might have to re-evaluate my fear that this was easy
I think I more meant that I couldn't think of a clue that would be helpful without making it obvious.The rought numbers I gave in post 580, although imprecise, are of the right order. So even the darkest blue has hundreds, to maybe just over a thousand. And the lighter shades significantly fewer than this.
A clue that's probably more confusing than helpful - by local definitions, India would actually have by far the highest amount, but the vast majority don't qualify according to more standard definitions.
So this is something that people have, or own...
Luxury item of some sort?
Luxury item of some sort?
Can I confirm that all countries and territories have at least a few? Or does the lightest shade include zero?
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Individuals don't really own these, but families might. And they aren't luxury items themselves, but can definitely be involved in the production of luxury items.
Yes the lightest shade (white) includes, and is most likely, zero.
Another clue: the map generator had the option to split the UK into separate regions (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) and I chose not to do so because I thought the regional differences would have been too big a hint. But maybe I could add that as a separate blowup map
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Michelin star restaurants?
This bit is perplexing me. It is something a bit more abstract like a family name, a gene or a language?
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No not this, but broadly speaking this is in the same sort of category as the thing in question.
Definitely not abstract, just not likely to be individually owned I wouldn't expect.
Is it corporate or business related ownership?
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Pretty much yes, but the map itself is more about the infrastructure a particular niche production would use, rather than the ownership or production or economic details directly.
Fiber optic cable or internet connection access?
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Nope. Getting colder. I'll add the divided UK map that I mentioned. The colours are to the same scale as before (rough though it is)
Did we eliminate that it is some sort of natural resources, raw or refined?
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Number of Scottish pubs?
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It is related to refining a natural resource, but not the resource (or resources) itself. The required resources aren't particularly special to these areas though and are reasonably ubiquitous.
No, but probably the best guess yet.
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Scotch or Whiskey Distilleries in particular?
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It is whisk(e)y distilleries!
I had a lot of trouble pinning down exact numbers and my initial map was based on naively trusting the first source I found. Subsequent googling uncovered endless articles disagreeing with each other. In the end I just used the numbers from here:
www.thewhiskyardvark.com
This largely agreed with the most common numbers I was seeing in other places (at least in the right ballpark) and I thought it was good enough to give the right general idea. But you can probably see why I wasn't too sure. Almost anywhere could have a distillery or two tucked away.
India produces a huge amount of whisky, and I think more than half of the best selling brands in the world are Indian, but the vast majority of the "whisky" produced there wouldn't be classified as such internationally.
I had a lot of trouble pinning down exact numbers and my initial map was based on naively trusting the first source I found. Subsequent googling uncovered endless articles disagreeing with each other. In the end I just used the numbers from here:
Distilleries | The Whisky Ardvark
Discover one of the most extensive lists of whisky producing distilleries around the world
www.thewhiskyardvark.com
This largely agreed with the most common numbers I was seeing in other places (at least in the right ballpark) and I thought it was good enough to give the right general idea. But you can probably see why I wasn't too sure. Almost anywhere could have a distillery or two tucked away.
India produces a huge amount of whisky, and I think more than half of the best selling brands in the world are Indian, but the vast majority of the "whisky" produced there wouldn't be classified as such internationally.
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