I keep trying, people. I really do. I keep trying to make these Macro Monday puzzles easier without giving the game away completely … I’ve posted pictures before which look so easy to me and you’ve all struggled, so I’m not going to say this one is easy. Just have a go, huh?
Now, this is something you won’t find in a house, although there are some buildings where you can find them, and I actually found one in the bathroom of a guest house once. That, however, was highly unusual, and I’ll probably never see that in my lifetime again, unless I go back to the same place!
Outside the house they’re very common indeed, and although there are some places in the world where they are not to be found, there really can’t be anyone who has access to a computer and hasn’t at least seen one of these things.
Most of you will have used the object this is a part of. Most of you will own one – possibly more than one. However, sometimes the object doesn’t have this particular feature … and this applies more in the US, I believe, than in other countries. If you are in the US, and you feel the need for an extra clue, go here for a second picture of a different part of the object which, if you ask me, should completely give it away. But remember, the puzzle is the picture on this page, and that’s what I want the answer to.
So, off you go. I’m expecting lots of correct answers this week! The answer will be posted here tomorrow evening (UK time) in a link at the bottom of this post, along with the winners, and there will be further information in the comments.
Have fun!
And here we are on Tuesday evening, and I see I made this one far, far too easy! I think it is pointless picking out a winner since only two or three of you failed to guess right, but I have to say, well done, pretty much all of you!
The correct answer is here, in picture form as usual. So, thanks for playing! Next week … well, I’ll make it harder again, see if I don’t!
MWAHAHAHAHA!
Ho ho, I’m first and I think I know the answer to this – is it a gearstick in a car? One of the hints that gives it away is the amount of dirt and crud that gathers – why do they attract all the crumbs?
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AHHH Lola stole my thunder. I’m sure it’s the base of a shift stick. Pretty blue! I’m an automatic girl myself.
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Bottom of a stick shift in a car. TA-DAAAA!
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Ooops, they’ve beaten me to it! Tho’ I confess it did take me a while staring at it to decide. You are very inventive, this is a fun weekly challenge – Lord knows how you dream these up! (Smile)
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Wow..very cool.. i thought it was something in a cra or suitcase..but i know i am wrong! Love the blue color!
Beautiful macro!
Kiki~
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I stared and stared and there was something niggling in the back of my brain telling me that I knew this one, but I just couldn’t figure it out. However, when I saw some of the guesses, I was pretty sure they were right, so I’m going with the rest of the crowd and guessing gear shift. It’s been a loooong time since I’ve driven a stick shift.
Now, I’m curious… why on earth was there one in a bathroom?
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The gear shift in your vehicle?
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The base of the gear stick. You are right about cars in the US and Canada – most people drive an automatic. When I bought my car, the dealers kept asking me why I wanted a manual. Some of them actually asked my husband the question, even though I think it was pretty obvious that the car was going to be mine. Mr. DBM shrugged and said the decision had nothing to do with them and perhaps they should try asking me! Needless to say, I didn’t buy my car from them.
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Its a gear shift in a car! I think? xoxo
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Yes I agree gear or something leather:).
Unusual stitches but I like the color.
This is the stick shift in a car. The other one the steering wheel. Cool blue leather!
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Cool shot! I’m in agreement with everyone else
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Jay, I protest in the name of my sanity! LOL!
I haven’t got the foggiest! o.O
Wanted to with you a Happy Spring, Jay! xo
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Stickshift or joystick for sure; but what was it doing in the bathroom of a guesthouse????
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Looks like the leather cover of the gear shift in a car.
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That’s a leather from a shifting gear in the car.
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Is it worth it to add my two cents worth? It’s the leater thingy that covers the bottom part of the gearstick in either a car or a coach (although those aren’t owned nearly as much as cars are).
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ohh! i think this is the first one I actually know !
going with the gearshift, too.
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I think this one is either very easy, or a very crafty one. I think it’s a car gearstick cover. Obviously with a gearstick inside
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regardless as to what it is you have great detail in your macro!
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Well, cover around a gearshift seems likely – sewn leather -expensive car. I haven’t gone and looked at the other clue. I’m thinking it’s not this easy.
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Oh yes – I think I know this one – is it the cover over the gear stick in a car. A
At first I also thought it is a gear shift in a car but with this complicated “it is but still it is not” explanation of yours, who could know what it is?
I was thinking it is the clutch in the car, but then I peeked at the other picture, and now I’m lost..
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I know what this is
It’s in a car and it is a gearshift. The blue is leather.
Great shot!
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My guess is the same as everyone’s.
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The nostrils of a boozed crocodile ?
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Before reading the comments I came to the same conclusion so I will agree with the others that it looks like the bottom part of an auto gear shift.
You really saw one in a bathroom?
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This one is easy, I knew at first sight it’s the gearstick of a car! Great macro!
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trying to figure how it could be gear shift if had something to do with computer.At first I thought wireless accesory
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Sandy – It has nothing directly to do with a computer, I just meant that if you’re online looking at this, then the chances are you will also have seen one of these.
Sorry for the confusion!
Gearshift is a good guess, but I’m thinking some kind of sports accessory.
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Yep, seems like a gearshift cover to me – or a leather nose..
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I would guess the boot of a gearshift too.
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I came back to see the answer and since my Hubs walked by he said gearshift boot and the other shot stitching on a steering wheel.
Everyone – Well done you lot! I see I made this one too easy, but I still have to say congratulations to everyone except those few who didn’t guess that it was the leather cover of a gearstick! And you were probably thinking it couldn’t be that easy, weren’t you?
This is the gearstick in the little BMW Z3 that I refuse to let OH sell. It’s such a comfortable, fun little car, though horribly impractical and a real extravagance. No chance of getting a greyhound in there!
As you see, while it does have a gearstick which looks very traditional with its leather cover (or boot, as some of you call it), it is, in fact, an automatic. Quite rightly, most of you guessed that the other picture is a close-up of the steering wheel. This car is getting old now, but I love it – it’s such a pleasure to drive.
I do love Gattina’s guess, though I’m glad it’s not!
DBM – Oh, how I hate it when they do that! I had the same thing when I was organising us to move from NZ to England – the wretched men kept asking OH what was going where and how, despite the fact that I’d done ALL the booking and arranging and paying for it – with the result that some of the stuff we needed immediately went by sea! GRR!
Dutchbaby – There is a rather lovely and unique guesthouse in St George, Utah, called The Seven Wives Inn. The rooms and suites are themed, and the one we stayed in was 1920′s style – it’s called ‘Sarah’. Not content with that, they’d installed all kinds of motor memorabilia, including a 20′s petrol pump in the bedroom and a Model T Ford in the bathroom, converted into a hot tub! Now, there’s something you don’t see every day!
Thanks for playing – see you next week?
Gattina’s guess…yes, and if it was I would have liked to have been there when you were taking the photo. LOL!
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HOOOORAY!! I FINALLY got one correct! Its a miracle!
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I’m late to the party so I won’t hazard a guess. I do like the image and that’s the important part.
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Hi Jay – haven’t been here for awhile so I’m catching up! I knew instantly what this one was, since I’m one of the few people left in the USA who has a stick shift car!
Haven’t figured out today’s though…