Puzzle #15 — 2026-08-03
The answer was Kenya. The scene was built from Nakuru. Difficulty: medium.
Placeholder art. This day currently shows a programmatically drawn stand-in, not a generated scene. It is replaced when the image pipeline runs against a real provider.
The clues, in the order they were revealed
- A shallow alkaline lake on the floor of a continental rift.
- Flat-topped acacia trees dot the grassland around it.
- A steep escarpment closes off one side of the valley.
- Traffic keeps to the left on roads with red laterite verges.
- The country sits on the equator in East Africa.
What the scene was built from
The location is chosen first, from a hand-curated whitelist, and the image is generated to match the description below. That order is what makes the answer checkable: the scene is built for the place, not guessed from the picture.
| vegetation | flat-topped acacia, yellow fever trees, savanna grass |
|---|---|
| terrain | alkaline rift-valley lake under a steep escarpment |
| architecture | rendered blockwork with corrugated roofs |
| roadside | left-hand traffic, red laterite verges |
| signage | Latin script (never rendered legibly) |
| light | equatorial highland light, sun near vertical |