Eleventh Floor: An Implausible Price Tag Becomes Mile 89
A number that makes little sense as a price functions as the mile value.
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The Clock Without a Face
Ninth Floor: A Motto-Like Phrase Points to Idaho
A phrase associated with Idaho’s motto helps establish the state.
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Eighth Floor: Hopscotch Rocks Encode 95
Rocks positioned on the 9 and 5 squares of a hopscotch board supply I-95.
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Eighth Floor: “Connect–Eye–Cut” as Connecticut
A Connect Four game, an eye and scissors form a phonetic rebus for Connecticut.
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Twelfth Floor: Four Teas Become Forty
Four tea cups / T imagery encode “four-T,” sounding like forty.
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Twelfth Floor: Correcting a Fake Element Symbol to Get Arkansas
A periodic table shows “Mi” where Argon (Ar) should be.
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Eleventh Floor: George Washington as the State Clue
A dollar-bill portrait of George Washington identifies Washington.
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Tenth Floor: Reading 3-0-7 from Legs
Counts of legs on three depicted objects form the mile value 307.
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Tenth Floor: Adding Visible Numbers to Reach I-75
Numbers 24, 25 and 26 are combined to make 75.
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Seventh Floor: A Heinz-Style Label with the Wrong Number
A familiar Heinz 57 visual is altered to show 56, supplying the mile.
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Seventh Floor: Finding Indiana by What the Balloons Do Not Cover
A U.S. map is obscured by balloons except for Indiana.
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Sixth Floor: Building “Ohio” from Picture Sounds
Three pictured elements can be read phonetically as “Oh-hi-oh.”
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Fifth Floor: When a Book Title Supplies the Highway Number
A copy/reference to The 39 Clues provides 39 for I-39.
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Fifth Floor: Using a Magic Square to Identify a State
A magic-square result points to the 21st state, Illinois.
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Third Floor: Reading a Number Backward in a Mirror
The mile value appears reversed through a mirror.
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Second Floor: Why an Impossible Time Can Be a Mile Marker
An unusual displayed time of 1:80 points to mile 180.
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Second Floor: Using the Lone Star to Identify Texas
Lone Star imagery on chili boxes indicates Texas.
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First Floor: When the Mile Number Is Simply Hidden in the Rug
The mile value 262 appears in the paisley rug.
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First Floor: Reading a Newspaper Date as Interstate 81
A newspaper date visually contains the digits needed for I-81.
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First Floor: Using Famous People to Encode Virginia
Portraits of Thomas Jefferson, Dave Matthews and Missy Elliott all connect to Virginia.
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The Three-Part Location Grammar of The Clock Without a Face
Each apartment hides data for a U.S. state, an Interstate highway and a mile position.
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