Landmarks · Puzzle #22 · Wednesday, October 21
Landmarks: the board
Eight items, eight categories, one place each. Here is the board with every figure and where it comes from, and the best way to place them. Play today's Landmarks.
The categories
- All white: 10 pts if mostly white
- Crowd pleaser: 1 pt per doubling over 5,000 a year
- Known worldwide: 1 pt per 15 Wikipedia languages
- Hot spot: 1 pt per 5°F of yearly average over 30°F
- Far from the equator: 1 pt per 6° north or south
- Rainy: 1 pt per 8 inches of rain a year
- Altitude: 1 pt per 1,000 ft above sea level
- Most looked-up: 1 pt per 100,000 Wikipedia views in 2025
The best board
The best board is hidden while some of these items are still in play: they're on a board again within 14 days.
The lineup, figure by figure
Jiuzhaigou
Valley of turquoise lakes and waterfalls
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0 On this board Jiuzhaigou scored best in Crowd pleaser (10.0): it drew 5.12 million visitors in 2024. All white was its weakest fit (0.0): it isn't mostly white.
- All white
- isn't mostly white (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Crowd pleaser
- drew 5.12 million visitors in 2024 (10.0) Source: sichuan.scol.com.cn
- Known worldwide
- Wikipedia has an article on it in 56 languages (3.7) Source: Wikipedia
- Hot spot
- averages 37°F over the year (1.4) Source: Wikipedia
- Far from the equator
- lies 33° from the equator (5.5) Source: Wikipedia
- Rainy
- gets 28 inches of rain a year (3.5) Source: Wikipedia
- Altitude
- sits 7,329 ft above sea level (7.3) Source: Copernicus GLO-90, via Open-Meteo
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 106,105 times in 2025 (1.1) Source: Wikimedia page views
Eiffel Tower
Wrought-iron lattice tower built for a world's fair
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG, Public domain Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Cathedral of Brasília
Church whose curved columns reach for the sky
Photo: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Chichén Itzá
Maya city with a stepped pyramid
Photo: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Lake Louise
Turquoise glacial lake below a glacier
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0 Lake Louise drew 4.56 million visitors in 2025, so its best fit on this board was Crowd pleaser, worth 9.8. Its weakest was All white, worth 0.0, since it isn't mostly white.
- All white
- isn't mostly white (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Crowd pleaser
- drew 4.56 million visitors in 2025 (9.8) Source: open.canada.ca
- Known worldwide
- Wikipedia has an article on it in 31 languages (2.1) Source: Wikipedia
- Hot spot
- averages 26°F over the year (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Far from the equator
- lies 51° from the equator (8.6) Source: Wikipedia
- Rainy
- gets 38 inches of rain a year (4.7) Source: Wikipedia
- Altitude
- sits 5,679 ft above sea level (5.7) Source: Wikidata Q1367398, P2044
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 47,156 times in 2025 (0.5) Source: Wikimedia page views
Mount Kinabalu
Granite peak rising from rainforest
Photo: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Parthenon
Marble temple to the goddess Athena
Photo: Steve Swayne, CC BY 2.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Matterhorn
Pyramid-shaped peak on the Toblerone box
Photo: Gianluca Miscione, CC BY-SA 4.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
