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Tallest Building Visible from the Stop

Note

  • Available in Medium Large games
  • In exchange for answering this question, the hider should normally Draw 3, Pick 1 card in the long game and Draw 3, Pick 2 cards in the end game.
  • Can be cached in the end game
  • Can be zoomed

This is the tallest building from your perspective, not the objectively tallest building. If you can see the Burj Khalifa miles and miles away, but a nearby apartment building is taller from your perspective/sightline, you would send the apartment building.

If the stop has entrances, then you must stand immediately outside of the entrance. If not, then you must stand at the stop. If there are multiple entrances, you may choose. Must include roof and both sides, with the top of the building in the top ⅓ of the frame.

In general, the transit stop itself cannot count as the tallest building visible from the transit stop. The exception would be if atop the transit stop is a tall building whose purpose is unrelated to the transit stop. For example, atop Grand Central Station is the MetLife building. This would count as the tallest building visible from the transit station.

A building is a human-made construction designed to shelter people, creatures or objects, that fully encloses an area, with walls and a roof that are connected, and directly on the ground or a human-made foundation, with a reasonable expectation of permanence in location for longer than a season. More than one human must be able to fit inside it with ease, maintaining reasonable personal space. They can be bigger on the inside than the outside. Constructions that are underground without a building on top of them are excluded. If in doubt, if it has a door through which you enter it, it’s a building.

Things that are buildings:

  • houses
  • office blocks
  • signal boxes
  • British telephone boxes
  • wind turbines and windmills
  • a triumphal arch
  • the ticket office to the London Eye

Things that are not buildings:

  • tents
  • metro entrances that are not fully enclosed
  • open bus shelters
  • the TARDIS (no expectation of remaining in location for longer than a season)
  • the London Eye (the structures designed to enclose are moving)
  • model buildings (can’t fit a human in them. Minifigs are not human)