Daily podium trophy
The Triadelphia Bell
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Sherwood colors
In 1809, three Quaker brothers-in-law, Thomas Moore, Isaac Briggs, and Caleb
Bentley, founded a mill town on the Patuxent River and named it
Triadelphia, "three brothers." By the 1830s it was a thriving village of
mills and shops, and its 1837 bell rang out each morning to call the mill
hands to work.
Great floods in 1868 and 1889 destroyed the town, and in 1943 Brighton Dam
submerged what remained beneath the reservoir that now bears its name. The bell
survived it all. Today it stands outside Sherwood High School, just down
the road from every spot in this game.
That's the bell on these trophies. Third place rings in Sherwood's colors, in
honor of where the real one still stands.
Launch week badge
The Crossroads
If Olney has a center of gravity, it's this: Route 108 and Georgia
Avenue, the crossroads the whole town is built around. Every commute,
every errand, every "meet you at the corner" runs through it.
This badge goes to the neighbors helping the game grow during launch
week — anyone who shares it, from the home page or their score page,
before Labor Day 2026. After that, it will never be available again.
Perfect daily
The Scott Van Pelt
Hall of Perfection
A perfect daily is 5,000 out of 5,000: five rounds, five guesses
within about 30 metres of the spot, and not a single hint. Taking a hint
halves that round's ceiling, so perfection is by definition unaided.
Long before he was the face of sports on the world's biggest sports
network, Scott Van Pelt was a kid shouting from the bleachers of
Sherwood's football stadium, a few minutes up the road from most of
the places in this game. Same roads, same fields, same neighborhood.
Anyone who manages it is listed in the Hall for good, and carries this
badge on their profile.
Perfect attendance trophy
The Old Sherwood
Schoolhouse
Play the daily every day of a week, Monday through Sunday, and you
earn Perfect Attendance. Miss a single day and the week resets, so this one
rewards showing up more than any lucky guess.
The Sherwood name has meant school in this community for well over a
century. Long before the campus neighbors know today, local children walked
to a plain brick schoolhouse to learn their lessons, rain or shine. Getting
there every single day, on foot and on time, was its own quiet achievement.
Think of this as the game's gold star on the attendance chart. Seven days,
no gaps, and the old schoolhouse takes a place in your trophy case.
The community megaphone
📣 Megaphone
For a Day
Finish on the daily podium — a Triadelphia Bell,
top three for the day — and the next day you get the megaphone: one line of
your choosing that scrolls across the top of the home page for every neighbor to see.
Plug your yard sale, congratulate a rival, shout out the crossing guard, or just say
"Hi Mom." You post it from your profile the morning after you place, and it runs until midnight.
Play the daily. Crack the top three. Take the mic.
About the creator
Hi, I'm Kevin Klein
I'm a Greenwood Gator, a Rosa Parks Dolphin, an Olney Pirate, a Sherwood
Warrior, and now a proud resident of Brookeville.
I like building things that help people celebrate where they live, and I
run two businesses that were both inspired by Olney:
Here Be Dragons,
where people create fantasy maps of their towns, and
Little Roads Co,
where people create kids' road rugs of their towns.
With Where in Olney? I hope to help people slow down, take stock of the
rural-suburban charm all around us, and see the magic in the mundane.
If you'd like to say thanks, put a beer next to my name on the Beer It
Forward board at Brew Belly!
Weekly podium trophy
The Sandy Spring
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Long before there was an Olney, there was a spring. Quaker families began
settling this stretch of countryside in the 1720s, and they named their
community for the little spring that bubbled up through sandy soil near what
is now Meeting House Road. The name stuck: Sandy Spring.
The village grew up around the Friends Meeting House, built in 1817
and still in use every First Day. Sandy Spring's Quakers freed the people they
had enslaved decades before the Civil War, and the community of Friends and
free Black families that grew here became a documented stop on the
Underground Railroad. Their descendants founded the Sandy Spring Bank,
the local fire company, and the museum that keeps the story alive today.
The spring itself is still there, ringed in old fieldstone in a quiet hollow
below the meeting house. That stone arch and the water at its foot are what
you earn for a week at the top of the standings.
