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Frank Lloyd Wright built a house on a waterfall
Answers for Globle, Metazooa, Elemingle and more from May 5 - May 11
Abe Train
May 12, 2025
Coming to your inbox every Monday with a brand new fun-fact and all the answers to Trainwreck Labs games from the past week.
This week, we have…
New game announcement: Metavita!
A fun fact inspired by Chronogram
Answers to last week's games
Reader survey
Introducing: Metavita!
Calling all taxonomic titans! The game that goes beyond plants and animals is HERE.
Forget waiting for daily species drops — in Metavita, YOU control when games begin and end. Create your own mind-bending tree of life spanning animals, plants, AND fungi, then challenge friends to uncover your hidden mystery species!
Love Metazooa and Metaflora? Prove your knowledge extends far beyond with the ultimate classification challenge. Start designing your taxonomic puzzles now!
Frank Lloyd Wright built a house on a waterfall
But maybe not on his first try.
Maggie Rogers' evokative song "Fallingwater" likens herself to water in a creek, fighting the current. The title references a home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright (Chronogram guest for May 6) in 1935. This architectural marvel sits atop a running waterfall in the mountains of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Wright created the house for the Kaufman family, owners of Pittsburgh's largest department store, embodying his philosophy of organic architecture—a seamless unity of nature and art.
Completed in 1939 using native sandstone quarried by local craftsmen, Fallingwater served as the Kaufman family's vacation home. Today, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy manages this iconic structure as one of Wright's most celebrated works. Throughout his prolific career, Wright designed over 1,000 buildings across the United States and beyond, with notable examples in Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Phoenix, and even Japan.
Wright believed architecture's mission was "to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life." While visiting Fallingwater might be a special pilgrimage, you can explore Wright's principles by discovering architectural treasures in your own community. Many cities offer architecture walking tours that reveal the stories behind familiar buildings. As you explore these designs, consider how they reflect or contrast with Wright's philosophy and how his revolutionary approach to harmonizing human structures with nature continues to influence design thinking today.
Learn more: Fallingwater, The Met Museum
Trivia
In another musical reference, the 1970 song titled “So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright” is sung by which artist(s)? |
Answers to last week's games
Monday, April 28 to Sunday, May 4.
Globle
| Globle: Capitals
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Chronogram
| Fictogram
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Metazooa
| Metaflora
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Linxicon
The following are the shortest paths from last week:
#447 dress → clothing → cotton → coal
#448 breakfast → restaurant → store → keep
#449 implication → consequence → restitution → restore
#450 dust → matter → measures → dimension
#451 raise → growth → food → salad
#452 culture → subculture → section → part → partly
#453 nervous → suspense → climax → end
#454 Play now!
Elemingle
#103 Lithium
#104 Ytterbium
#105 Argon
#106 Rubidium
#107 Mendelevium
#108 Cobalt
#109 Polonium
#110 Play now!
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