Definitions

Inspired by Lilac11's blog, this page gives the definition of the words used when searching for objects in the SSHM pictures. Whether it is for your own general culture or to help foreign language and cultural players, you will find a basic definition for the words on this page.

As one person wrote, 'The Secret Society ; Expanding your vocabulary one object at a time '.


 * Accordion - Flower Shop/Winter Street - Musical instrument played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block.
 * Alarm clock - Misty Shed/Crashed Plane - An alarm clock is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of individuals at specified time.
 * Albatros - Treasure Island - The albatros is a large white seabird with long narrow wings.
 * Amanita - Forest House - A mushroom of the poisonous species.
 * Amber piece of - Observation Deck - Amber is fossilized tree resin.
 * Antlers - Throne Room - Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the deer family. They are true bone and are a single structure.
 * Anvil - Mill - An anvil is a tool consisting of a large block of metal, with a flattened top surface, upon which another object is struck.
 * Armadillo - Joy Cafe - Armadillo is any of a family of burrowing edentate mammals found from the southern U.S. to Argentina and having the body and head encased in an armor of small bony plates.
 * Axe - Tavern/Forester's Base - An axe is an implement that has been used to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber or as a weapon.
 * Backgammon - Heart of the Dunes - Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games. It is a two player game where each player has fifteen pieces (checkers) which move between twenty-four triangles (points) according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to be first to bear off, i.e. move all fifteen checkers off the board. Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games.
 * Backpack - Forester's Base/Spooky Yard/Cosmos Hall/Polar Station - A cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders, but there can be variations to this basic design
 * Bagpipe - Mill - . Bagpipes are a woodwind musical instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.
 * Baguette - Flower Shop - A baguette is a long, thin loaf of French bread that is commonly made from basic lean dough. It is distinguishable by its length and crisp crust.
 * Bandana - Rock Stage - A bandana  is a triangular or square piece of cloth tied around the head or neck for protective or decorative purposes.
 * Barometer - Captain's Cabin - A barometer is an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
 * Basbousa - Heart of the Dunes - Is a traditional Middle Eastern sweet cake. It is made from cooked semolina or farina soaked in simple syrup ; coconut is also a popular option to add into this pastry. Orange flower water or rose water is also an optional addition to the simple syrup used in the basbousa.
 * Bathyscaphe - Captain's Cabin - A bathyscaphe is a free-diving self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable, as in the classic bathysphere design.
 * Bell or Handbell - Mountain Resort/Misty Shed/Palatial Office/Theater/Amusement Park/Venice/Festive Dinner - A bell is a hollow metallic device that gives off a reverberating sound when struck.
 * Bellows - Lost Laboratory/Ancient Library - A bellows or pair of bellows is a device constructed to furnish a strong blast of air. The simplest type consists of a flexible bag comprising a pair of rigid boards with handles joined by flexible leather sides enclosing an approximately airtight cavity which can be expanded and contracted by operating the handles, and fitted with a valve allowing air to fill the cavity when expanded, and with a tube through which the air is forced out in a stream when the cavity is compressed. It has many applications, in particular blowing on a fire to supply it with air.
 * Belt - Luxury Express/Excavations - A belt is a flexible band or strap, typically made of leather or heavy cloth, and worn around the waist.
 * Beret - Flower Shop - A beret is a soft, visorless cap with a close-fitting headband and a wide, round top often with a tab at its center.
 * Bib - Nursery - A piece of cloth, plastic, or paper that covers the chest and is often tied under the chin of a child to protect the clothing while the child is eating.
 * Binocular - Mountain Resort/Ancient Library/Polar Station/Ship's Deck/Observation Deck/Amusement Park/Treasure Island - Binoculars are two telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes (binocular vision) when viewing distant objects.
 * Bixi turtle - Tea Corner - Is a figure from Chinese mythology. One of the 9 sons of the Dragon King, he is depicted as a dragon with the shell of a turtle.
 * Bonnet - Nursery - A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin
 * Bonzai tree - Spring Festival - Bonzai is a Japanese art form using cultivation techniques to produce small trees in containers that mimic the shape and scale of full size trees
 * Boomerang - Tropical Evening - A boomerang is a thrown tool, typically constructed as a flat airfoil, that is designed to spin and return to the thrower. It is well known as a weapon used by Indigenous Australians for hunting.
 * Bota bag - Farm/Vikings Village - A wine bag made of untanned goatskin and holding 1–2 liters
 * Bow - Observation Deck/Orangery/Playground/Amusement Park/Palatial Office/Theater - A bow is a knot formed by doubling a ribbon or string into two or more loops OR in the Throne Room - A weapon that is used to propel an arrow and that is made of a strip of flexible material (such as wood) with a cord connecting the two ends and holding the strip bent.
 * Brooch - High Tower - A brooch is a decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments, often to hold them closed. It is usually made of metal, often silver or gold but sometimes bronze or some other material. Brooches are frequently decorated with enamel or with gemstones and may be solely for ornament (as in the stomacher) or sometimes serve a practical function as a fastening, perhaps for a cloak.
 * Broom - Haunted Attraction/Winter Street - An implement for sweeping, consisting of a brush of straw or stiff strands of synthetic material bound tightly to the end of a long handle.
 * Bugle - Tavern - A bugle is a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
 * Bun - Luxury Express - Bread Roll or Kaiser Roll
 * Bundle of spikes - Mill - Not in dictionary but resembles a bundle of wheat
 * Calendar - Wonder Shop/Secret Mailroom -A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years.
 * Camellia - Observation Deck - A shrub with white, pink, red, or variegated roselike flowers.
 * Camera - Polar Station/Rock Stage/Ghost Town/Amusement Park/Mountain Resort/Aviation Museum/Nursery/Ship's Deck - A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images.
 * Candy floss or cotton candy - Tree of Dates/Bakery/Winter Street/Spring Festival - Cotton candy made from spun sugar (aka Fairy Floss)
 * Cello - Curiosities Room/Garden Tea Party - A bass instrument of the violin family, held upright on the floor between the legs of the seated player.
 * Cezve - Heart of the Dunes/Eastern Bazaar - A cezve is a small long-handled pot with a pouring lip designed specifically to make Turkish coffee.
 * Chain mail - Vikings Village - Armour chain or maille (also chain mail(le) or chainmail(le)) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh.
 * Chamomile - Bakery - Chamomile is the common name for several daisy-like plants of the family Asteraceae. Two of the species are commonly used to make herb infusions.
 * Cherub statue - Throne Room - A Cherub statue is a statue of an angel whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child.
 * Clock - Winter Street/Theater/Night Garden/Aviation Museum/Secret Mailroom/Actress's Room - A clock is an instrument to measure, keep, and indicate time.
 * Clownfish - Captain's Cabin - The clownfish (also known as the anemonefish) is a small species of fish that is found around tropical coral reefs.
 * Clutch bag - Actress's Room/Banquet Hall - A clutch bag is a slim, flat handbag without handles or a strap.
 * Cobra - Excavations - Cobra is the common name for various venomous snakes.
 * Cobweb - Tavern - A cobweb is the net which a spider makes for catching insects.
 * Coconut - Chinese Teahouse/Bungalow/Tropical Evening - The term coconut can refer to the fruit of the coconut palm, which, botanically, is a drupe, not a nut.
 * Compass - Forester's Base/Excavations/Treasure Island/Ship's Deck/Polar Station - A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions (or points)
 * Coral - Captain's Cabin/Treasure Island - Corals are marine invertebrates. They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.
 * Cordierite - Vikings Village - Cordierite (mineralogy) or iolite (gemology) is a magnesium iron aluminium cyclosilicate. Iron is almost always present and a solid solution exists between Mg-rich cordierite and Fe-rich sekaninaite.
 * Corgi - Garden Tea Party - Breeds of  dogs  having  short  legs,  erect  ears,  and  a  foxlike  head.
 * Crane - Japanese House/Tea Corner - Cranes are a family of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes.
 * Croissant - Luxury Express - A rich, crescent-shaped roll of leavened dough or puff pastry.
 * Croquet mallet - Garden Tea Party - Croquet is a sport  that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops embedded in a grass playing court.
 * Crossbow - Tavern - A crossbow is a type of ranged weapon based on the bow and consisting of a horizontal bow-like assembly mounted on a frame which is handheld in a similar fashion to the stock of a gun.
 * Crystall ball - Curiosities Room/Haunted Attraction/Spooky Yard/Forest House/Witch's Hut - A crystall ball is a crystal or glass ball and common fortune telling object.[ It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying in particular.
 * Dagger - Heart of the Dunes/Venice - A dagger is a knife with a very sharp point and two or more sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon
 * Daisy - Mill - A daisy is a flower which have a yellow disk and white rays.
 * Daruma doll - Japanese House - A wishing doll that keeps one focused on achieving goals
 * Domono's tiles - Tea Corner - Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular domino tiles. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends.
 * Doublet - High Tower - A doublet is a close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance.
 * Dove - Illusionist's Room/Banquet Hall - A dove is a bird with a plump body, short beak and legs, and small head.
 * Dragon - Tavern - A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around world.
 * Drakkar bow - Vikings Village - Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure . Some might have had a dragon's head on the bow ( front of the ship ).
 * Drinking horn - Forester's Base - A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel.
 * Drumstick - Rock Stage - A drumstick a stick for beating a drum. a stick for beating a drum.
 * Earmuffs - Polar Station - Earmuffs are objects designed to cover a person's ears for hearing protection or for warmth.
 * Easel - Observation Deck - A stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
 * Eiffel tower - Actress's Room - The Eiffel tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
 * Elf - Christmas Eve - A Christmas elf is a diminutive elf that lives with Santa Claus at the North Pole and acts as his helper.
 * Fairy - Christmas Eve - A fairy is a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having diminutive human form and magic powers.
 * Film reel - Aviation Museum/Ghost Town - A film reel is a spool on which film, especially motion-picture film, is wound.
 * Flask - Forester's Base/Rock Stage - A flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket.
 * Flute - Chinese Teahouse/Throne Room/Spring Festival - A flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.
 * Fortune Cookie - Chinese Teahouse - A fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", on which is an aphorism, or a vague prophecy.
 * French Macaron - Tree of Dates/Flower Shop - A round, colored cookie consisting of a filling between two halves; not to be confused with macaroon which is a drop cookie of almond paste or coconut
 * Fujiyama - Japanese House - Also known as Mount Fuji
 * "Garden" item - Japanese House - a miniature decorative "zen garden", a tray of sand with a rake for making furrows.
 * Gas Canister - Farm - Petrol Can or Jerry Can
 * Gear - High Tower - A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut like teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.
 * Geta sandal - Japanese House/Spring Festival - Geta sandals are a form of traditional Japanese footwear that resemble clogs and flip-flops. They are a kind of sandal with an elevated wooden base held onto the foot with a fabric thong to keep the foot well above the ground.
 * Globe - High Tower/Ship's Deck/Crashed Plane - A globe is a spherical model of Earth.
 * Gnome - Tavern - A gnome is a species of diminutive beings, usually described as shriveled little old men, that inhabit the interior of the earth and act as guardians of its treasures; troll.
 * Gong - Tea Corner/Japanese Shrine - A gong is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet.
 * Good luck knot - Tea Corner - A Chinese knot is a knot that is tied and woven from a single length of cord or rope to be a variety of shapes and of varying complexity. Each shape has its own symbolic meaning, and nowadays you can find them as decoration, gifts for special occasions, and adornments on clothes.
 * Gramophone - Ghost Town/Curiosities Room - A gramophone is an old type of record player.
 * Grapping hook - Mountain Resort - A grapping hook is a device with multiple hooks, attached to a rope; it is thrown, dropped, sunk, projected, or fastened directly by hand to where at least one hook may catch and hold.
 * Gravy boat - Luxury Express - A gravy boat is a boat-shaped pitcher in which sauce or gravy is served. It often sits on a matching plate, sometimes attached to the pitcher, to catch dripping sauce.
 * Guitar - Mountain Resort/Saloon/Misty Shed/Ship's Deck - The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
 * Hand drill - Excavations - A hand drill is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for boring holes in various materials or fastening various materials together . It is activated by hand power.
 * Hand fan or Fan - Actress's Room/Venice/Banquet Hall/Theater/Tea Corner/Chinese Teahouse/Spring Festival/Observation Deck/Palatial Office - A handheld fan is an implement used to induce an airflow for the purpose of cooling or refreshing oneself.
 * Handkerchief - Banquet Hall - A handkerchief is a small usually square piece of cloth used for usually personal purposes or as a clothing accessory.
 * Hang glider - Tropical Evening - A hang glider is a kitelike glider from which a harnessed rider hangs while gliding down from a cliff or hill.
 * Harmonica - Flower Shop/Saloon/Rock Stage/Farm - The harmonica is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres.
 * Harp - Tavern - The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
 * Harpoon - Vikings Village/Treasure Island/Captain's Cabin/Tropical Evening - A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other marine hunting to catch large fish or marine mammals such as whales.
 * Headphones - Rock Stage/Film Studio - Headphones are a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears.
 * Hedgehog - Garden Tea Party - Hedgehogs are a small, insectivorous mammals that can be found throughout the world.
 * Hoe - Farm - A hoe is a tool with a thin flat blade on a long handle used especially for cultivating, weeding, or loosening the earth around plants.
 * Holly - Christmas Eve - A holly is a genus of trees and shrubs with spiny-margined evergreen leaves and usually red berries often used for Christmas decorations.
 * Honeycomb - Farm - A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal wax cells built by honeybees in their nest to contain their brood and stores of honey.
 * Hookah - Heart of the Dunes/Buddha's Square - A hookah is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco, whose vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation.
 * Horseshoe - Misty Shed/Festive Dinner/Saloon - A horseshoe is usually a U-shaped band of iron fitted and nailed to the rim of a horse's hoof to protect it. When kept as a talisman, a horseshoe is said to bring good luck. Some believe that to hang it with the ends pointing upwards is good luck.
 * Hourglass - Throne Room/Ancient Library/Curiosities Room/Mill/Farm- An hourglass is a device used to measure the passage of time. It comprises two glass bulbs connected vertically by a narrow neck that allows a regulated trickle of material (historically sand) from the upper bulb to the lower one.
 * Hours - Night Garden - Not in dictionary but resembles a clock face.
 * Ice Skate - Polar Station/Christmas Eve - Ice skates are boots with blades attached to the bottom, used to propel the bearer across a sheet of ice while ice skating.
 * Inkwell - Ancient Library/Captain's Cabin - An inkwell is a small jar or container, often made of glass, porcelain, silver, brass, or pewter, used for holding ink in a place convenient for the person who is writing.
 * Jeep - Excavations - A four-wheel drive vehicle of one-half- to one-and-one-half-ton capacity for reconnaissance.
 * Jerboa - Excavations - Mouselike rodent of North Africa and Asia, with long hind legs used for jumping.
 * Jester's hat - Throne Room - A jester's hat is made out of flamboyant colored fabric with bells at the end of three points.
 * Jujube - Eastern Bazaar - Dictionary definition is not the same (a small candy or lozenge with fruit flavoring or a Chinese date) but resembles a slice of cake roll which is cake rolled with a cream filling. Jujubes are two laters ..a jelly type candy layered either a white concotion. Then rolled like a jelly roll and then the outer layer (the colored. Gel layer) rolled ed in sugar before the roll is sliced. There are other types of candies called jujubes which are ( or we're) sold in movie theater concessions. These resemble jelly beans /jelly bellie.
 * Katana - Spring Festival - Historically, katana were one of the traditionally made Japanese swords that were used by the samurai of ancient and feudal Japan.
 * Kettle - Japanese Shrine/Tea Corner/Crashed Plane - A kettle is a type of pot, typically metal, specialized for boiling water, with a lid, spout, and handle.
 * Kimono - Japanese Shrine - A kimono is a loose, wide-sleeved robe, fastened at the waist with a wide sash, characteristic of Japanese costume.
 * Kite - Japanese Shrine/Crashed Plane - A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. Kites often have a bridle and tail to guide the face of the kite so the wind can lift it.
 * Koi - Japanese House - Koi's (fish) are colored varieties of Amur carp that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens.
 * Kokeshi doll - Japanese Shrine - Kokeshi are Japanese dolls, originally from northeastern Japan. They are handmade from wood, have a simple trunk and head with a few thin, painted lines to define the face. The body often has floral and/or ring designs painted in red, black, and sometimes green purple, blue or yellow inks, and covered with a layer of wax. One characteristic of kokeshi dolls is their lack of arms or legs.
 * Kolt - Vikings Village - Kolt or kolty was a part of a female headgear, hanging on a ryasna at both temples as a sign of family's wealth, common in 11th-13th centuries in Old Rus'. It comprised a pair of metal pieces, joined to form a hollow medallion or star that, presumably, contained a piece of cloth, impregnated with fragrances.
 * Ladybug - Tree of Dates - A ladybug is a widespread family of small beetles. The family is commonly known as ladybugs in North America.
 * Lantern - Ghost Town/Festive Dinner - The term lantern describe many types of portable lighting, but lanterns originated as a protective enclosure for a light source.
 * Lavender - Tea Corner - Lavendula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
 * Liana - Excavations - A woody vine
 * Lei - Tropical Evening/Bungalow - The most popular concept of a lei in Hawaiian culture is a wreath of flowers presented upon arriving or leaving as a symbol of affection.
 * Lock - Forester's Base - A lock is a mechanical fastening device that is released by a physical object such as a key.
 * Lollipop - Haunted Attraction/Amusement Park/Winter Street - A l ollipop is a type of sugar candy usually consisting of hard candy mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking.
 * Lorgnette - High Tower - A lorgnette is a pair of spectacles with a handle, used to hold them in place, rather than fitting over the ears or nose.
 * Lute - Tavern/Venice - A lute is a stringed instrument  having  a  body  shaped  like  a  pear  sliced  lengthwise  and  a  neck  with  a  fretted  fingerboard  that  is  usually  bent  just  below  the  tuning  pegs.
 * Magnifier - Lost Laboratory/Ancient Library/Captain's Cabin - A magnifier is a simple, small magnification device used to see small details more closely. With an handle by opposition to a loupe.
 * Mallet - Haunted Attraction - A mallet is a kind of hammer, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head.
 * Mammoth - Curiosities Room - A mammoth is an extinct genus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.
 * Mandrake root - Witch's Hut/Forest House - Mandrake is a type plant . Mandrakes contain deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids and the shape of their roots often resembles human figures, they have been associated with a variety of superstitious practices throughout history.
 * Maracas - Joy Cafe - Maracas, sometimes referred to as rumba shakers, are percussion instruments traditionally made out of a hollow gourd and filled with pebbles, beans, seeds, beads or other similar objects.
 * Marzipan - Bakery - Is a confection consisting primarily of sugar or honey and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract.
 * Microphone - Luxury Express/Theater/Rock Stage - A microphone is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.
 * Microscope - Lost Laboratory/Ancient Library - A microscope is an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
 * Mittens - Spring Festival/Mountain Resort - A covering for the hand and wrist having a separate section for the thumb only.
 * Mobile - Tree of Dates - A mobile: a decorative, often humorous design of artistic imagination.Hanging from a single point, suspended by wire and thread, it is made up of several shapes in different materials, all of which revolve independently under the influence of even the faintest currents of air in a domestic interior.
 * Monocle - Festive Dinner - A monocle is a type of corrective lens used to correct or enhance the vision in only one eye. It consists of a circular lens, generally with a wire ring around the circumference that can be attached to a string or wire.


 * Mortar - Lost Laboratory/Ancient Library/Witch's Hut - A mortar and pestle is a kitchen implement used since ancient times to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder. The mortar is a bowl, typically made of hard wood, metal, ceramic, or hard stone, such as granite. The substance to be ground, which may be wet or dry, is placed in the mortar, where the pestle is pressed and rotated onto it until the desired texture is achieved.
 * Muff - Actress's Room - A muff is a thick, tubular case for the hands, covered with fur or other material, used by women and girls for warmth and as a handbag.
 * Musket - Treasure Island - A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun.
 * Noh mask - Japanese House - Noh is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama; the lead actor wears a mask which signifies age, gender, and social ranking.
 * Nutcracker - Christmas Eve - A nutcracker a well-known type portrays a person whose mouth forms the jaws of the nutcracker, though many of these are meant for decorative use.
 * Oar - Wigwam/Camping Site - An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion. Oars have a flat blade at one end. Rowers and canoeists (not kayakers) grasp the oar at the other end.
 * Octopus - Captain's Cabin - The octopus is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc . Like other cephalopods, the octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a beak, with its mouth at the centre point of the arms. They trail their eight arms behind them as they swim. The siphon is used both for respiration and for locomotion, by expelling a jet of water. Octopuses have a complex nervous system and excellent sight, and are among the most intelligent and behaviourally diverse of all invertebrates.
 * Omamori - Japanese House/Spring Festival - Japanese amulets, charms, or talismans which are said to provide various forms of luck or protection
 * Onigiri - Spring Festival - A Japanese rice ball made from white rice filled with fish or kelp.
 * Origami - Japanese Shrine/Spring Festival - Origami is the art of folding paper into beautiful objects.
 * Owl - Haunted Attraction/Forest House - Owls are birds nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.
 * Pacifier - Nursery - A pacifier is a rubber, plastic or silicone nipple given to an infant to suck upon. In its standard appearance it has a teat, mouth shield, and handle.
 * Pail - Bungalow - otherwise known as a Bucket
 * Pan flute - Wigwam/Japanese Shrine - The pan flutes are a group of musical instruments based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have long been popular as folk instruments. The pipes are typically made from bamboo, giant cane, or local reeds.
 * Panda - Tea Corner - The giant panda also known as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native to south central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body.
 * Peace symbol - Rock Stage - In the 1950s the "peace sign", as it is known today, was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,[1] a group at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK, and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and elsewhere.
 * Peacock - Tree of Dates - A peacock is a male peafowl distinguished by a crest of upright feathers and by greatly elongated loosely webbed upper tail coverts which are mostly tipped with iridescent spots and are erected and spread in a shimmering fan usually as a courtship.
 * Peaked cap - Ship's Deck/Aviation Museum - A peaked cap is a form of headgear worn by the armed forces of many nations, as well as many uniformed civilian organisations. It derives its name from its short visor (American English, known as a peak in British English), which was historically made of polished leather but increasingly is made of a synthetic substitute.
 * Penny whistle - Wonder Shop - Also known as a tin whistle, a simple flute with six finger holes
 * Phoenix feather - Lost Laboratory - Associated with the Sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. According to some sources, the phoenix dies in a show of flames and combustion, although there are other sources that claim that the legendary bird dies and simply decomposes before being born again. The feather of that bird.
 * Pilaf - Eastern Bazaar - Rice cooked in a meat or poultry broth
 * Pincushion - Ancient Library - A pincushion is a small, stuffed cushion, which is used in sewing to store pins or needles with their heads protruding to take hold of them easily, collect them, and keep them organized.
 * Pinwheel - Ship's Deck - A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind.
 * Pitchfork - Mill/Forest House - A pitchfork is  a long-handled fork that has two or three long somewhat curved prongs and is used especially in pitching hay.
 * Plummet - Ancient Library - A plumb bob; a weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity
 * Peony - Tea Corner - The peony or paeony is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniacea .
 * Plague doctor mask - Lost Laboratory - A plague doctor was a medical physician who treated people who had the plague. They were specifically hired by towns that had many patients with the plague in times of epidemics. The mask of that doctor.
 * Poinsettia - Winter Street/Secret Mailroom - The poinsettia is particularly well known for its red and green foliage and is widely used in Christmas floral displays.
 * Pointer - Spooky Yard - A person or thing that points, in this case a wooden arrow
 * Poker - Witch's Hut - A poker is a metal rod used for stirring a fire.
 * Pomegranate - Heart of the Dunes/Tree of Dates - The pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub.
 * Primus stove - Lost Laboratory - The Primus stove, made of brass, consists of a fuel tank at the base, above which is a "rising tube" and the burner assembly. A steel top ring on which to set a pot is held above the burner by three support legs.
 * Pruning shears - Orangery - The pruning shears also called hand pruners or secateurs, are a type of scissors for use on plants.
 * Rake - Orangery/Farm - A rake is a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines.
 * Raven - Vikings Village/Haunted Attraction/Spooky Yard - The common raven (Corvus corax), also known as the northern raven, is a large all-black passerine bird. Found across the Northern Hemisphere, it is the most widely distributed of all corvids.
 * Rolling pin - Bakery - A rolling pin is a cylindrical food preparation utensil used to shape and flatten dough.
 * Rompers - Nursery - A rompers is a one-piece combination of shorts and a shirt.
 * Ruby - Tree of Dates - A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone
 * Saber - Captain's Cabin/Treasure Island - A saber is a heavy cavalry sword with a one-edged, slightly curved blade, or a light dueling or fencing sword having an arched guard covering the hand and a tapered flexible blade with a cutting edge on one side and on the tip.
 * Saber-tooth cat - Curiosities Room - A saber-toothed cat is any member of various extinct groups of predatory mammals that were characterized by long, curved saber-shaped canine teeth.
 * Saddle - Heart of the Dunes - The saddle is a supportive structure for a rider or other load, fastened to an animal's back by a girth.
 * Salver - Ancient Library - A tray, especially one used for serving food or beverages
 * Samovar - Eastern Bazaar - A metal urn, used especially by Russians for heating water for making tea
 * Samurai helmet - Japanese House - The Samurai Helmet is a large helmet wider than the wearer's shoulders. It has two large, curved, wing-like shapes, one on both sides of the head.
 * Santa's hat - Festive Dinner/Christmas Eve - A traditional red stocking cap has a conical shape, is long and normally features a pompom or tassel at the end, associated with Christmas.
 * Saucepan - Bakery - A saucepan is any type of pan most commonly used for heating sauces and gravies. Saucepans are also made to cook, saute and reheat various foods. They can be shallow or deep and come in various sizes and materials
 * Saxophone - Rock Stage - A saxophone is a musical instrument. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece.
 * Scales - Bakery - scales are devices to measure weight
 * Sconce - Throne Room - A sconce is a type of light fixture affixed to a wall in such a way that it uses only the wall for support, and the light is usually directed upwards, but not always.
 * Scroll - Chinese Teahouse/Throne Room/Mayan Temple/Palatial Office - A scroll is usually divided up into pages, which are sometimes separate sheets of papyrus or parchment glued together at the edges, or may be marked divisions of a continuous roll of writing material.
 * Seagull - Observation Deck - Seagulls or gulls are typically medium to large birds, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings.
 * Sea horse - Captain's Cabin/Curiosities Room - A sea horse is the name given to small marine fishes . Having a head and neck suggestive of a horse, seahorses also feature segmented bony armour, an upright posture and a curled prehensile tail.
 * Shackles - Ghost Town/Saloon/Illusionist's Room - Shackles are something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms.
 * Shaman's tambourine - Witch's Hut/Forest House - A shaman is a person who interacts with the physical and spiritual world . A tambourine is a small hand drum made by stretching a thin animal skin or parchment over a wooden ring.
 * Shawl - Actress's Room - A shawl is a square, triangular, or oblong piece of wool or other material worn, especially by women, about the shoulders, or the head and shoulders, in place of a coat or hat outdoors, and indoors as protection against chill or dampness.
 * Sheriff's star - Ghost Town - Sheriff's stars are badges, typically star-shaped, as opposed to the more shield-like badges of other law enforcement such as police officers.
 * Ship in a bottle - Ancient Library - A ship in a bottle was an old form of maritime art.
 * Shovel - Haunted Attraction/Polar Station/Mountain Resort - A tool with a handle and a broad scoop or blade for digging and moving material, such as dirt or snow.
 * Shuriken star - Japanese House - A shuriken star is a Japanese throwing weapon .Shuriken are commonly known in the West as throwing stars or ninja stars.
 * Sickle - Mill/Misty Shed/Farm - A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting.
 * Sieve - Bakery/Forest House/Witch's Hut - A sieve is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for characterizing the particle size distribution of a sample, typically using a woven screen such as a mesh or net or metal.
 * Sled - Mountain Resort - A sled is a small steerable one used  for coasting down snow-covered hills.
 * Snowdrops - Wonder Shop - Plant with drooping white flowers and green markings
 * Snow globe - Christmas Eve/Polar Station/Secret Mailroom - A snow globe is a transparent sphere, traditionally made of glass, enclosing a miniaturized scene of some sort, often together with a model of a town, landscape or figure. The sphere also encloses the water in the globe; the water serves as the medium through which the "snow" falls. To activate the snow, the globe is shaken to churn up the white particles.
 * Snowshoe - Polar Station - A snowshoe is footwear for walking over snow. Snowshoes work by distributing the weight of the person over a larger area so that the person's foot does not sink.
 * Sparrow - Actress's Room - Sparrows are small, plump, brown and grey birds with short tails and stubby, powerful beaks.
 * Spatula - Bakery/Tea Corner - A spatula is "a broad, flat, flexible blade used to mix, spread and lift material
 * Spinning top - Nursery/Christmas Eve - A spinning top is a toy designed to spin rapidly on the ground, the motion of which causes it to remain precisely balanced on its tip because of its rotational inertia.
 * Sputnik 1 - Cosmos Hall - Sputnik was an unmanned Soviet satellite that orbited the earth in 1957.
 * Spyglass - Treasure Island/Ancient Library - A spyglass is a hand-held telescope for terrestrial and maritime observation.
 * Starfish - Treasure Island/Ship's Deck/Tropical Evening/Observation Deck - Starfish are marine invertebrates. They typically have a central disc and five arms, though some species have a larger number of arms.
 * Stick horse - Flower Shop - A stick horse is an imitation horse's head on one end of a stick.
 * Stocking - Wonder Shop - A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Christmas Eve so that Santa Claus (or Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives.
 * Straw hat - Garden Tea Party/Mill- A straw hat is a brimmed hat that is woven out of straw or straw-like materials from different plants or synthetics. The hat is designed to protect the head from the sun and against heatstroke, but straw hats are also used in fashion as a decorative element or a uniform.
 * Suitcase - Garden Tea Party/Luxury Express - A suitcase is a form of luggage. It is often a somewhat flat, rectangular-shaped bag with rounded square corners.
 * Swans - Tree of Dates - A swan is a large water bird with a distinctive long neck.
 * Tarot card - Lost Laboratory - The tarot  is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot. In the late 18th century, it began to be used for divination in the form of tarotology and cartomancy.
 * Thermometer / Mountain Resort / A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature gradient.
 * Thunderbird - Wigwam - The thunderbird is a legendary creature in certain North American indigenous peoples' history and culture. It is considered a supernatural being of power and strength.
 * Tiara - Actress's Room - A tiara is a jeweled, ornamental crown traditionally worn by women.
 * Tofu - Tea Corner - Tofu, also known as bean curd, is a food cultivated by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks.
 * Tomahawk - Wigwam/Saloon - A tomahawk is a type of single-handed ax from North America, traditionally resembling a hatchet with a straight shaft.
 * Tomoe - Japanese Shrine - The tomoe is a common design element in Japanese family emblems and corporate logos, particularly in the set of triplicate whorls.
 * Tomtit - Christmas Eve - Also known as a titmouse, it is a small songbird with soft, thick plumage and a short, stout, conical bill.
 * Top hat - Banquet Hall - A top hat is a man's tall hat with a narrow brim
 * Totem - Excavations - A totem is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe.
 * Trowel - Orangery - A trowel is a small hand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material.
 * Tuning fork - Rock Stage - A tuning fork is a fork-shaped acoustic resonator used in many applications to produce a fixed tone.
 * Turban - Heart of the Dunes/Buddha's Square - A turban is a type of headwear based on cloth winding. Featuring many variations, it is worn as customary headwear by men of various countries.
 * Turkish coffee pot - Eastern Bazaar - Also known as a cezve, it is a pot in which to make and serve Turkish coffee (unfiltered coffee); the pot has a long handle and brim spout
 * UFO - Cosmos Hall - An unidentified flying object or "UFO" is an object perceived in the sky that is not readily identified. Most UFOs are later identified as conventional objects or phenomena. The term is widely used for claimed observations of extraterrestrial craft.
 * Umbrella - Chinese Teahouse/Theater/Tropical Evening/Spring Festival/Garden Tea Party/Aviation Museum/Actress's Room - An umbrella  is a folding canopy supported by wooden or metal ribs, which is usually mounted on a wooden, metal, or plastic pole. It is designed to protect a person against rain or sunlight.
 * Ushanka hat - Mountain Resort - Informally known as a "Russian hat", it is a fur cap with ear flaps that can be tied up to the crown of the cap, or fastened at the chin to protect the ears, jaw and lower chin from the cold
 * Vacuum flask - Mountain Resort/Forester's Base/Excavations - A thermos
 * Violin - Captain's Cabin/Wonder Shop/High Tower/Cosmos Hall/Winter Street - The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body.
 * Voodoo doll - Witch's Hut - The term voodoo doll is commonly employed to describe an effigy into which pins are inserted. Although it comes in various different forms, such practices are found in the magical traditions of many cultures across the world.
 * Vinyl record - Luxury Express/Rock Stage/Wonder Shop/Theater - Vinyl records are flat disks made from a petroleum-based plastic that are used to reproduce music.
 * Walkie-talkie - Forester's Base - A walkie-talkie is a communication device that is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver
 * Wand - Illusionist's Room - A wand is a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
 * Watermelon - Haunted Attraction/Amusement Park/Farm/Tropical Evening - A watermelon is a large, roundish  or  elongated  fruit  of  a  trailing  vine of  the  gourd  family,  having  a  hard,  green  rind  and  a  sweet,  juicy, pink  or  red  pulp.
 * Weather vane - Vikings Village/Mill/Spooky Yard - A weather vane, wind vane, or weathercock is an instrument for showing the direction of the wind. It is typically used as an architectural ornament to the highest point of a building
 * Whisk - Bakery - A whisk is a cooking utensil which can be used to blend ingredients smooth or to incorporate air into a mixture. Most whisks consist of a long, narrow handle with a series of wire loops joined at the end
 * Wind chime - Mountain Resort/Observation Deck - Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells or other objects that are often made of metal or wood.
 * Wineskin - Wigwam/Vikings Village/Farm - A bag that is made from the skin of an animal (such as a goat) and that is used for holding wine and other liquids.
 * Witch hat - Haunted Attraction/Witch's Hut/Forest House - A witch hat, in popular culture, is the style of hat characterized by a conical crown and a wide brim.
 * Wreath - Wonder Shop/Mill/Haunted Attraction - A wreath is an assortment of flowers, leaves, fruits, twigs, or various materials that is constructed to resemble a ring. Wreaths are used typically as household ornaments, mainly as an Advent and Christmas decoration.
 * Yin-yang symbol - Japanese House - The yin-yang symbol is most widely applied to the He tu symbol which combines the two interlocking spirals with two dots. In the standard form of the contemporary "yin-yang symbol", one draws on the diameter of a circle two non-overlapping circles each of which has a diameter equal to the radius of the outer circle.
 * Zephyrs - Tree of Dates - A Russian dessert delicacy made of flavoured meringue. Named after a "zephyr", which is a light breeze.
 * Zodiac sign - Banquet Hall - In Western astrology, and formerly astronomy, the zodiac is divided into twelve signs, roughly corresponding to a constellation.
 * Zurna - Eastern Bazaar - A woodwind instrument with eight holes on the front and one thumbhole

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