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Why did no one guess "yurt" (with smoke coming out the chimney)?

Pictures of yurts here, first one with a chimney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt

It isn't a yurt. It doesn't look even remotely like a yurt, even a yurt with a chimney. It's obviously meant to be an axe. It has a clearly depicted edge and the 'smoke' would need to be be coming out of the side at a really weird angle. It doesn't even have a door.

100% yurt. Yurts in cold climates is a thing. Sometimes they just have a smoke hole in the roof instead of a chimney. All the pictures are at weird angles, they're printed on a ball! :-)

https://www.google.com/search?q=yurt+smoke&sca_esv=599339112...

The geometry of the ball isn't relevant - the "smoke" as depicted is going out of the side of the "yurt" at a right angle and continuing in that direction. That's not how smoke works. And the "yurt" itself is clearly depicted as a wedge. With the "smoke" attached to it as a cylinder.

If it's supposed to be a yurt, one has to ask why someone went through obvious effort to make a yurt look as much like an axe as possible.

Here's one from the inside with a wood stove, thanks airbnb:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/17261315?adults=1&children=0&in...

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