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Are the town/city and country real places, or just made-up real sounding places? I think I've got the name, but if the town is real it would narrow things down a lot...

The city and country are real places. I'll give away a freebie here and say that the country is England. I'm guessing that was pretty obvious. The city in the address does really exist in England, however no knowledge of England is needed to solve this puzzle. But if looking at a map to see city names sparks some thoughts, that's fine.

I have no idea if the street address and name exist, however.


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How about this?

Amy Woods
19 Mood Way
Brentwood,
England

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zzyzx wrote:
Amy Woods
19 Mood Way
Brentwood,
England

You got the country right, but nothing else.

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zzyxx, can you tell us how you got that? Even if it's wrong, it might help the rest of us in solving it.

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I can take a guess how he got most of it:

Amy Woods - Anagrammed May and added the first line
19 Mood Way - 'S' is the 19th letter. Mood Way - swapped first letters in Wood May
Brentwood - I'm going to have to guess he looked at a map and picked a town that had "wood" in it.
England - Well... duh.

But again, let me stress that England is the *only* part of that that is correct.


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I think I have everything except for the street address - that is, name and city. Just to help me check - is the comma particularly significant?

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krammer wrote:
I think I have everything except for the street address - that is, name and city. Just to help me check - is the comma particularly significant?

Hmmm... I guess I would have to say the comma is the least significant thing.

If you want, you can PM me your answer so far and I can tell you if it's right or wrong.

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I can take a guess how he got most of it:

Amy Woods - Anagrammed May and added the first line
19 Mood Way - 'S' is the 19th letter. Mood Way - swapped first letters in Wood May
Brentwood - I'm going to have to guess he looked at a map and picked a town that had "wood" in it.
England - Well... duh.

But again, let me stress that England is the *only* part of that that is correct.

Heh, I have no clue... Just threw it out there. I have spent way too much time staring at these three lines!

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Heh, I have no clue... Just threw it out there. I have spent way too much time staring at these three lines!

If I sounded bad there, sorry - I just wanted to make sure it was clear that the thought process used there wasn't leading to the right answers, so just making derivitive changes wouldn't really help.

I'll give a bit of a hint: zzyzx used somewhat arbitrary logic - for instance, the name "Amy Woods" came from anagramming the second line and combining it with the first line, ignoring the comma and the fact that the S is capital. If you needed to do that to solve this, there would be some sort of hint that you had to do that. There's not any arbitrary logic behind this one - everything is where it is for a reason.


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If I sounded bad there, sorry - I just wanted to make sure it was clear that the thought process used there wasn't leading to the right answers, so just making derivitive changes wouldn't really help.

You didn't, no worries. I got England though! Oh wait, that was already a given...

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I've seen an address like this before. It was a rebus:

HILL
JOHN
MASS

and the answer was

I've got a feeling this is along the same lines, although I still don't know the answer.

[Edited by masonjason on 04-09-2004 at 01:19 PM GMT: saw Bandit's post lower down, made me remember]

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Here's a crazy attempt:

Grace Ironwood
Logress
St. Anne's
England


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Koro wrote:
Here's a crazy attempt:

Grace Ironwood
Logress
St. Anne's
England

Well, you did get England right.

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I might have the name and city, but I don't have another puzzle so I'll post these here in case they inspire someone else..

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I might have the name and city, but I don't have another puzzle so I'll post these here in case they inspire someone else..

Click here to view the secret text

×I think a few people have guessed "May Underwood". Is the city Sunderland?

You do have the name, but not the city. The street address is still missing as well.


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Is the street address



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I'm not sure about the "s", but I think the rest might be,

May Underwood
Andover
England

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I'm not sure about the "s", but I think the rest might be,

May Underwood
Andover
England

This is correct. Now just to figure out the number and street.
(agaricus - no, it's not Wood St.)

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1 Comma Street? (he asked, clutching at straws)

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Now if I say that was what I was thinking, then nobody is going to believe me, right?

Actually I was convinced it was hence my question about the comma, but then there would be nothing left for the street bit...

How about 1 Blank Row for the street address?

[Edited by krammer on 04-09-2004 at 02:31 PM GMT]

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1 Comma Street? (he asked, clutching at straws)

How about 1 Blank Row for the street address?

No, and no. Not bad guesses, but there's not a blank row unless you're looking above or below the entire address, which would be a bit dodgy. 1 Comma Street isn't bad either, but why would "S" mean street? That wouldn't quite fit with the rest of the puzzle.

If I change that "S" to "St", the answer would be different. Actually, I'd probably accept two different answers if I changed it to "St".

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1 Comma Street? (he asked, clutching at straws)

1 Comma Street isn't bad either, but why would "S" mean street?

It wouldn't, which is why I said I was clutching at straws.

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[Edited by DiMono on 04-09-2004 at 06:49 PM GMT]

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A comma is often called a "tick", and the S almost certainly indicates South... could it be "1 South Aftertick?"

Nope. And don't be so certain about South.

I'll restate it - the comma is really just there to separate things. The entirity of what's missing still is encoded in "S".


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I don't really have any idea about the street name, but I'll guess that the house number is 4. So the whole thing becomes:

"Amy" under "Wood" 'fore "..." and over "England".

Then you have to mention the "S" in a certain way to get the street name, possibly using some synonym of "capital" and/or "lone".

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I don't really have any idea about the street name, but I'll guess that the house number is 4. So the whole thing becomes:

"Amy" under "Wood" 'fore "..." and over "England".

Then you have to mention the "S" in a certain way to get the street name, possibly using some synonym of "capital" and/or "lone".

Not a bad guess, but that's not right either.

All by itself, "S" gives the number and full street name.

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That's some damn good compression!

Wild guess: 19, Nineteenth Street. I am pretty sure that this is not correct.

[Edited by masonjason on 04-09-2004 at 08:55 PM GMT]

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masonjason wrote:
That's some damn good compression!

Wild guess: 19, Nineteenth Street. I am pretty sure that this is not correct.

You're correct, that's not correct.
Although I will say you have one of the three components correct.


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19 South Postwood?

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19 South Postwood?

Zero of three. And with that, I will probably stop giving X/Y correct hints.


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