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Munchkin
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well, i don't really think the "CR" is justified either. afterall how many people will read an address on an envelope and say "CR" when the address start a new line?
I'm thinking it maybe "1 Short Street". or something to do with the fact that S is the first letter of "street"... then the "street" part might be justified...
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Dan Elliott
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Since South is a direction or 'Way', could the answer
have something to do with that? 1 South Way or
1 compass way or something similiar. Are there any
other street designation (Way, Lane, Street) that have
a double meaning that could be applied to the problem?
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James Fingas
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #52 on: Jan 20th, 2003, 11:14am » |
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One of those answers hit rather close to home ... Keep up the good work!
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April Underwood
1 Blank S
Andover
England
Sort of a rework of a previous guess. The S would have to be assumed to mean Street.
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Munchkin
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ooo... i know!
S is the first letter of Street right...1 st letter of street
now st can also stands for saint....
i need a St "Letter of"  (or some other saint that sounds like "Letter of"?)
so it'd be something like
1 St. Letterof Street? (assuming there's is a St Letterof?  )
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #55 on: Jan 20th, 2003, 3:56pm » |
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Munchkin,
when I read your "ooo I know" I almost fell off my chair, I thought you really knew.
How about
April Underwood
South End-of-the-line
Andover
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #56 on: Jan 20th, 2003, 4:19pm » |
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April Underwood
19th Let
Andover
England
Let is a term used in the UK to indicate an apartment.
James, are you out there?
I guess you might also say Let 19.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #57 on: Jan 20th, 2003, 4:33pm » |
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Okay, I know this is the third post in a row, but no one else is awake. So definitively, the answer must be, I hope.
April Underwood
Let 19
Andover
England
Let meaning apartment and letter.
Now, I am going back to work.
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Munchkin
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speaker: well i was honestly hoping that could be a starting point for an answer. seeing it actually justifies the "street" part. Although i must admit making up a saint to solve to the puzzle is getting a wee bit desperate. (but hey! this riddle has been the curse of me for the last few weeks! THAT'S when I can't stand this any longer and start posting. )
hmm... I'm not too sure how the appartments are named in Andover... but I got a feeling that there's more than one street with appartments... 19th Let or Let 19 won't go too far.. would it?
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #59 on: Jan 20th, 2003, 5:19pm » |
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Munchkin
You may be right, there may be something more. But, at least with my answer we only need James to confirm it. Your answer requires the Pope to grant sainthood on this letterof guy and then the municiple government in Andover to name a street after him. 
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #60 on: Jan 20th, 2003, 8:14pm » |
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There is one S on the right: One Right S. Abbreviation for right is Rt. which is also the abbreviation for Route, so the street address is "One Rt. S" or
One Route S
The S is also "high" since it is on the top line, and it is "way" over on the right. So there is one high way right S:
One Highway Route S
Just like Avenues, as explained previously, routes can be labelled with letters just as they can with numbers.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #61 on: Jan 21st, 2003, 2:13am » |
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Pretty much a rehash of what's been said before, but with alternative explanations:
Although streets are normally named rather than numbered in the UK, S could be read as "1st [letter of] Street", and for the number (a bit more tenuous), we could run-length encode " " as "1 ". Then ", S" becomes ", 1 1st Street".
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #62 on: Jan 21st, 2003, 4:43am » |
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1st of Word Street ?
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #63 on: Jan 21st, 2003, 12:09pm » |
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I've been trying to think up a riddle that means "close, but no cigar", and I can't. Oh well--looks like you already have enough to figure out 
I honestly didn't know that "Let" was used to indicate an apartment. So that's not the answer. Pretty good, though.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #64 on: Jan 21st, 2003, 9:37pm » |
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Well Munchkin you were right.
And for anyone curious, you can find let in the dictionary as probably the second meaning of the noun form of the word.
James
I will keep trying. And, just because you were wondering:
What did the fat-cat banker have in his suitcase after being stopped at customs upon his arrival home from his trip to Cuba?
Hint: The banker has a slight lisp, or somebody has a lisp.
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Munchkin
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LOL @speaker's riddle
quick recap:
the position of S with respect to the rest of the address has nothing to do with the street address. and the proper answer will justify the street type.
problem is when james said it's getting close he didn't say which one so what happens is i get all confused 
the two "street type" that has been "justified" so far is "street" and "way".
'S' has been guessed as short for "street", "south", or being the 19th letter.
and james said we got everything to solve this puzzle....
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write a program to put together all the possible combination and print it out to see what gives us the "aha!" answer?
there's a few thoeries of mine, which are all things like 1 Abbreviated Street or 1 Shorthand Street. but it doesn't really "flow"...
any break through guys?
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Rob L
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Other guesses for street address:
1 Ess end
1 Commerce end
1 double crescent
1 Woodcut street
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April Underwood
1 South End
Andover
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #68 on: Jan 22nd, 2003, 1:47pm » |
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The reason that "the" solution is difficult to figure out is that there is no clue to work backwards from. To put it schematically:
<street address> --> [encoding procedure] --> <encoded address>
The problem is that the encoded address doesn't give you any clue as to the encoding procedure. It can't, because it's so short. Maybe you will have to think of the question from the other direction. What sort of trick would you use to collapse a full street address into a single letter?
But you are already thinking about the question in this way, and I can't think of any way to help without giving the solution away. I guess this post is useless 
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Munchkin
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James, juts one more question (for now anyway )
Would the street address itself give us the encoding procedure (so to speak?) What I guess I wanted to know is that whether there is some sorta of external information that we need... from the look of it it doesn't.
I'm guessing the street name can somehow be interpret as the letter "S"... Does it matter whether it's in capital or lower case? (getting desperate here... )
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #70 on: Jan 22nd, 2003, 7:00pm » |
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I like the post by Deepan.
1 South End
Except for the "1" it seems to make sense and sounds quite British.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #71 on: Jan 23rd, 2003, 9:03am » |
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Munchkin,
Yes, the address does give you the encoding procedure, just like "1 st. letterof street" gives you the encoding procedure.
Speaker,
The street address doesn't sound particularly British. Maybe I should have picked a different country...
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #72 on: Jan 23rd, 2003, 3:28pm » |
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James, thanks for the clues, if I understand correctly, we need to do a little reverse engineering. QED not.
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qwerty
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How about...
April Underwood
B4 Capital S. (before capital s?)
Andover
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Phil
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How about:
April Underwood
1 Woodby Forest Lane (before S lain)
Andover, England
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