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kdkaboom55
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #75 on: Mar 28th, 2003, 10:31pm » |
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Question for James: when you tell us to think of a trick which can be used to condense an entire street address into a single letter, can we assume that the encoding procedure could work with [i][/i]any street address? or only those which are, as you said, as short as this one is? By now I'm convinced that the address is a single number, but I can't figure out the street name.
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James Fingas
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #76 on: Mar 31st, 2003, 1:36pm » |
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The "encoding procedure" I chose can only be used with a few special addresses. I had a choice between "S" and one other possibility that had two letters. But I wanted to make it difficult, so I used "S".
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April Underwood
1st letterof Street
Andover
England?
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btiboy
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Instead of reading it as "1st letter of Street", could you read it as "1 Letter of Street", to give:
April Underwood
1 Letterof Street
Andover England
This eliminates one canonization... 
This method would allow a lot more encoding possibilities, as well. For example, "BEAR" = "4 Lettersof Blvd", etc.
Hmm, and to read the entire original puzzle, would it then be "April under Wood by one letter of street and over England" to give (after adding an extra "by"):
April Underwoodby
1 Letterof Street
Andover England
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Going with the clue that the street address could be given with two letters, the "S" might be a "u" and an "n" stuck together (with the "u" on the top) and on its side, making it look like an S.
Then, finding the number values of u(21) and n(14), one might be able to conclude that the street address is 2114.
To find the name of the (street, road, court, etc..) the "u" and "n" could be formed to words or mean the abbreviation of union, but my brain hasn't traveled that far.
April Underwood,
2114 _____
Andover, England
Yeh, never know.. ^^
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #80 on: May 26th, 2003, 6:41pm » |
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Quote:April Underwoodby
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We do, at least, know that the lady's name is April Underwood, since James (who should know, after all) has since posted riddles featuring her by that name.
And since the riddle was presented to us using standard characters, rather than an image, I don't think that we should assume any non-standard way of drawing characters.
And now that I've so helpfully pointed out what we shouldn't do, someone else can say what we should  .
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #81 on: Jun 1st, 2003, 9:14pm » |
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Well, "S" could be '6 Third Row' .... cause S is the symbol for sulphur, which appears 6 over in the third row of the periodic table.
But this doesn't fit with James' clue that he had options of a single letter 'S' or a double letter.
Anyway, just thought we might look at 'S' as a symbol, (such as stock symbol for Sears), rather than simply a letter.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #82 on: Jun 2nd, 2003, 3:52pm » |
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How abt,
April Underwood
1 invisible street South
Andover
England
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #83 on: Jul 6th, 2003, 7:00pm » |
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James Fingas:
Why is there no correct answer to this question?
-- That's what I'd like to know 
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #84 on: Jul 6th, 2003, 7:07pm » |
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Singletter Street??
Did anyone suggest Short Street?
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #85 on: Jul 6th, 2003, 9:17pm » |
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Throw him to the lions...
April Underwood
Stadium
Andover
England
Stadium, as in S, and as in the Webding for capital S.
I tried to cut and paste it, but no luck.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #86 on: Jul 6th, 2003, 9:49pm » |
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Okay
April Underwood
The area under the curve
Andover
England
As in S meaning an integral. I guess you can also measure other areas and volumes and whatever by using integration, but I can't. So some other phrase may develop from this that I wouldn't be able to imagine.
I also like to use the term curve, as James might have pointed us in that direction a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #87 on: Jul 7th, 2003, 1:55am » |
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Just a different idea. As S is spelled "ess" then we might use that.
April Underwood
East S South
Andover
England
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How about
April Underwood
1 6th Street
Andover
England
beause the letter S is "one sixth" of the word Street?
Mind you, I live not far from Andover and I'm pretty sure there's no "6th Street" there... not very English
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Forgot to add that if James had wanted to use two letters he could have said
ST (One Third Street)
or even AV (One Third Avenue)
A (One Sixth Avenue) is another possibility...
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #90 on: Aug 13th, 2003, 1:38pm » |
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Give the man a cigar!!!
Great work PaulH!
Yeah, I know it's not very English, but I didn't put nearly as much time into making the riddle as people have into solving it ... and even when I went on MapQuest (a long time after posting the riddle) to see if there was a better street I could use, I couldn't find anything better.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #91 on: Aug 13th, 2003, 1:49pm » |
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well, thank god that's over!
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #93 on: Aug 13th, 2003, 5:52pm » |
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Here here, huzza huzza
Nice answer.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #94 on: Aug 14th, 2003, 2:18am » |
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I'm a little sad it's gone though.
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Re: Cryptic Address
« Reply #95 on: Aug 14th, 2003, 4:16am » |
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Well, yes, it is a little sad. But we can take pleasure in the fact that we were involved in solving it.
Or at least in trying to do so.
Well done, PaulH.
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