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Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 5:54 pm
by Animal
Burn1dwn wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 5:53 pmCopper Harbor
nope.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 6:25 pm
by Antknot
Palo Alto (spelling?)

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 7:15 pm
by Burn1dwn
Antknot wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 6:25 pm Palo Alto (spelling?)
I was thinking that too or something in Silicon Valley but the populations are too large.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 8:49 pm
by Animal
Burn1dwn wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 7:15 pm
Antknot wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 6:25 pm Palo Alto (spelling?)
I was thinking that too or something in Silicon Valley but the populations are too large.
There are exactly 5 clues within the story that will be used to locate the town. The first clue is in the second sentence. The clues must be combined to solve it, no clue by itself will be any value.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:10 am
by QillerDaemon
Obviously we're not very good at this.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:20 am
by Antknot
QillerDaemon wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:10 am Obviously we're not very good at this.
Or the clues aren’t.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 12:27 pm
by Animal
expand your thinking a little. Remember that the 5 clues must be kept in the order they appear in the story in order to locate the town.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 12:57 pm
by Animal
and no clue by itself, or without the other 4, would be of any help.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 1:08 pm
by Ricrude
Los Alamos

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 1:08 pm
by Ricrude
Marfa TX

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 1:08 pm
by Ricrude
Bisbee AZ

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 1:11 pm
by Ricrude
Fairfield IA

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 1:50 pm
by nerd_alert
Animal wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 4:43 pm Clues:
1. The town's name is not in the story.
2. Handful of clues in the story.
3. Clues are in sequence to solve the town's name.
4. Town's name has two words.
5. The town has a population less than 10,000.
6. The clues are in the words in the story, not the story itself.
7. The first sentence does not have a clue in it.
8. Once you know the name of the town, you can figure out the clues. ;-D

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:02 pm
by Animal
none of the above guesses are correct. Start putting the clues you are using to make your guess rather than just trying to name the town.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:08 pm
by Animal
9. What 5 things could i give you that if you put them in order would locate a town in the United States? Start by trying to figure that one out.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:15 pm
by CHEEZY17
I googled "towns with two-word names with under 10,000 people" in hopes that might help.
There are over 15,000.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:20 pm
by Animal
CHEEZY17 wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:15 pm I googled "towns with two-word names with under 10,000 people" in hopes that might help.
There are over 15,000.
that's why there are clues in the story that you can use to locate the exact town.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:23 pm
by nerd_alert
Animal wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:08 pm 9. What 5 things could i give you that if you put them in order would locate a town in the United States? Start by trying to figure that one out.
Currently working on the theory that 16 refers to the 16th state, Tennessee

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:24 pm
by Animal
nerd_alert wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:23 pm
Animal wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:08 pm 9. What 5 things could i give you that if you put them in order would locate a town in the United States? Start by trying to figure that one out.
Currently working on the theory that 16 refers to the 16th state, Tennessee
no. But there is an angle to this logic that does apply to solving this.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:39 pm
by Animal
The great global misevent, an economic collapse that had shifted the world’s priorities, had left her generation with a deep, collective ache for things that felt truly real.

Her latest creation was a large, intricate artwork made from salvaged circuit boards and wires.

It was a piece she had been working on since she was sixteen, a complex mosaic of forgotten tech.

"It's so... slow," he said, his words delivered with a vocal threep—a common verbal tic of their generation.

Jax, like most of their peers, was completely conditioned by the instant gratification of the data stream.

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The five clues are in these five sentences. Taken out of the story in order.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 5:44 pm
by Ricrude
Santa Clara NM

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 5:54 pm
by Animal
Ricrude wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 5:44 pm Santa Clara NM
nope

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:34 pm
by nerd_alert
Trying to determine if there is a zip code embedded in these lines in some fashion....

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:42 pm
by WarmBidetWater
nerd_alert wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:34 pm Trying to determine if there is a zip code embedded in these lines in some fashion....
He already said they are "words" in the sentences. I assume he meant literal words with no embedded meaning.

Re: I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 9:15 pm
by nerd_alert
WarmBidetWater wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:42 pm
nerd_alert wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:34 pm Trying to determine if there is a zip code embedded in these lines in some fashion....
He already said they are "words" in the sentences. I assume he meant literal words with no embedded meaning.
Well, sixteen is a word, "three"p is a word. I wondered if there could be a zip code with the numbers 163 in it.