I concur with Morrigan. Total buffoonery on the part of the author. Maybe we should wait until Tuesday to work on Friday's clues.
I concur with Morrigan. Total buffoonery on the part of the author. Maybe we should wait until Tuesday to work on Friday's clues.
I am most interested to see how they propose we get all letters A to Z mapped (26 of them) to the numbers 1 to 20 without throwing any out (since all are used) and without doubling up any of them or their respective keys. There must be some devious lateral thinking solution to this chapter.
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Lobster I don't think all letters are used, I think you are misinterpreting that clue. remember, "21 to 26 still need to go home", meaning throw them out.
That clue unfortunately depends on the temporal state of a fictitious baseball game (is the game over or not), which makes it indeterminate. Combining it with other clues in an attempt to disambiguate leads me into a set of paradoxes that results in no logical conclusion.
One thing I learned with this book is not to read into the clues so much. I try to think of the simplest, most straightforward answer. With chapter 2 and 3 I came up with so many extremely logical answers (map answers) and was still wrong.
I believe he is just saying not to used the letters U through Z. He had similar clues in other chapters. This conflicts with the "You will need to use every letter to solve this one." clue, but only if you interpret "every" as referring to every letter of the alphabet. I believe it has a different meaning.
I have my theories, but I hope Ron releases the first key (or any key for that matter). I have too many possible starting points. a key would at least give some direction to our search
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