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TLC

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:29 am    Post subject: What kind of puzzle is this Reply with quote

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evert

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where did you find it?
Was it accompanied by any explanation?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, that wasn't so hard. Smile

Hint: Open up your favourite text editor and start playing around.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vidarino wrote:
Hey, that wasn't so hard. Smile

Hint: Open up your favourite text editor and start playing around.



What type of puzzle is this. I guess it's over my head as I have no clue what to do with it.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Figuring out what kind of puzzle it is *is* the puzzle, I think. Wink

Paste the text into an editor of some kind (and make sure you use a monospaced font, like Courier) and merge the first three lines into one long one. Repeat for the next three. And the next...

(Not 100% accurate, but it should be enough to reveal what needs to be done.)
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pasting it into MS Word, Changing the font into Courier, replacing all paragraph marks with "nothing", Change layout to landscape, put the font to 8 or 9

Start fiddling with the margins until you get a clear view...

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PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2006 12:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks to all that helped w/ this. I still don't know what type of puzzle it is, but I did get the solution. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe I'm just slow...but I tried all the "paste into text editor" descriptions of how to solve it but I didn't notice anything.

Is there something obvious I'm just not getting or...

--John
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PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks to all who responded to this. I got it and finished the cache.
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