Hello again, back with another puzzle for you. Today, participants will be going on a trip. I have listed your destinations below, and the order in which you will travel to them. On this trip, the order is very important. Enjoy each city at length. The giveaway link is: http://bit.ly/??????, where each "?" can be found in the destinations listed below. This puzzle will be open for four days. Thanks, good luck, and enjoy!


42° 19′ 53″ N, 83° 2′ 45″ W

37° 48′ 16″ N, 122° 16′ 15″ W

38° 37′ 38″ N, 90° 11′ 52″ W

35° 13′ 37″ N, 80° 50′ 36″ W

39° 46′ 5.88″ N, 86° 9′ 29.52″ W

30° 27′ 29″ N 91° 8′ 25″ W


Giveaway: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/rf5kr

Bitly: http://bit.ly/DaLraR

The intention was to use the first letter from the name of the first city, second letter from the name of the second city, third letter from the name of the third city, etc. Case mattered, which is what St. Louis and Baton Rouge were included in the middle and end.

Hints:

  • "The order is very important," which should sound odd, because the clues to the hidden digits are usually already in order.
  • "Enjoy each location at length," as in "the entire word," or "beyond the first digit."
  • "19,770,609,664 permutations." This one was a bit tougher, but was a response to claims that there were XYZ number of possible URLs. 52^6 = 19,770,609,664, so there are both capital and lowercase digits, but no numbers. I'm told this was too hard and I'll remember that for next time.

I had planned to give more hints, but people were solving it quickly enough, and I had planned for around two dozen or so entries.


Thanks for all those who participated. There will be more puzzles in the future. See you!

13 years ago*

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Nice one. Didn't really try to solve the puzzle and would probably not have managed it anyways, due to the lack of hints (the given ones are not really helpful, imho). It's funny, though, that the permutation part seemed so difficult. It was the only thing I got right :>

13 years ago
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