Wordlists - Solution
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| Puzzle Location: U.C. Berkeley Tunnel |
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The first insight into solving this puzzle is to recognize that the words should all be taken phonetically (i.e. spoken aloud). Doing so (and slurring them together slightly) produces,
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| TAMIL LIEGE OWN SAND TWILLS MYTH ... HUMMER |
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Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith |
| SICKS TINA UNDER HEADPINS ELFIN YEAH OFTEN NEW ... SICK |
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Sixteen Hundred Pennsylvania Avenue |
| RUSH INNER ME HOOF OTTER BOWLS EVICTS ... STIFF |
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Russian army who fought Bolsheviks |
| AND HER GROWN DEACON EMMY ... EVE |
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underground economy |
| SANE PEAT HEARSE BERGEN HEIGHTS ... OAR |
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St. Petersburg Nights |
| AWK CULT SORE SORRY ... ELSA |
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occult sorcery |
| ELLISON WAND EARL ANDRE BIT ... THAT |
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Alice in Wonderland rabbit |
| SERF ASS ABS SORE BENGAL READY EIGHT SHUN ... VIXEN |
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surface absorbing all radiation |
| DOUGH FORKLIFTS ... CREASED |
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Dover cliffs |
| FAHD CAMEL CANNED CALL LUAU ... TEA |
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vodka, milk, and kahlua |
| YOU'VE EASE HORSE ... TAR |
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UV source |
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The next step is to recognize that each "translation" refers to something involving either black or white.
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| Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith |
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The movie "Men in Black" |
| Sixteen Hundred Pennsylvania Avenue |
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The Whitehouse |
| Russian army who fought Bolsheviks |
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The White Army |
| underground economy |
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Black market |
| St. Petersburg Nights |
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White nights |
| occult sorcery |
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Black magic |
| Alice in Wonderland rabbit |
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White rabbitt |
| surface absorbing all radiation |
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Blackbody |
| Dover cliffs |
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The white cliffs of Dover |
| vodka, milk, and kahlua |
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Black Russian |
| UV source |
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Blacklight |
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If we look at the unused word at the end of each line in order, but only consider the "black" ones, we get
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HUMMER EVE ELSA VIXEN TAR
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This translates to
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Emeryville Civic Center
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Using just the "white" words, we get
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SICK STIFF OAR THAT CREASED TEA
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This translates to
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Sixtyfourth at Christie
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Note that there are two separate locations in the solution. (The Emeryville Civic Center is not at 64th and Christie.) This was done deliberately and managed to fool several teams...
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