Well, I replied to the other before reading this. Which word got omitted? Island? That wasn't a problem for me, but what about the ORE issue?!! :)

> I got a wonderful note from aT about my Tin Tin clues and knew I
> needed to do some investigating because too many people were getting
> confused on Box 2. As it turns out, the concave/convex thing was
> getting unnecessarily hard due to my ommission of one word. If you
> are the type who prints out clues when they are first posted (Lea? da
> Kool Kats?) then you will want to recycle those and reprint the new
> ones before you go. I also added a few more hints.
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> My apologies to any and all who got confused and hopefully everyone
> will be successful. It is interesting to note that there is an
> exhibit in the Exploratorium exactly about the imprecision of
> languange descriptions...actually not the language's fault, but our
> imprecise use of language to describe things. Two people sit across
> from each other at a table with a vertical divider between them. Each
> person has the identical tray and a series of colored shapes to
> arrange within the tray. One person takes a turn designing an
> arrangement and then tries to describe it to the other person who then
> tries to recreate it. Once finished you can check how well you did.
> IT is harder than it sounds, and basically is the letterbox clue
> writing experience in a nutshell. But then there are those who
> deliberately try to obfuscate....and I like that too, infinitely more
> challenging and memorable.
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> Anyway, in my mind I was thinking Alcatraz Island, and only mentioned
> Alcatraz in the clue, which most people would construe as Alcatraz
> prison and then the die is cast for confusion.
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> Happy ending: aT found all the boxes.
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