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Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

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Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: ephemeralletterboxer (ephemeralletterboxer@yahoo.com) | Date: 2006-06-17 15:38:39 UTC
This mail is being sent as part of an ongoing game of Twenty
Questions which has the purpose of determining the clues for the
Twenty Questions Letterbox. For more details see:

http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.php?
boxnum=22779&boxname=Twenty_Questions

Visited the box this morning. No finders yet. Heh, heh.

There is one additional clue that I have intended to give all along,
but held back until things were narrowed down into New England. The
box is five feet from the end of a stone wall under (actually) three
relatively flat rocks. That's the last clue that will be provided,
except of course for the remaining YES and NO answers. Good luck.

9 questions remain. Questions answered so far:

Question 1: Is it East of 87 degrees West (This is a longitude line
just East of Chicago)?
Answer 1: Yes.

Question 2: Is it South of the Mason Dixon Line (Pennsylvania -
Maryland border)?
Answer 2: No.

Question 3: Is the box located in New England (Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut)?
Answer 3: Yes.

Question 4: Is the letterbox located in Southern New England
(Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut)?
Answer 4: Yes.

Question 5: Does the state where the box is located share a border
with New York?
Answer 5: Yes.

Question 6: Is it on the Appalachian trail?
Answer 6: No.

Question 7: Is the box in Massachusetts?
Answer 7: Yes.

Question 8: Is the box planted in one of the following counties:
Berkshire, Dukes, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Nantucket, Suffolk or
Norfolk?
Answer 8: No.

Question 9: Is it located within Essex, Middlesex or Worcester
Counties?
Answer 9: Yes.

Question 10: Is the box in Worcester County?
Answer 10: No.

Question 11: Is it located in either Boxborough, Gloucester, a city
or town that forms the border between Middlesex and Essex Counties,
or a city or town that borders New Hampshire?
Answer 11: No.

Now accepting candidates for Question 12. Fire away. Please send
your questions as described in the original instructions.

Sincerely,
The Ephemeral Letterboxer






RE: [LbNA] Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: Gretchen Caldwell (boston.rott@verizon.net) | Date: 2006-06-17 13:36:34 UTC-04:00
Ok, so this rules out:



Boxborough

Gloucester



RE: [LbNA] Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: Tattoo (nancyanna4200@yahoo.com) | Date: 2006-06-17 11:30:11 UTC-07:00
What towns or cities does this leave?

Gretchen Caldwell wrote: Ok, so this rules out:

Boxborough

Gloucester

RE: [LbNA] Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: ruhlette (ruhlette@yahoo.com) | Date: 2006-06-17 11:50:05 UTC-07:00
I was thinking the next question might be .. Is it located north of 128
and east of I-93?

speedsquare

--- Tattoo wrote:

> What towns or cities does this leave?
>
> Gretchen Caldwell wrote: Ok, so this
> rules out:
>
> Boxborough
>
> Gloucester
>
> From Middlesex NH borders:
>
> Ashby
>
> Townsend
>
> Pepperrell
>
> Dunstable
>
> Tyngsborough
>
> Dracut
>
> From Essex NH borders:
>
> Methuen
>
> Haverhill
>
> Merrimac
>
> Amesbury
>
> Salisbury
>
> From the M/E border:
>
> Andover
>
> Tewksbury
>
> Wilmington
>
> North Reading
>
> Reading
>
> North Andover
>
> Middleton
>
> Peabody
>
> Lynnfield
>
> Saugus
>
> Melrose
>
> Malden
>
> Wakefield
>
> I think my next question will be: is it within the area between Rte 495
> and
> 95?
>
> Boston Rott
>
> _____
>
> Question 11: Is it located in either Boxborough, Gloucester, a city
> or town that forms the border between Middlesex and Essex Counties,
> or a city or town that borders New Hampshire?
> Answer 11: No.
>
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Re: [LbNA] Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: (LundyandVickster@aol.com) | Date: 2006-06-17 14:57:42 UTC-04:00


>In a message dated 6/17/2006 2:30:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>nancyanna4200@yahoo.com writes:

>What towns or cities does this leave?

I placed a JPEG image in the files area of the group that shows which cities
and towns are left. Look in the "Twenty Questions LB Files" folder



Peabody doesn't form the border so the remaining communities are:


Essex County
BEVERLY
Boxford
Danvers
Essex
Georgetown
Groveland
Hamilton
Ipswich
LAWRENCE
LYNN
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Marblehead
Nahant
Newbury
NEWBURYPORT
PEABODY
Rockport
Rowley
SALEM
Swampscott
Topsfield
Wenham
West Newbury
Middlesex County
Acton
Arlington
Ashland
Ayer
Bedford
Belmont
Billerica
Burlington
CAMBRIDGE
Carlisle
Chelmsford
Concord
EVERETT
Framingham
Groton
Holliston
Hopkinton
Hudson
Lexington
Lincoln
Littleton
LOWELL
MARLBOROUGH
Maynard
MEDFORD
Natick
NEWTON
Sherbom
Shirley
SOMERVILLE
Stoneham
Stow
Sudbury
WALTHAM
Watertown
Wayland
Westford
Weston
Winchester
WOBURN

Larry
Lundy and Vickster
North Shore, Massachusetts


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RE: [LbNA] Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: uneksia (uneksia@yahoo.com) | Date: 2006-06-17 15:16:56 UTC-04:00
is there something i am not seeing? how does that eliminate the maine
border?
smile
uneksia


Re: [LbNA] Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: (LundyandVickster@aol.com) | Date: 2006-06-17 15:21:44 UTC-04:00


In a message dated 6/17/2006 3:15:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
uneksia@yahoo.com writes:

is there something i am not seeing? how does that eliminate the maine
border?
smile
uneksia


Re: [LbNA] Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: Jim Plouffe (jimplouffe@comcast.net) | Date: 2006-06-17 16:45:47 UTC-04:00
At this point, I believe we could almost divide it in half by using the
A-L / M-Z question.

That would leave 32 A-L towns/cities and 30 M-Z towns/cities. To make
it even, how about adding one town such as this:

Is the box in either a city or town that begins with the letter A-L or
the community of Woburn?

Ideas? The highway idea works also.

Blax



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Re: Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: Heidi (hgheck@ixpres.com) | Date: 2006-06-18 04:25:05 UTC
Hi all, lucky me just found out about this game...amusing to read
the old posts...very cool idea, so let's find this box!

You've all got a great start. I think we have to nail down the
town, and the eliminate 50% approach using location to major routes
to me sounds most logical.

Ideas once town is known:

*identify if in state park
*distance from local landmarks or natural features (eg is it located
within 5 miles of Town Hall?)
*logical planting locations within town, take a guess

Most interested in this thread...

SapphireBerry
Gardner, MA












Re: [LbNA] Re: Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: (LundyandVickster@aol.com) | Date: 2006-06-18 08:49:56 UTC-04:00
SapphireBerry,

By next Saturday we should have the City or Town nailed. Maybe we can carve
out a little time during the Greek Myth-Story Gathering to share our thoughts
about where in the community is the most likely area(s).

Who know, maybe the Ephemeral Letterboxer will be in attendance.

Larry
Lundy and Vickster
North Shore, Massachusetts


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[LbNA] Re: Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: Heidi (hgheck@ixpres.com) | Date: 2006-06-18 15:08:39 UTC

>This seems a very difficult challenge indeed! Let's hope we can
get the range of towns nailed down to 3 or less by Saturday, as the
questions are winding down...

Looks like we will need a quorum at the Greek Event! ;) Let's
discuss this philosophically 'round the bonfire...maybe we
can "smoke out" our ephemeral letterboxer?

SapphireBerry


> SapphireBerry,
>
> By next Saturday we should have the City or Town nailed. Maybe we
can carve
> out a little time during the Greek Myth-Story Gathering to share
our thoughts
> about where in the community is the most likely area(s).
>
> Who know, maybe the Ephemeral Letterboxer will be in attendance.
>
> Larry
> Lundy and Vickster
> North Shore, Massachusetts
>
>
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>





[LbNA] Re: Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: Heidi (hgheck@ixpres.com) | Date: 2006-06-18 15:10:06 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Heidi" wrote:
> I meant 3 or less locations within a town! ;0

>
> >This seems a very difficult challenge indeed! Let's hope we can
> get the range of towns nailed down to 3 or less by Saturday, as
the
> questions are winding down...
>
> Looks like we will need a quorum at the Greek Event! ;) Let's
> discuss this philosophically 'round the bonfire...maybe we
> can "smoke out" our ephemeral letterboxer?
>
> SapphireBerry
>
>
> > SapphireBerry,
> >
> > By next Saturday we should have the City or Town nailed. Maybe
we
> can carve
> > out a little time during the Greek Myth-Story Gathering to share
> our thoughts
> > about where in the community is the most likely area(s).
> >
> > Who know, maybe the Ephemeral Letterboxer will be in
attendance.
> >
> > Larry
> > Lundy and Vickster
> > North Shore, Massachusetts
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>






Re: [LbNA] Re: Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #11 and a last clue

From: (LetHerBox@aol.com) | Date: 2006-06-18 12:42:07 UTC-04:00
Don't forget cemeteries, especially since New England cemeteries have stone
walls and this box under two flat "stones"...

Mookie


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