Eleventh Floor: An Implausible Price Tag Becomes Mile 89
A number that makes little sense as a price functions as the mile value.
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Numerical / Mathematical
Eighth Floor: Hopscotch Rocks Encode 95
Rocks positioned on the 9 and 5 squares of a hopscotch board supply I-95.
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Chicago: Turning Verse Numbers into Last-Mile Measurement
Numeric language in the verse participates in narrowing the final area.
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How Coordinate-Like Numbers in The Secret Paintings Narrow Geography
Several paintings contain numbers interpreted as latitude/longitude components.
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Stage Four: Using Jewish Gematria to Turn 70 into “Eye”
The value 70 is entered into a Jewish Gematria framework to obtain Ayin, associated with eye.
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Stage Four: Adding Numbers from Earlier References to Reach 70
Numbers derived from the clue chain are combined arithmetically.
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Stage One: How ISIS Became 1515
The first answer is a numeric transformation associated with Isis.
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Tenth Floor: Reading 3-0-7 from Legs
Counts of legs on three depicted objects form the mile value 307.
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Tenth Floor: Adding Visible Numbers to Reach I-75
Numbers 24, 25 and 26 are combined to make 75.
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Fifth Floor: Using a Magic Square to Identify a State
A magic-square result points to the 21st state, Illinois.
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Second Floor: Why an Impossible Time Can Be a Mile Marker
An unusual displayed time of 1:80 points to mile 180.
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First Floor: Reading a Newspaper Date as Interstate 81
A newspaper date visually contains the digits needed for I-81.
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How Number Strings Controlled the Mysterious Stranger Word Transformation
Number strings on the final page supply the grouping pattern used in the reduction.
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How Counting Toes and Other Features Became Letters in Mysterious Stranger
Some visual codes required counting repeated physical features.
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Island Mystery: Recognizing a Mountain Height as a Clue
A number in the verse corresponds to the height of Snaefell.
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How a Magic Square Supplied an Extraction Order in Masquerade
A numbered magic square supplies an order that is reused against another grid.
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