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Message 1147480 - Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 14:03:29 UTC

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Message 1147481 - Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 14:04:04 UTC

Since Chris got 8 first I'll drop to seven
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Message 1147598 - Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 18:48:06 UTC

I'd say 10
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Message 1147649 - Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 20:49:39 UTC - in response to Message 1147476.  

Ok you had one address till you went to college, then you had an addy for the army, an addy for first married, two more after that and the one you are at now. So you have had seven to nine addresses. I bet nine.

Basement, who needs a basement?

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Message 1147665 - Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 21:13:19 UTC

Hmm, my guess is five.
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Message 1147679 - Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 21:43:03 UTC
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OK, no point in keeping everyone in suspense any longer. The count is 11, and Angela is our winner (I promise there was no fix).

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4 before I left for college, 3 in college, and 4 since.


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Message 1147816 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 4:35:47 UTC

Oh my, lucky me!

Ok, how many steps to do we have on our property - inside and outside, total. One guess per player, please.
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Message 1147818 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 4:42:21 UTC - in response to Message 1147816.  

Oh my, lucky me!

Ok, how many steps to do we have on our property - inside and outside, total. One guess per player, please.

She will globber me, 18 is kind of a lucky number for me and the winning number is higher.
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Message 1147830 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 6:10:02 UTC - in response to Message 1147816.  

OK, I was able to count 11 right off. So it only makes since that it would be the same number of steps to get in the front door as it takes to get out the back. So my guess is 32 outside of the house and inside as well. I assume you have a basement. (No, I hope you have a basement.)

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Message 1147896 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 13:03:30 UTC

56 steps.
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Message 1147936 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 15:57:57 UTC

69?
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Message 1147946 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 16:27:54 UTC

Ok we have five guesses so far.

Scarecrow (...everyone's favorite one trick pony, nice graphic though...) - 69
James - 56
Celt Tooth - 32
John - 23
Ulibelle - 18

Hint - some of you are closer than others!

Better Hint - throw out the outlying data points
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Message 1147981 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 18:26:20 UTC

You're in/near Berkeley so there might be a hill involved, and probably a basement.
Nice round figure - 40.
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Message 1148039 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 21:33:45 UTC

Lets try 30

And that isn't counting the step from the roadway to the sidewalk.

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Message 1148043 - Posted: 1 Sep 2011, 21:42:42 UTC

Scarecrow - 69
James - 56
Rob - 40
Celt Tooth - 32
Gary - 30
Chris - 27
John - 23
Ulibelle - 18

I will let at least 24 hours from the first post pass before I declare a winner. One guess is quite close, but no one has guessed exactly yet.

Perhaps a few new people will play before the evening is up here in the VERY HILLY San Francisco East Bay. If not, I will award the win to the closest guesser.
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Message 1148143 - Posted: 2 Sep 2011, 7:36:16 UTC

Ok, the answer is 45. (46 if you count the step up from the street to the sidewalk.)

Our winner is Rob Smith with a very close guess of 40! PM going out to our winner now...
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Message 1148181 - Posted: 2 Sep 2011, 11:39:05 UTC

Thanks Angie,
OK, nothing to do with steps, stairs or anything like that.
During their married life my parents owned in two houses.
The two house numbers are related to each other by the digit "2", but that digit is not in either number. The house second number is greater than the first, what was it?





(Dad died a few years back while still resident, with Mum, in the second house, but that's irrelevant to the question)
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Message 1148216 - Posted: 2 Sep 2011, 14:02:26 UTC

I will say the first house was 50 and the second was 100.
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Message 1148248 - Posted: 2 Sep 2011, 15:39:03 UTC

Chris is wrong, as is stated in the description the digit "2" does not appear in either number.
James has got the hang of it, but not the right answer...
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