10 Clues Puzzle

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Here’s a puzzle to work on… there’s the easy part, which is to find the intended reference for each item listed below. Then, there’s the tough part – figuring out what the hell to do with all those individual answers. The single final answer, of course, will be evident once you have solved both of those parts.

Tropicana’s chicken specialty
City of Five Flags
“Eyes Without a Face” album
Walter’s historic ticket mate
Steve Douglas has got them
Jazz trumpeter known for extended cheeks
Nobelite Kilby’s great advance
For my club, my community, my country, and my world
Denying rumored sale to Disney
Modern phone with array of buttons rather than dial

In all likelihood, you will need some obtuse clues to bring this one home. Here is the first one:

The ten clues above conveniently include a sandwiched pair of secondary clues on how to get started with “part two” of the puzzle.

Good luck.

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Dizzy Gillespie

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#4 is Geraldine, and # 8 is, posibly, 4H.

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"Eyes Without a Face" album: Rebel Yell
Walter’s historic ticket mate: Geraldine Ferraro
Club, community, country, world: Part of the 4-H pledge
Modern phone with buttons: Touch-Tone

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#1 is tic-tac-toe (think Tropicana hotel)

#7 Kilby invented the integrated circuit

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Steve Douglas – three sons

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You guys are on the right track for the most part.

Each answer to the 10 questions will have something very unique and very important in common.

None of the answers given are wrong, per se, but some of them need to be revised.

Completely correct answers:

Tic Tac Toe
Rebel Yell
Touchtone

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FWIW, Pensacola is known as the “City of Five Flags”

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bump

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Okay – the answers LifeIllustrator has confirmed are all nine letters.
Tropicana’s chicken specialtyIC TAC TOE
City of Five Flags PENSACOLA
“Eyes Without a Face” album REBEL YELL
Walter’s historic ticket mate GERALDINE
Steve Douglas has got them THREE SONS
Jazz trumpeter known for extended cheeks GILLESPIE
Nobelite Kilby’s great advance
For my club, my community, my country, and my world
Denying rumored sale to Disney
Modern phone with array of buttons rather than dial TOUCHTONE

One way to make 4-H be nine letters would be to spell it out: FOUR-AITCH. Whaddya think?

So all we have to do is figure out how to say “integrated circuit” or some appropriate synonym in nine letters and figure out what’s going on in the business world with Disney.

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twickster has made the first breakthrough here. FOUR-AITCH is not correct though. The rest are.

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I think FOUR-H CLUB works better.
How about GERMANIUM?
I don’t know about the Disney part.

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In keeping with the 9-letter bit…

Denying sale to Disney – LA Dodgers?

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Sale to Disney- UNIVERSAL?

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How about THE IC CHIP for Kilby’s advance?

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Peregrine – what are you suggesting Germanium is an answer to?

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Germanium is used in making IC’s

I would suggest the 9 letter word MICROCHIP for Kilby’s advance

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Microchip is correct.

Kilby’s advance ends with an E.

I believe I need to call secret.

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  1. TICTACTOE
  2. PENSACOLA
  3. REBELYELL
  4. GERALDINE
  5. THREESONS
  6. GILLESPIE
  7. MICROCHIP
  8. FOURHCLUB
  9. ???
  10. TOUCHTONE

Each pair has two pairs of letters that are in the same place in each word: A-C for the 1&2; E-L for 2&3; E-L for 3&4; , R-N for 4&5; E-S for 5&6; I-I for 6&7; R-C for7&8; (neither UNIVERSAL nor LADODGERS will work in this pattern at #9, though there’s three repeats from #8 to #10 – O, U, H.)

What the hell any of this means is beyond me.

NEXT!

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That looks good.

#9, upon reflection, is a pretty poor clue, since Disney seems to be involved in almost every rumored transaction these days.

Let’s try this clue
Four children, always, one will die.