I like the idea of it being based on the expansion of some business. A lot of businesses incorporate themselves in Delaware which is #1. The remaining states seem to follow an approximate regional pattern.
Delaware was the first state to allow legal briefs to be submitted on CD-ROM…do other states do that now?
Please read through the entire thread. There are already a great deal of hints in there.
The website hasn’t been updated since March. I’m thinking the guy that made it has abandoned it or something.
Just read the thread - I’m a sucker for these things.
So, something that happened. Perhaps sports, perhaps baseball from that list: the “colourful pitchers” gag I liked.
Order of first something by a black baseball player? Or at least a famous player, like Babe Ruth’s home runs or something?
I doubt it, as most states do not have a baseball team.
I wonder what the answer to this was. Three year bump!
A lot of people spent a lot of time on this puzzle and got nowhere. Not only that, the puzzle seems to have disappeared after 15 or 20 states. My feeling is that the answer is too obscure or something too personal to the puzzle author for anyone to have a realistic chance of guessing it.
The website for the puzzle hasn’t been updated for over four years. No word on how much they received in ‘charitable donations’ or which charity benefited.
The whole thing seems rather fishy.
It would be ridiculously easy to just put up a fake puzzle like this, wouldn’t it?
What if there really is a third -gry word?
Is there a crop that is grown in all 48 contiguous states that is not grown in Alaska or Hawaii, such as soy beans?
I am going to lean towards ‘per capita’ as part of the ranking. Someone earlier posted ‘most chickens per capita’. Don’t rule that out.
Let’s see.
48 or 50 states
Geographic clustering
Sounds like the ratification order of a Constitutional amendment somewhere between 1912 to 1959 and easily available on Wikipedia. Alaska and Hawaii would then be 49 and 50 respectively when they attained statehood.
Let me check . . .
Dammit! :mad:
No one’s come close in 5 years? That’s mighty suspicious in itself.
I did a Wikipedia article on this puzzle back in 2003. Nobody ever updated it with a solution or new information.
Somebody later decided to delete the article, apparently enforcing the unofficial rule of “anything I don’t want to know about isn’t important.”
I think it’s the list of states where Donald Eugene Ivens was last sighted. It’s all making sense now.
How about “States least likely to care about this puzzle”?
It’s pretty hard to search for this in a thread and maybe someone has already mentioned it, but do you think this will have no answer such as the “14 k of g in a fpd” puzzle?
Now that I think of it, about 25 years ago, George Thorogood and the Destroyers played in 50 states on 50 consecutive days. Would this be the order in which they toured? And maybe (to make it tougher - as if it weren’t already) the order would have the stipulation that only contiguous states are allowed.