Friday, October 14, 2005

Sixth Clue

The sixth clue relates to the newspaper in the upper left corner of the picture with the Sega Genesis cartridges. Brother Paul claims that this newspaper is the Saint Paul Pioneer Press and included some jibberish about an unfinished crossword puzzle. It is indeed the Pioneer Press, but I'm a bit sceptical as to how and if he detected this or if he just guessed.
Here's how I would do it. Turn the photo upside down and zoom in and you will see a photo of a columnist.

If you are familiar with the Pioneer Press you might recognize that this guy is the sports columnist Charley Walters. But even without this info it could be derived by looking at the content of that section of the newspaper. One would notice that talk is of sports and the Wild are invoked. Must be the Minnesota Wild. Online one could quickly check who are the columnists for the Saint Paul and Minneapolis papers and find Charley Walters in Saint Paul.

Saint Paul paper with sports section on top. Probably someone in the Eastern Metro who reads sports. Ergo the kitty is at the home of Dan and Jo or Dean and Kurt. But the puzzle states that one of Dean and Kurt's Kittys has found a NEW home. So things tip in the direction of Dan and Jo.

3 comments:

ms said...

Dan i was noticing how you were able to cut out parts of pictures and post them. How do you do that? Is it part of the windows paint program or do you use another program to crop the photos?

By the way i will guess that the cat is at your house now.

Dancelot said...

I use a photo editor. Right now I'm using Photo Impressions by Arc Soft. The only reason I use that as opposed to another is because we got it free when we bought our digital camera. We got another kind which I don't use when we bought our printer.
A few years ago I had a (pirated) copy of Photoshop which is expensive and almost too fancy. You need a manual to use it and if you don't use it frequently you forget everything.
If you don't have a photo editor on your computer I'm guessing you could get one for $30.

northberger said...

Mark, I just use the Paint program. It's simple, it's quick. Perhaps we could get together on the phone sometime and I could walk you through it.