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Enigmarch 2025, Day 30: ROUTE
Apr. 27th, 2025 01:47 amLooks like this feller's got another one of them conundra for ya.
Crossroads
Welcome to Crossroads! We don't get many visitors here, least not many as actually stops. 'course, you can see from the town map that there ain't much here, so that pretty much makes sense:
Mostly we're just a town folks pass through on their way from one place to another, what with ten towns around us. Ain't even sure "X" is the real name of that town, by the way, but they're real secretive and maybe they're just not telling us the rest of the letters.
Anyway, let me give ya some sense of what I mean when I say folks pass through here. Couple three days ago, seven different cars came through town, and not one of 'em stopped to look around. Now, that might could be on account of the storm fixin' to come through, but it's kinda par for the course. Let's see if I can remember right: we saw...
A'course, one reason people don't stop here much is probably 'cause they don't like our road signs. There's all the "no left turns" ones you must've seen on your way in, and then there's that stack over there that all got blown over during that storm. Four identical signs per intersection, each one givin' the rule for that intersection about whether you gotta go straight or turn right. Little hard to read when they're all stacked up, but here, I got 'em all written down:
Main source of income 'round here is farming and traffic tickets. Seen a lotta people standin' in front of the judge, arguin' over what words are common and whether Y's a consonant, which it ain't, not 'round these parts. (Also a weirdly high number of people tryin' to read our intersections as Braille just 'cause there's a 2x3 grid of 'em, even though the judge keeps telling 'em that if you're reading Braille, you shouldn't be driving, so cut it out.) Honestly, it was kinda unusual to get seven law-abidin' drivers that day before the storm.
Anyway, thanks for comin' to Crossroads. If you're lookin' to make some cash, we could sure use help getting all those signs back up.
Don't take a map to find the answer checker though.
Crossroads
Welcome to Crossroads! We don't get many visitors here, least not many as actually stops. 'course, you can see from the town map that there ain't much here, so that pretty much makes sense:
Mostly we're just a town folks pass through on their way from one place to another, what with ten towns around us. Ain't even sure "X" is the real name of that town, by the way, but they're real secretive and maybe they're just not telling us the rest of the letters.
Anyway, let me give ya some sense of what I mean when I say folks pass through here. Couple three days ago, seven different cars came through town, and not one of 'em stopped to look around. Now, that might could be on account of the storm fixin' to come through, but it's kinda par for the course. Let's see if I can remember right: we saw...
- an Audi, that came from Raleigh and left towards Toledo;
- a Buick, that came from Upton and left towards York;
- a Chrysler, that came from Villaville and left towards Raleigh;
- a Chevrolet, that came from York and left towards Toledo;
- a Dodge, that came from Zilla and left towards Quincy;
- an Esemka--don't see a lot of those, gather they're from Indonesia, but that don't really matter--that came from Raleigh and left towards Quincy;
- and a Ford, that came from Wessex and left towards Springfield.
A'course, one reason people don't stop here much is probably 'cause they don't like our road signs. There's all the "no left turns" ones you must've seen on your way in, and then there's that stack over there that all got blown over during that storm. Four identical signs per intersection, each one givin' the rule for that intersection about whether you gotta go straight or turn right. Little hard to read when they're all stacked up, but here, I got 'em all written down:
- If the first letter of the make of car you're driving is repeated later in the name, go straight; otherwise, turn right.
- If the make of car you're driving can form a new word if a J is added, go straight; otherwise, turn right.
- If the make of car you're driving ends with a consonant, go straight; otherwise, turn right.
- If the make of car you're driving is five letters long, turn right; otherwise, go straight.
- If there's more than one consonant in the make of car you're driving, go straight; otherwise, turn right.
- If you can form a common American English word by changing the first letter of the make of car you're driving to a letter in the second half of the alphabet, turn right; otherwise, go straight.
Main source of income 'round here is farming and traffic tickets. Seen a lotta people standin' in front of the judge, arguin' over what words are common and whether Y's a consonant, which it ain't, not 'round these parts. (Also a weirdly high number of people tryin' to read our intersections as Braille just 'cause there's a 2x3 grid of 'em, even though the judge keeps telling 'em that if you're reading Braille, you shouldn't be driving, so cut it out.) Honestly, it was kinda unusual to get seven law-abidin' drivers that day before the storm.
Anyway, thanks for comin' to Crossroads. If you're lookin' to make some cash, we could sure use help getting all those signs back up.
Don't take a map to find the answer checker though.