One for the Noobs: Hints and Hauls

Ah, if that's the case, I can't count 24oz in my total. So it drops it from 194 to 170. Next time I'll keep this in mind.

 

hell I might send a sixer of a beer, I usually cant drink just one of these anyway

 

NOOB question. Why would you not include duplicates in your oz total?

 

Idk my fellow ncsu alum, i am a noob too.. just semed like the right thing to do.

 

send good beers multiples vintage , wants etc, blow your target up

 

Man, I can't resist one more hint. I just looked up the package tracking info to see where it is and it gave me an idea for hint. It's a bit easier than the others I've posted.

From my location, the package initially travelled 47 miles (not saying what direction). From there, it travelled another 550 miles where it currently resides at a Fedex location until it departs on the next leg of its journey. Only 70 more miles and it will be anxiously awaiting for its new owner to open it up and enjoy its contents.

 

Wolfpack! Although we have been stumbling a little lately on the bb court.

 

To my target: delivery is scheduled for end of day Friday.

 

Everything's boxed for my target, beer in one and schwag in a separate one. Looks like the weather in their neck of the woods is going to be in the 60's all next week, so mine is hitting the road Monday. I'm not going to lie, there's over 200 oz. of fluid in mine, but one bottle is a 2007 vintage so I'll consider that part of the schwag, a "collectible," if you will.

A summation of my hints thus far with new hint:

Hint 1: Target is west of me.
Hint 2: Target likes stouts (and IPA's, and apparently barleywines, really just beer) and they didn't include a shirt size.
Hint 3: Target has a penis.
Hint 4: The beer in my avatar is not listed in my target's lists of hads, wants, or gots, but each of his lists contains less than 100 beers so it's entirely possible they've had it.

 

Well my target should be receiving their package on Friday. Because my target updated their wants to more of what I might have been able to obtain, I decided to go with wants over should want, so I was able to knock out 5 of their wants, but I had to limit the beer to only one brewery instead of the two I had originally planned on. The box contains 4 750mL bottles, 4 12oz botles, and 5 12 oz cans totalling 173.6oz or 209.6oz depending on whose "NOOB Math" you wish to use.

Since they did not include a shirt size they are only ending up with a nice little bowl to drink out of and something to help open the bottles since none of them are not twist off or corked. I have also included my local brewery sticker because I like to mark its teritory where ever I send their beer.

Hint: Target lives in a city where a college in that town played in a nationally televised game last night.

Unfortunately I have only eliminated half of you so I still have no clue as to who is going to blow up my porch.

 

Damn, I wake up and find out that Fedex says the package is out for delivery. So, either Fedex is full of crap or my target is gonna have a liquid breakfast.

As there's a possibility it could be arriving in the next couple of hours, here's the answer to Hint #3.

Hint: ymetgrtstaloocintarebrosdadboyfoetrwa

The biggest thing was trying to find common words that people use in these hints and then go from there. Once you find a word or two, then you can try to guess where the spaces should be. So:

ym etgrts ta taloocin rebrosd a dboy fo etrwa

Which translates to:

My targets location borders a body of water.

(I threw the extra "ta" in there to throw some people off).

 

Ok, here's something that will help out with the remaining hints. My favorite NFL team is the Dolphins. This should help out trying to get the longitude and latitude. I'll provide the answers to the last set of riddles in about two hours. Based on Fedex's insane delivery schedule, the package may be delivered before then. Hope it doesn't sit outside though because it's below freezing right now at my target's location.

 

Houston, we may have a problem.
I shipped Monday to avoid my package sitting over the weekend in a potentially below freezing situation.
It is a 5 day delivery to my target, which means no matter what, it was going to sit somewhere over a weekend.
Weather in my target's city is about the same as where I am, and it will be below freezing this weekend. I sure hope it ends up in a warehouse, not an unheated trailer.

 

I've decided to wait until the 18th to ship to my target so I can pick up two more wants (hopefully) on a trip. I'll drink some stuff I had in the box, swap in some fresh ones before I ship and depending on how early Monday I get it dropped off it should be in my targets hands by either the 19th or the 20th (estimated 2 day shipping).

Also, I haven't the slightest idea who's shipping to me at this point.

 

Scheduled Delivery:
Friday, 02/08/2013, By End of Day
Last Location:
Departed - Maumee, OH, United States, Wednesday, 02/06/2013

 

Ok, well it's getting close to delivery time so here's the answer to the riddles from yesterday.

Here's the tracking number in its entirety: 045a98715bcdefg


Riddle 1 - a: Subtract 50 from 40. Take 10 from 9. Remove 9 from 6. Reverse the order of your answer and you'll have this number.

Answer 1 - Convert the numbers into Roman Numerals. What you end up getting is the following:

1. 50 from 40 = XL - L = X
2. 10 from 9 = X - IX = I
3. 9 from 6 = IX - SIX = S

So the answer for a is 6.

Riddle 2 - b: 3rd Number in Longitude of my favorite NFL teams' stadium (Hint: My favorite NFL team is on the east coast).

Answer 2 - My favorite NFL team is the Miami Dolphins who call Sun Life Stadium their home. The longitude for the stadium is -80.248062.

So the answer for b is 2.


Riddle 3 - c: XIVIXXIVV

Answer 3 - Separate out the roman numerals and then convert the number they represent to their alpha value. So,

1. XIV = 14 = N
2. IX = 9 = I
3. XIV =14 = N
4. V = 5 = E

So the answer for c is 9.

Riddle 4 - d: 6th Number in Latitude of my favorite NFL teams' stadium.

Answer 4 - This number is always a bit tricky (like the longitude one) because the number can vary slightly. The number I used for the latitude is 25.9593.

So the answer for d is 3.

Riddle 5 - e: If 1+4+3=534
And 2+6+4=12814
Then 1+2+3 = X.
Find X. Sum the total of the numbers in X to find this number.

Answer 5 - This one is a fun one. Let's use the first equation as an example. 1+4+3. Now let's rename them to a+b+c. Now that we've done that, let's give the answer of 534 the value of def. a*b will equal d. a*c will equal e. And d+e-b will equal f.

So let's apply that to finding X. 1+2+3 = 233. The sum of 233 (2+3+3) is 8. Therefore, the answer to e is 8.

Riddle 6 - f: Number of Posts I had before posting in this thread.

Answer 6 - 1. So f = 1.

Riddle 7 - g: Number of tours I did in Iraq as an infantryman in the USMC.

Answer 7 - 2. So g = 2.

So just substitute the numbers I've given you in the answer with the corresponding letters in the tracking number and you will have the full tracking number. Plug it in at fedex.com and you'll have the target location.

To everyone that bothered trying to figure out my hints, I apologize. I just wanted to have some fun and make my target work for it.

 

Whoa whoa whoa, stop the clock.
Just checked the destination. I think I may pee my pants today.

 

To everyone that bothered trying to figure out my hints, I apologize. I just wanted to have some fun and make my target work for it.[/quote]
Nothing to apologize for, Tylenol made the headaches go away, and the clues that I was able to decipher were enough that I was correct on my guess as to your target.
As for who has me, I've got no clue--narrowed down to a mere 14 possibilities.