Northwest Fishing Reports

I have an old friend who was my coworker for many years, then retired and is now doing what he loves. He invents puzzles. He used to bring prototypes in and let me solve/critique them (or at least try). He is in a close knit organization of puzzle makers that includes Will Shortz (New York Times X-word Puzzle creator) & Erno Rubik (Rubik's cube). This guy is pretty amazing. He used to come in and draw a pool table on the white board, then proceed to tell me the angle degrees and rate of speed and spin on the ball he put to make a shot the night before. You tell him your birth date, he will fire back the day of the week you were born before you can finish your sentence. He has a room in his house, full sized pool table in the middle and the walls are all shelves behind glass doors, hundreds, maybe thousands of puzzles he has collected.

This is the X-mas card I got from him this year. Enjoy...

In the alphabet why is there no L? The number were Woooosh over my head.I do like puzzels.

No L = Noel

Achh sooooo.

Noel..., Noel..., Noel..., Noel...,

Born is the king of Israel.

KCC got the 4th Noel. Missing L

6635= numbers on a phone keyboard- 66=NO, 3=E 5=L

Third Noel, 14,15,5,12- Letter numbers, 14= N, 15=O,5=E, 12=L

Can't figure out the letters with numbers.....yet[wink]

Marc Martyn wrote:Noel..., Noel..., Noel..., Noel...,
Born is the king of Israel.
KCC got the 4th Noel. Missing L
6635= numbers on a phone keyboard- 66=NO, 3=E 5=L
Third Noel, 14,15,5,12- Letter numbers, 14= N, 15=O,5=E, 12=L
Can't figure out the letters with numbers.....yet[wink]

Nice job Marc!

The hardest one will definately be the 2nd line - here is a hint..
In his working life my friend spent 30 years as an IBM MAINFRAME computer programmer (sometimes it is good to go back to old school ways)..

I kind of figured that it might be related to computer programing somehow. In that area, I am totally lost.

Marc Martyn wrote:I kind of figured that it might be related to computer programing somehow. In that area, I am totally lost.

Machine language? Octal? Hexadecimal? Not that I know any of that stuff, just exposed to it years ago. Now where's that barfing smiley????