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YABA5 - clue 3 - solution

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Div
# Teams
Who Solved
% Teams
Who Solved
Rank
(1=easiest)
B
11
52
11
R
16
67
6
M
7
78
8
All
34
63
11

 

Scrabble Scramble

                       

Some people noticed that the points values on the tiles above were incorrect for a true Scrabble game, and that if you sort them in ascending numerical order you get the message "AT LAST CURVE"

This wasn't terribly helpful, but if you figured out that the text below leads to Lombard & Leavenworth, at the foot of the crooked street, you would know to climb up to the last curve in the road.

Beginner

Where Rhett's real life wife (Clark Gable was married to Carole LOMBARD, until she died in a plane crash) meets the first city incorporated in Kansas (Leavenworth), which might be valuable ("worth") in making bread rise ("leaven"), climb 2*2*2*3*3*3 steps uphill against the flow of traffic until you are in the location the unscrambled tiles describe. Heed this warning: the writing is on the wall. If you understand it, you'll know where to go next.

Regular

Where Rhett's real life wife meets the first city incorporated in Kansas, take 2*2*2*3*3*3 steps against the flow of traffic until you are in the location the unscrambled tiles describe, then read the writing on the wall.

Masters

Where Rhett's real life wife meets the first city incorporated in Kansas, travel against the flow of traffic until you are in the location the tiles describe, then read the writing on the wall.

All

The numbers above were indexes into the letters written on the wall. The first number in each pair was the column (left to right) and the second number was the row (top to bottom). The decoded message spelled:

GO TO 44 MONTCLAIR FOR WHOM ARE THEY VOTING

Montclair is a high-priced cul-de-sac off the crookedest street, halfway down on the north side, running through to Chestnut Street. The residents of 44 Montclair had a sign supporting Gavin Newsom for Mayor in their garage window. Unfortunately this sign had fallen down and could not be seen, which triggered a flurry of calls from treasure hunters to Game Control (the first of three such flurries in the game - sigh). They were told to describe the house, or put down the address...and within 30 minutes a replacement sign had been taped to a telephone pole outside the residence.