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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Please, I need to know how the ELLADAN clue works, or it will drive me crackers.
ADAMFELL has to lose M and F and gain an N. How does that happen? F isn't the sixth letter from the start.
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Hee, all right:
Adam fell? Add one at the end, subtract six from the start, flip it around for one of two.
The comma-delimited instructions apply to the separate words. ADAM -> add one to the end, by iterating the final letter by one = ADAN. FELL -> subtract six from the start, by removing the sixth letter of the alphabet from the beginning = ELL. Flip it around = reverse the words, so rather than ADAN ELL, we get ELL ADAN.
I know it's not spectacular. I was kind of on a numbers kick with the Ringwraith clue, and deeply annoyed that I couldn't just give that one as '1.', because I couldn't just make it 'Witch-King'.
And now
really over to you.
hS