Each sentence of this brochure, except for the last two, contains all the
letters of the alphabet but one. The "missing" letters from each sentence spell NELLIS DUNES EXIT.
The next-to-last sentence is missing the letters E, F, I, and V (FIVE). The last
sentence is missing E, G, H, I, and T (EIGHT). The answer is thus NELLIS
DUNES EXIT 58.
Note the use in the brochure of pictures of Game Control investigating
Mouse's Tank during scouting trips.
Constructing this clue was particularly painful because the answer changed
several times, and it took 5-10 minutes of work to generate each sentence.
Originally all the sentences were missing a single letter. The "58" was added after the beta game to ensure that players could
locate the correct exit to Nellis Dunes (also known as Las Vegas Dunes). At that
point the
multiple-missing-letters stratagem was invented so we wouldn't have to come up
with nine new sentences. However, it turns out that making just one sentence missing
the
popular letters E, G, H, I, and T takes a very, very long time!
Clue authors: Mary-Alice Pomputius and Walter Smith, brochure formatting
by Kevin Shields
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