h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, you're right. Told you I wasn't good at geography.

And I couldn't/can't spot any word rule.

Ugi, I think you've solved it, but your last submission skipped one.

If we reset to Swansea (which is correct), then I'll add:

Ebbw Vale

OK, maybe I got confused. Let's try:

Whiteacre

Actually, Icy, I think Lake Saint John was good for posts 10 and 11 in the first cycle, not that I intended it to be. Weird eh!

OK, we have a winner!

The Golden Rule was that the words in order had A, B, C, etc positioned in the first, second, third letter, etc, but these alternated between counting from the beginning and the end of the word, eg:

southend-on-seA
aBerystwyth
billeriCay
winDsor


Point to Ugi

Over to you...

(and yes it did seem weird - that one. There are a number of towns which could be used more than once)

The place-names were a great blind on that one Icy - I spent an age googling only to kick myself when I saw the link!

Let's kick off GRG 26 with:

Stone

Flash

Flash breaks GR26, so from Stone, we have:

Beetle

Kink

Kink breaks the rule, so from Beetle, we have:

Stork

stack

Stack breaks GR 26, so from Stork, we'll try

Another

stops

Drat! Doesn't look like I'll get to use many of my best ones!

That's good Icy - let's have one more from:

Rubber

stole?

Oh! A reprieve, maybe....

Stole breaks GR26, so from Rubber, we have:

Nuthatch

I haven't the foggiest what this is - I was working on the rule "alternate words are STO**"

Back to the drawing board

A fine rule, but perhaps a little obvious even for me! Keep going - it will get harder for me to hide the rule as we proceed!

There's a faint bell ringing, so I'll try

bells