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I think Grandpa's "tiny travelers" might be:
Since:
Historically:
But fear not!
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Finished nonogram:
These are
Meaning the captain's new boat is literally a
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Thanks to jafe for spotting this. I think the answer is
Solved nonogram
Reasoning
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Her name is:
Explanation:
Attempt #2
Her name is:
Explanation:
Attempt #3, we're getting more far fetched here. Her name is:
Explanation:
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Here's a list that satisfies the rule that upon entering a state, you are forced to choose a town with a strictly different name
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Partial answer
Answers to the trivia quiz:
The letters
And now?
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Continuing from M Oehm's answer:
The phrase he extracted should be parsed as
This is then interpreted:
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The thematic word is:
Because:
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The letters can be replaced as follows:
And the remaining letters spell
(Arnie's owner gave me some difficulty, because
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You are
Taking the first letters, you get
Your nickname:
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3rd Attempt
Because
Finally
2nd Attempt
First Answer
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The first step is to realize:
The clues are ambiguous, but with the above they can be answered in a way that
The clue answers:
The next step:
Finishing off the puzzle:
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This lecture appears to be about:
cracking eggshells and doughnuts can make our bones stronger…
And that pills are used so that bacteria cannot survive
eyeballs were actually used as explosives in modern wars…
And no one or animals can survive without eggs
This lifebuoy is perfect for aircraft components, missiles, spacecraft, and satellites…
And this ...
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Completed nonogram grid:
This is (thanks @msh210 !)
and
so the dress code must be
Edited to add:
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The filled grid:
The aha moment:
The next step:
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You are
Three tongues of rock
My royal decree
To ancient lore
would hold the key
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He shall break them with
because
The initial bit of verse in the puzzle, so far as I can see, is
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Her name is
He sailed along 25 reefs,
passing 1 chameleon,
in order to see her sweet bosoms.
Hint
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I think the girl's name might be
Sailing through the
he would pass many reefs - in fact, it is a popular destination for scuba diving amongst the reefs! As part of the trip, he may pass by a "chameleon":
His final destination:
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It so happens that
There is a town named " Greenville" in every state in the US. So you
can go to each Greenville
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Edited to add my third answer
Partial Answer (But this time I am fairly sure that I got it)
I think the answer is
How I came to this answer:
1.
Some comments regarding the email address
2.
3.
Some comments regarding the phone number:
I couldn't make use of these, but they might be (and probably are) clues as well:
Farm
dropmail.me
The phone number
...
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The girls name is:
The reason is:
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Professor Pun studies
The solved nonogram looks like this:
If you
I arrived at this answer independently of the commenters on hexomino's answer.
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Grandpa likes brands:
The others
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Here is my guess:
He sailed along 25 reefs
passing 1 chameleon
So that takes us to
Bringing in sweet bosoms, I think the girl's name is
Since it's not her, assuming I got the country correct, my second guess is
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I think Tom might be:
The numbers represent:
This means that one of the rows is particularly remarkable:
This achievement is especially remarkable considering:
Finally, to address Tom's comment that "It cost me a lot of money too" - this is likely because:
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SPOILERS A-PLENTY IN THIS ANSWER!
They were talking about:
The opening lines refer to:
and
There then follows discussion of many elements of:
As for the comment in the title ("Weren't we supposed to know more of the story by now…?")
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Perhaps the sequence goes like this
being
I confess that I don't know
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