This riddle gives you examples of "journeys." Your job is to find the rule governing the journeys, or why you end up with a particular destination. I will list 5 examples below. If you figure out the key, please do not give away the solution, but instead, prove that you have figured it out by creating a journey of your own, as well as the Final Destination.

Journey #1:
Start in Denver.
Stay 4 nights.
Fly to Dover.
Fly to Georgia.
Stay 2 nights.
Drive to Raleigh.
Take the train to San Francisco.
Final Destination = Los Angeles

Journey #2:
Start in Delaware.
Stay 4 nights.
Go to Little Rock.
Go to Pensacola.
Go to Hawaii.
Stay there for 3 nights.
Go to New Jersey.
Go to San Diego.
Final Destination = Miami.

Journey #3:
Start in St. Louis.
Stay there for 5 nights.
Go to New Hampshire.
Fly all the way to Singapore.
Final Destination = Phoenix.

Journey #4:
Before you start, your flight is delayed 1 night.
You start in Nebraska.
Then off to Grand Forks.
Stay there for 2 nights.
Travel to Lubbock.
Drive to San Antonio.
Final Destination = Anaheim, CA.

Journey #5:
Start out in Cleveland.
Stay for 1 night.
Go to Richmond.
Go to Denver.
Stay for 3 nights.
Go to New York City.
Stay for 1 night.
Go to Lexington.
Go to Savannah.
Final Destination = St. Louis.

This is depressively diffcult.
Thinking along the same lines as Tristan, I also wondered if we should look into the possible difference between "Stay" and "Stay there" and between "Travel" and "Go To"
This would indicate that there is a connection between the destination and the wording before it.  A (most likely) wrong example is: "Fly all the way to" compared with "Fly to" where the first is a long flight combined with many letters/words.
I looked into the combinations of vowels, consonants, number of letters, number of  syllables for both the destination (and the state/ states capital) and the wording before it,  but: nothing.
As Charlie, I found Lubbeck in Texas, but there does not seem to be a Singapore in the US.
I also traced the journeys on a map to see if it would form a special pattern: nothing there.
Other source of information is the title: nothing there either!
Third source of info: read all sarabeth's comments. They where all on (the more easy) riddles, so it may be that I am searching for a much too difficult solution.
I still think that there is some combination between the wording describing the way of travelling and the length of the destination's name.  The nights stayed may give on offset on the word length. 
But I am also completely in the dark on journey's 4 flight delay.  However by now, it does not have the potential to keep me up all night, it is effectively keeping me up.
To summarize: 'I know nothing, and I am even not from Barcelona' :-)

Posted by Hugo on 2005-03-04 22:35:38