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The following tourist postcard greeting contains a hidden name of a world city and its country. After you remove all spaces and punctuation, delete exactly half the letters. What's left are, in correct order, the city and country names. Identify the city and country.

Hotel suite swank--I find lobby grand!

From Page-a-Day Calendar 2016: Amazing Mind Benders, by Puzzability (Mike Shenk, Amy Goldstein and Robert Leighton), Workman Publishing, NY; puzzle for November 8.

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Removing the string "otuteswadobbygr" from the given phrase, we obtain:

• Helsink-ifinland => Helsinki, Finland.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-06-29 23:28:02

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