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Site Seeing II (Posted on 2017-01-05) Difficulty: 3 of 5
The following tourist postcard greeting contains a hidden name of a world city and it's 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.

Buffet in prosaic restaurant great!
Nothing bad!


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

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Removing fftiprctuantratohgbd leaves buenosairesargentina.

It might be even more of a challenge to think up the original text,  given the restrictions of the problem.



  Posted by broll on 2017-01-05 10:27:40
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