Was a huge Encyclopedia Brown fan growing up in the 70s.madhatter5 wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 3:41 am Solution:
The phrase Barnie heard, Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD., bags few lynx, is a perfect pangram (i.e. an anagram of the entire alphabet). The evildoers' code involved ciphering letters of the alphabet, using that sentence as the key:
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z M R J O C K T V Q U I Z P H D B A G S F E W L Y N X
Using this code, we can decipher the circled letters in the grid:
TWDBKOQ -> FLORIDA
Thus, the heist was going to take place at FLORIDA BANK.
Definitely had a crush on Sally!
I got caught up trying to convert the circled letters' position in the phrase to position in the alphabet or grid numbers, so never got the AHA.
Those dirty rotten litterbug thieves were PhDs compared to me.
Looking forward to similar story-linked puzzles in the future.
Thanks for the timewarping and heartwarming puzzle.