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Land of the Lost

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Start file

Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition
Met the greatest earthquake ever known

End file

Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition
   #t   #r   #s   #r   #a   #v   #n
Met the greatest earthquake ever known
    #h    #a    #e    #u    #v    #o

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1a2
>    #t   #r   #s   #r   #a   #v   #n
2a4
>     #h    #a    #e    #u    #v    #o

Solutions

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30 active golfers, 77 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Urtica dioica / @udioica

03/20/2015 at 10:06AM

26

#2 - John Braxler / @braxler

03/27/2015 at 12:08PM

31

#3 - Matt / @mcr05

03/12/2015 at 03:40PM

31

#4 - roudens / @roudens2

03/05/2021 at 01:26AM

32

#5 - Rohan Orton / @rohan_orton

03/14/2015 at 11:48PM

32

#6 - mevmev / @mevmev8

09/15/2021 at 10:47PM

33

#7 - pftb12345 / @pftb12345

03/29/2015 at 08:10AM

34

#8 - Kenny / @zumalifeguard

03/12/2015 at 01:45PM

34

#9 - kungfuchad / @kungfuchad

03/13/2015 at 11:41AM

34

#10 - E Both / @enboth

03/14/2015 at 04:12PM

34

#11 - Alex Plate / @AlexPl292

03/23/2015 at 10:37PM

34

#12 - Grisha Pushkov / @readoonly

06/17/2015 at 11:15AM

35

#13 - DrHobo / @_DrHobo_

03/13/2015 at 10:27PM

37

#14 - James / @Dronak

11/17/2022 at 08:52PM

38

#15 - ltn614 / @ltn614

09/25/2015 at 08:53AM

40

#16 - Grigoriy Glushko / @grinderrz

03/13/2015 at 12:52PM

41

#17 - Miłosz Łakomy / @foobar01123

06/02/2016 at 10:39PM

42

#18 - Ricardo Lima / @ricponteslima

03/16/2015 at 01:03PM

43

#19 - Deepak Surti / @dmsurti

03/12/2015 at 07:13PM

43

#20 - dosmanak / @dosmanak

03/13/2015 at 03:43PM

43

#21 - chrisheithoff / @chrisheithoff

03/14/2015 at 07:55PM

43

#22 - Igor Sowinski / @IgorSowinski

08/16/2017 at 03:53PM

46

#23 - chvzvhn / @chvzvhn

03/13/2015 at 06:17PM

50

#24 - Gammelin Guillaume / @ggammelin

03/12/2015 at 09:57AM

50

#25 - Walker Boh / @walker_boh

12/09/2015 at 02:20PM

55

#26 - Mauro Persano / @fzort

06/05/2015 at 11:21PM

64

#27 - basilest / @basilest

03/13/2015 at 10:42AM

68

#28 - Максим Самойлов / @NitiveMax

03/13/2015 at 04:34PM

74

#29 - Igor Potceluev / @4eppelin

04/03/2015 at 01:55PM

85

#30 - Borna Sadeghi / @borna_sadeghi

03/19/2021 at 05:25AM