HOROBOD and all that

Over the past few months the Toronto Transit Commission has run two or three contests where puzzles were posted on advertising panels and solvers could send their names in for a prize draw.

I don't imagine people here will have much trouble with them, but here are most of the puzzles from the contest just ended. View in monospaced font. Content in [] is my description of things that I can't represent in ASCII. There was one other puzzle which requires a diagram, so I'm not going to post it.

Identify these occupations. Example: BOTMLN = Accountant

1. TOOFDR 2. DOC4JOX 3. MOVN FR8

Find the hidden messages (i.e. these are rebus puzzles, also callver the past few months the Toronto Transit Commission has run two or three contests where puzzles were posted on advertising panels and solvers could send their names in for a prize draw.

I don't imagine people here will have much trouble with them, but here are most of the puzzles from the contest just ended. View in monospaced font. Content in [] is my description of things that I can't represent in ASCII. There was one other puzzle which requires a diagram, so I'm not going to post it.

Identify these occupations. Example: BOTMLN = Accountant

1. TOOFDR 2. DOC4JOX 3. MOVN FR8

Find the hidden messages (i.e. these are rebus puzzles, also called Wacky Wordies and various other names).

4. [Large letter A, with much smaller letters MAT written in white on the crossbar of the A as background]

5. HOROBOD

T 6. LIP O LIP E [Here the letters T, O, and E should be individually slightly tilted to the left, their centerlines falling along the same diagonal line]

7. YONGE READING UNIVERSITY

1. Dentist 2. Sports physician 3. Trucker

Matinee

Robin Hood

Foot in mouth?

Jim Gollogly has numbers 1 through 5 correct. (There were, of course, several other correct occupations for number 3.)

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Tiptoe through the tulips

Ed Murphy has correctly solved number 6. That leaves number 7.

Could this be 'Reading in the subway'?

Well, I won't comment on whether it *could*, but it *isn't*.

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possible spoiler

Are Yonge and University subway/trains lines? - in which case

'reading between the lines'

matthew newell

: > 7. YONGE : > READING : > UNIVERSITY : >

Mark Brader, quoting the TTC:

Matthew Newell:

Actually, no. There is one line called the Yonge-University-Spadina Line.

Nevertheless, that's the correct answer. The word 'line' is sometimes used for individual sections of a line, and I reckon this is the same sort of permissible imprecision that we see in this sort of puzzle when two LIPs turn into TULIPS.

Edgar De Blieck:

There, see? Yonge-University-Spadina Line every time.

Mark Brader (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message

Not permissible in the UK where we say 'tyoo-lips' or more colloquially