I met the twins many years ago during a weekend of gambling with a bunch of my fraternity brothers in Tahoe.  We were in a large elevator, on our way down to the casino, when the doors opened and we saw them.  They entered, looked us over and said in unison "Would you like to do some gambling with us?"  Then one of them said "Hi, I'm Dorothy and this is Debra but please just call us Dotty and Debby."  I spoke up and said "I apologize, but you've caught us a bit off guard, I'm Mumbles and I'm sure my fraternity brothers and I would love to spend time with you."  "If you're fraternity brothers then I say we should go back to our suite", said Debby.  "What kind of devilish games do you girls have in mind?" Lurch jokingly asked.  Within seconds we were on our way to the twin's suite.  Debby started off saying, "We have got a hunch that you'd love to see some magic first."  Then Dotty continued the pitch with, "Yes, and then we'll play a word game that involves our telepathic powers and some generous wagering by you guys."

Once we got to their suite half of our group went into an adjoining room with Debby and half stayed with Dotty.  For the next hour or so we watched the twins perform some magic; mostly card tricks.  Then we found out about the word game. We would be allowed to provide a word to the one of the twins.  They would in turn provide the matching word that was supposed to be the first word that came into their head.  The same initial word would be provided to the other twin and the bet was that this twin would provide same matching word.  We could choose any word we wanted as long as it wasn't a swear word and as long as they understood the word. The minimum bet would be $20 per word and if they provided a different matching word we would get $60.

Someone called out the word "Science" and Dotty promptly told to use the small pads of paper to write our names and a single word and pass it to her with a twenty dollar bill.  Dotty looked at each paper, quickly wrote her matching word and then returned it to whoever had made the bet. Debby did the same in the adjoining room.  After the twins had finished writing their matching words and the papers had been returned, the group from the adjoining room came over to our side.

Two chairs were set up for the twins so that they were separated by a good 20 feet but facing each other.  The rest of us sat on couches that were on either side of the path between the twins.  One of the twins would then call us in turn to call out our words. The twins sat absolutely still and within seconds the twin, who had not seen that word before, said the exact same matching word that her sister had previously written down.  This pattern repeated itself multiple times and only one word was missed.  The twins had been physically separated, we watched their every move and at no time were they away from our complete view.

For many years I simply believed that the twins had indeed some sort of telepathic powers until I discovered something while solving another geocache puzzle.  I can't be the only one with this insight and as such others should have no problem extracting coordinates from the following word pair list.


deadline + mortician
comedian + academy
abalone + custodian
mosquito + stampede
infectious + frivolity
maverick + consensus
pugnacious + league
obvious + average


Check your coordinates here.