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Solution 4b: Poem

Although it was not immediately obvious to the teams who were playing, the poem was a continuation of the previous puzzle. After fixing the spelling mistakes, the poem is:

Can you think of a way to
Lift this pesky code, and
Except in the case of number three,
Fix all the other letters?

Can you think of a way to
Lift this pesky code, and
Except in the case of number two,
Fix all the other letters?

The spelling mistakes in the poems are limited to the following letters in each stanza:

	Incorrect	Correct
First Stanza	A	C
	O	Y
	L	I
Second Stanza	B	H
Second Stanza	S	L

The first letters of each line spell "CLEF", indicating that the clefs from the lullaby are still significant. Furthermore, the incorrect letters in the first stanza are all contained in "ALTO", and the incorrect letters in the second stanza are all contained in "BASS".

The poem directs you to "fix" all of the letters besides the third letter (for the first stanza) and the second letter (for the second stanza). Using the above substitutions to correct the word "ALTO" and "BASS":

	Incorrect	Correct
First Stanza	A	C
	L	I
	T	T
	O	Y
Second Stanza	B	H
	A	A
	S	L
	S	L

The teams' next destination was Oakland City Hall.

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