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Extra guess of 4596735541936

I'm allowed this as you've had a guess after mine.

67 is correct.

Julian was surprisingly close with his intial guess considering that a) I have only ever purchased 1 case, b) I can't recall ever purchasing 4 at once, and c) by far my dominant purchase habit is a pair. Of course, if you make a sufficient number of repeat pair purchases, you end up with 6-packs and even cases occasionally.

KillerB is up!

Yep - still up.

But about to go to bed and do a walk for charity tomorrow.

Which borough?

Good night

On the grounds that I'm away for a while, for said walk, it may take some time for me to respond.

Brooklyn?

Re the previous question: the first person to guess (me!) guessed 65, and the right answer was 67. I don’t feel embarrassed.

It was a remarkably accurate guess, which leads me to believe that a 1:3 ratio of different to total bottles must be somewhat normal. I thought it seemed really high, especially considering how most people here seem to purchase by the case, but evidently not.

Also, after posting the quiz, I went back to CellarTracker and discovered that it wasn't actually counting different Ports, but different bottles of Port. So the three instances in my cellar where I have both 750s and 375s of the same Port were counting twice. Ergo an equally valid answer could have theoretically been 64, in which case your guess would have been even closer.

I'm back, so you can guess again. There are enough clues in the appropriate thread.

We did actually start and finish in different boroughs but the vast majority was in one - that's the one I want.

Manhattan?

Are you in Manhattan and haven’t summonsed a tasting in your honour? Wow!

I don't know where in Lancashire the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhatten are, are they near Morecombe?

Both ever so slightly wrong.

Salford

DRT wrote:Salford

Nope - think that's now Greater Manchester

Damn, I used the wrong clue. I think I have now narrowed it down to two possibilities after realising where the real clues were likely to be

I wasn't aware that any city besides New York had boroughs!

Lancashire, huh? (Runs to look at Google maps...)

Okay, so knowing nothing about the area, but gleaning clues from this thread and the other one, I think that Manchester South probably isn't a borough. Derek guessed Salford, so I'm going to guess Trafford.

Blackburn with Darwen

DRT wrote:Blackburn with Darwen

I'd love to give this to you, but I can't. I've set the boundaries.

Trafford is in Greater Manchester.

Are we talking Traditional Boroughs? Pre- or post-1974 County Boundary reforms?

My guess is Ribble Valley.

Burnley

DRT wrote:Burnley

Ooooooooh - nope, you are going to kick yourself

Not Ribble Valley but these are post 1974 boroughs

Warrington? [Changed 2 minutes after posting was I fast enough?]

jdaw1 wrote:Warrington? [Changed 2 minutes after posting was I fast enough?]

Oh yes, easily fast enough but still wrong, especially as it's in Cheshire

Lancaster - presumably a borough in Lancashire and also presumably at least part of the Lancaster canal runs through the borough of Lancaster thus allowing a walk from close to the home of someone who lives in Lancashire, with the walk being along the canals.

If so, you could have ended in either Wyre or Ribble Valley.

AHB wrote:Lancaster - presumably a borough in Lancashire and also presumably at least part of the Lancaster canal runs through the borough of Lancaster thus allowing a walk from close to the home of someone who lives in Lancashire, with the walk being along the canals.

If so, you could have ended in either Wyre or Ribble Valley.

A well thought out and reasoned answer, also incorrect.

Take a look at my responses to Derek's replies.

KillerB wrote: Take a look at my responses to Derek's replies.

Blackburn with Burnley & Darwen?

DRT wrote:

KillerB wrote: Take a look at my responses to Derek's replies.

Blackburn with Burnley & Darwen?

When I said I started in one, did the majority in this one and finished in a third - guess what the beginning and finishing boroughs were. Take a look at a map of Lancashire, see if there is a canal between the beginning and end and see what the borough in the middle is.

Have I given enough clues yet?