Now that the solution is out, let's take another look at this Sunday Puzzle:
This week's challenge from from Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minn. I'm looking for the names of two companies. One of them has a two-part name (5,5). The other has a three-part name (5,7,5). The last five-letter part of the two names is the same. And the first five-letter part of the first company's name is something the second company wants. What is it?
I'm disappointed I didn't solve this one, but perhaps it's cold comfort that the relevant companies simply weren't on my list. It's hard to believe that they weren't included in any of the lists of biggest companies that I cobbled together for this puzzle. I had over 28,000 companies in my final list. I've added the correct companies now, and my script does find them among the possible solutions.
So what were the companies?
OK, on to the next one!
