Things

by Josh Oratz

Answer: AFRICA
Problem: Holi Town/Pi Day Town

Each diagram is a visual depiction of a song, where the blanks are categorized pieces of lyrics within the song. The songs are presented in alphabetic order.

Once a song is identified, lyrics can be placed within the diagram. Lyrics are always listed chronologically within their bubbles.

Taking the letters that correspond with the red numbers across all eight songs and ordering by those numbers gives the clue phrase WHERE I BLESS THE RAINS, which is a reference to the Toto song Africa in which the rains are blessed down in AFRICA which is the solution.

Number	Song	Thing	Letter
1	Come Sail Away	Search for tomorrow on every shore.	W
2	New York, New York	King of the hill	H
3	The Joker	Joker	E
4	Tubthumping	Cider drink	R
5	On My Own	Just a river	E
6	I Want It That Way	My fire	I
7	Never Gonna Give You Up	Say goodbye	B
8	New York, New York	Melting away	L
9	Go the Distance	A great warm welcome	E
10	The Joker	Speak of the pompatus of love	S
11	Tubthumping	Songs that remind him of the good times	S
12	On My Own	Trees	T
13	Come Sail Away	Missed out on that pot of gold	H
14	New York, New York	Wake up	E
15	The Joker	Maurice	R
16	Never Gonna Give You Up	The game	A
17	I Want It That Way	Mistake	I
18	On My Own	Walk with him till morning	N
19	Go the Distance	Go most anywhere	S