# Can't read name in sewer **URL:** \ **Category:** Hints\ **Created:** [October 19, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001 "2019-10-19T07:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![knight007au](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@knight007au](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/knight007au)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/1 "2019-10-19T07:50:48Z")
Can anyone help read this name I thought it was Aundi Bella but there is nothing like that in the phone book (I know the phone book sorts by first name)? Is anyone able to read it? EDIT: ok I realized it is actually Andi Bella I thought it was only the names in black so I was scanning over the gray names but the text is sooo hard to read. Thanks ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/4/4373b08fdcbffa9f261787a2f31f690be2708d52.png) ---
**Author:** ![kaiman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kaiman](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/kaiman)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/2 "2019-10-19T08:50:32Z")
Looks like Andi Bella. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/3 "2019-10-19T14:34:59Z")
After the introduction of _HintTron 3000™_ this seems to be the only puzzle left people can get stuck on. Maybe we should change the HintTron to help with this puzzle… ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/4 "2019-10-19T20:37:45Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > Maybe we should change the HintTron to help with this puzzle… You mean like how you can call 112 without credit? ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 5:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/5 "2019-10-20T05:41:45Z")
Touché - why not call 911 ? (112 would not be time-period appropriate) Or have the in-game character to look at it in their dialogue font… “look at hard-to-read message” -\> “it says I should call Andi Bella” That posses some other issues though: what if you do not have subtitles turned on? No way they’re going to record all these lines. A font change or the hintline also imply a patch, which probably has a lower chance of reaching stuck players for a game that’s released for such a long time now. I am afraid we’ll have to man this station to help them out. Really meta if you think about the randomness of involving backers in this puzzle in-game. ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/6 "2019-10-21T06:11:01Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > No way they’re going to record all these lines. That would have been awesome 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/7 "2019-10-21T07:18:40Z")
You could make 'em read it in a computer-(pre-)generated voice. Something like: According to the Yellow Tubes information directory, this says AN. DIE. BEL. LA. (Any mispronunciation like DIE instead of DEE would only enhance it.) Or more boring but easier to manage: A. N. D. I. etc. ---
**Author:** ![tlammert](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tlammert/32/22_2.png) [@tlammert](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tlammert)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/8 "2019-10-21T12:34:41Z")
I still wonder why this happens all the time. Maybe it´s because I grew up with this, but I had not a single time problems to read that name. Not when I played the game myself and not when somebody posted his problem over here. I look at it and read it. It´s just like I don´t get what´s the problem with that. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![kaiman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kaiman](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/kaiman)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/9 "2019-10-21T17:04:08Z")
> [@tlammert](#): > > Maybe it´s because I grew up with this I wonder, too. Maybe we should ask people’s age in the future, before answering these kinds of questions. Strictly for statistical purposes, of course! 🙂 > [@Frenzie](#): > > You could make 'em read it in a computer-(pre-)generated voice. Which would likely lead to posts along the line of “I can’t understand the voice in sewer”. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/10 "2019-10-21T17:19:09Z")
> [@kaiman](#): > > Maybe we should ask people’s age in the future “Have you ever held a phonebook?” ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/11 "2019-10-23T00:22:14Z")
> [@tlammert](#): > > I still wonder why this happens all the time. The font IS hard to read and it doesn’t spell simple English words but names, often foreign ones. (This plus lookup issues like first names before last name or not realising you have multiple pages per letter.) Glancing at the example in this thread I can perfectly understand someone’s reading it as “Aundi”. The letters are quite squeezed together it looks like cursive! ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/13 "2019-10-23T07:31:51Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > Aundi It means “where” in Sardinian. Quite fitting. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/14 "2019-10-23T18:29:49Z")
I really wonder what you wrote in the middle of the night… and then withdrew after waking up. ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/15 "2019-10-23T18:43:43Z")
I managed to capture it before it was gone. > [@Totally @Nor\_Treblig at 3 AM and not me at 20:43](#): > > I’m going to have to strongly disagree with myself. Few non-Telltale games are as legible as TWP some 3 meters from my 24 inch screen. I recently played _The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit_ and I could barely read letters in that game even from up close. That game somewhat works around the problem by giving you the ability to call up a plain text transcript of the oddly out of place low-res assets, which is legible from some 3 meters but it’s still too small a font for being comfortable to read. Thimbleweed Park is very far down on the list of illegible games. > > However, this specific font has a slightly unique feature. It’s easy to read from up close, but it’s even easier to read from further away. Do people who find it hard to read experience it the same way (except “less hard” instead of “even easier”)? > > Now obviously various people find it difficult to read, ergo it must indeed be difficult. That’s self-evident. But at the same time, I fully agree with @tlammert. I don’t just find it easy to read, it’s _easier_ to read than the minuscule and/or annoyingly blurry, weirdly pixelated fonts in most games! > > Of course you could easily turn that around: most games are absolutely terrible, and TWP is slightly less terrible than most. 😉 > > But yeah, I don’t (necessarily) want to sit at work-like 40-60 cm distances to play games. It’s even worse when those tiny fonts are illegibly blurry to boot. Which TWP simply doesn’t have for me. It’s slightly blurry of course, but it’s simultaneously large enough and not blurry enough for it not to matter. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/16 "2019-10-24T10:31:06Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > I really wonder what you wrote in the middle of the night… and then withdrew after waking up. Nothing important. I started writing something but accidentally hit send mid-sentence. I’ve withdrawn it right away. I was just starting to comment on the patch, like so: > [@Sushi](#): > > a patch, which probably has a lower chance of reaching stuck players for a game that’s released for such a long time now. That’s fine. I want to be TWP the best game out there, but not necessarily for other players, it’s OK when I (selfishly) can have the fully patched version! All the others can play the original, unpatched and unsafe version with all its tube-overflow and strong-signal-injection bugs. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/17 "2019-10-24T10:40:35Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > I managed to capture it before it was gone. There are just too many mistakes in the first few sentences alone to make it somewhat believable! > non-Telltale games I would never write this. It’s either “non-telltale games” or “non-Telltale Games games”!!11 > I recently played [some Steam[/console]-only game] Only 3 sentences in and everyone just _barely_ knowing me immediately knows it’s fake! ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/cant-read-name-in-sewer/4001/18 "2019-10-24T15:57:58Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > “non-Telltale Games games”!!11 😂