The lists of numbers and letters correspond to two players scoring a series of turns and drawing tiles in a Scrabble game. Each block represents the results of a player's drawing of tiles. The first line corresponds to both players drawing one tile to see who starts. The letter L is closest to the beginning of the alphabet so player #2 goes first. The second line documents both players drawing their starting seven tiles. All subsequent lines document which tiles each player drew after completing their play. While proper nouns cannot be used normally in Scrabble, the accompanying log clue implies that the word SANTA is used in this game. Once re-engineered, the final playing board spells out the next clue location.

STATE ROUTE EIGHTEEN SKY FOREST SANTA VILLAGE GINGERBREAD HOUSE NEAR ROAD

As it turned out, this puzzle was much more time consuming than expected…

                             
                             
V                            
I               H       S    
L             O R E S T    
L     E         U       A    
A     I         S       T    
G I N G E R B R E A D   E    
E     H   O   O              
      T   A   U              
      E   D   T              
      E       E              
  S A N T A                  
  K                          
  Y                          

Drew Holder Word Points Ltr1 Ltr2 Ltr3 Ltr4 Ltr5 Ltr6 Ltr7
READPQX READPQX READ 10 R E A D      
BGINERH BGINERH BREAD 8 B            
SHUT PQXSHUT USE 4 S E          
G GINERH GINGERBREAD 54 G I N G E R  
FO PQXTHFO HOUSE 8 H O          
EITEUY HEITEUY EIGHT 9 E I H T      
RE PQXTFRE FORE 14 F R E        
ENAE EUYENAE EIGHTEEN 24 E E N        
SST PQXTSST FOREST 9 S T          
OTZ UYAEOTZ ROUTE 6 O U T E      
AA SPQXTAA ANT 6 A T          
EYST YAZEYST AGE 4 A E          
LV SPQXALV SANTA 5 S A          
KA YZYSTKA SKY 20 K Y          
IL PQXVLIL VILLAGE 12 V I L L      
ER YZSTAER STATE 6 S T A E      
OADW PQXOADW ROAD 7 A O D        
NAWV YZRNAWV NEAR 6 N A R        
URD PQXWFIN                  
ONE YZWVISH                  



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