After an extended day, you head to your native bar for a few drinks. Halfway by means of your second beer, a reasonably woman walks as much as you and factors to the empty chair subsequent to you. “Is this seat taken?” she asks sweetly.

“No, by no means,” you reply.

She sits down, and after a quick chat, the 2 of you rapidly bond over a mutual love of puzzles. Before lengthy, you’re employed up the braveness to ask for her cellphone quantity. The woman takes out a bit of paper and a pen and begins writing one thing down, however when she passes the paper to you, as a substitute of a cellphone quantity, there may be the next:

“You seem to be a wise man,” she says. “You ought to be capable to work this out in 5 minutes.” She offers you a flirty wink, then will get up and walks away, leaving you equal components enamored and baffled. You’re sure her quantity is of the usual American format, (xxx)-xxx-xxxx, however she would not appear to have given you a lot else to go on.

Determined to determine it out, you down the remainder of your beer, pull out a pen and paper of your individual, and set to work making an attempt to crack the puzzle…

What is the girl’s cellphone quantity? BONUS QUESTION: Which state is she from?

Hint:

Play shut consideration to the woman’s parting comment: “You ought to be capable to work this out in 5 minutes.” There’s an vital trace in there someplace.