Hours: By appointment only.
Admission: Free
Phone: 319-233-4974
Permission to place this cache has been given by the property
owner and by the Bennington School No. 4 Board of Directors. Enjoy
this historic site!
To find this cache, you'll have to pass your lessons in each of
the three R's - Reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Use the clues you
gather in Reading and 'riting to determine the coordinates. The
calculation you do in 'rithmetic will give you the combination to
the lock on the cache. The cache is in a fairly large plastic
container covered in camo tape. There's a Science Magnet set for
the FTF prize and some other school-related trinkets. Please be
sure to lock and seal everything back up when you're done.
"Students, do your homework before attempting to find the
cache. Class is now in session!"
Reading (and a little logic)
A butcher goes to the market with $100 cash. He has to buy
exactly 100 animals. There are cows, geese and chickens for sale. A
cow costs $15, a goose is $1 and a chicken costs $0.25. He has to
buy at least one of each animal and has to spend all his money.
What does the butcher buy? Use the number of chickens -
10 as the values for XX in the coordinates below.
'riting
Solve the crossword puzzle, then convert the letters in the
red-outlined boxes into their corresponding numbers using the
letter conversion table below.
| ACROSS |
| 3 |
|
Bring an apple for the
___________ |
| 4 |
|
A short, surprise
review |
| 7 |
|
Holds your sandwich,
carrots, and cookie |
| 8 |
|
2 + 2 = 4 |
| 10 |
|
Children's competition
involving words |
| 13 |
|
Every kid's favorite
"subject"! |
| 15 |
|
Where students sit in
class to do their work | |
|
| DOWN |
| 1 |
|
Do this tonight, turn it
in tomorrow |
| 2 |
|
A measuring
instrument |
| 5 |
|
Given at the end of a
chapter |
| 6 |
|
"Come up to the
__________ and show your work." |
| 9 |
|
There's one of these for
each subject |
| 11 |
|
Pounding causes lots of
dust |
| 12 |
|
Chew on this while
thinking |
| 14 |
|
Used instead of paper in
the "old days" | |
Solve the crossword puzzle, then alphabetize all of the
red-boxed letters and write them in alphabetical order in the top
row of the table below. Translate the letter to the corresponding
number in the table and replace the letters in the Cache
Coordinates with the correct numbers.
| Letter Conversion Table |
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| 3 |
8 |
2 |
5 |
9 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
1 |
7 |
4 |
9 |
8 |
Cache Coordinates
N QC AD.RBS
W GEK MP.LXX
You can check your answers for the first two puzzles (cache
coordinates) on
Geochecker.com.
'rithmetic
The answer to the final puzzle will give you the combination
to the lock on the cache. The lock has 3 reels so your answer
will be a three digit number.
- The digits total 13
- The last reel is bigger than the first reel
- Reel B times the first reel = 12
- The largest and smallest digits have a difference of
4