This is cache number two in our Classics series.
The others in this series can be found at the following links:
"Merely This and Nothing More...."
"Baker Street Memoir"
"I'll Seek a Readier Path!"
"The End"
"The Voices Among the Trees"
The cache is not at the above listed coordinates.
In order to find the cache, you must use your logic skills and help Alice solve the riddles proposed by the crafty Cheshire Cat.
“Well!” thought Alice to herself. “After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs!”
Suddenly, a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. Alice was surprised to hear the rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” The rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on. The rabbit was in such a hurry, obviously late, that he did not realize dropping a small piece of paper from his waistcoat-pocket when taking out his watch. Alice called out to the rabbit, but in an instant, he vanished from sight.
Alice picked up the piece of paper, being damp from falling into a small puddle, and examined it. “It’s an invitation to a party!” exclaimed Alice.
“I would love to attend a party,” exclaimed Alice, “but the ink has been smeared and I do not know the location. I would go “If One Only Knew the Right Way!”
“I can help you find the party!”
Alice was a little startled seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on the bough of a tree a few yards off.
“Cheshire Puss,” she began, rather timidly, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
”I would much like to go to the party,” said Alice.
“Well then,” said the Cat, “To get the missing numbers on the invitation, you must answer me the following riddles.”
1. You are walking through the Garden of Live Flowers. One of the flowers says to you "How many flowers are we if all of us are roses except two, all of us are tulips except two, and all of us are daisies except two?
2. If you took 5 chocolates from a box which contained 21 chocolates, how many chocolates would you have?
3. 300 years ago there lived a king of ill heart and much pride. He had a daughter, whom he had promised to a rich neighbor, but she had a different plan: she fell in love with a plain lad, a blacksmith named Haigha. The lovers tried to run to the mountains but were caught.
Angered, the king decided to execute Haigha. However, to not appear as a cruel tyrant before his daughter and the people, and to show the blacksmith as intellectually unworthy for marriage to royalty, he let Haigha decide his own execution based on his wits. The next day he had Haigha placed in a room with nine doors. Each door led to a single room. One of the rooms contained the princess while the rest of the rooms were either empty or contained a tiger. Above each door was a sign.
Here's a list of the signs:
· Room 1: The lady is in an odd-numbered room.
· Room 2: This room is empty.
· Room 3: Either sign on Room 5 is right or sign on Room 7 is wrong.
· Room 4: Sign on Room 1 is wrong.
· Room 5: Either sign on Room 2 or sign on Room 4 is right.
· Room 6: Sign on Room 3 is wrong.
· Room 7: The lady is not in Room 1.
· Room 8: This room has a tiger and Room 9 is empty.
· Room 9: This room has a tiger and sign on Room 6 is wrong.
The king told Haigha, "The sign on the door of the room containing the princess is true; the signs on the doors of all the rooms containing the tigers are false; while those on the empty rooms can be either true or false."
The king even gave Haigha a hint and told him whether Room 8 was empty or not. If Haigha would be intelligent worthy, he should be able to find the princess. Haigha could then open doors until he finds the princess or a tiger and his death.
Behind which door is the princess?
4. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
5. At the market, the Queen of Hearts buys eight tarts for 26 cents, how many can she buy for a cent and a quarter?
6. How many cookies can you, Alice, eat on an empty stomach?
7. I'm thinking of a number. Three times that number is no larger than twice that number. What number is it?
8. A snail creeps 3 feet up a wall during the daytime. After all the labor it does throughout the day, it stops to rest a while... but falls asleep!! The next morning it wakes up and discovers that it has slipped down 1 foot while sleeping.
If this happens every day, how many days will the snail take to reach the top of a wall 15 feet in height?
Alice sat in deep thought for quite a while pondering the riddles put forth to her. Suddenly she leapt up, "I've got it! Thank you very much for showing me the way."
With that, the Cat began to vanish quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!"
Alice stuffed the invitation securely in her apron and set out for the party wondering who else would be joining her there.
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The cache is a smaller ammo can painted black with a white Geocaching symbol on each side.
It is full of really good trade items.
Hope you have a good time with this cache.
Good Luck!