Three Hunters
Three friends were hunting. Two of them, while fording a small
stream, got their cartridge cases wet. The three friends divided
what good cartridges remained equally.
After each had fired four shots, the total cartridges remaining
were equal to the number each had after the division.
How many cartridges were divided?
How Old is Josh?
A long time ago, when skyscrapers weren't as tall as they are
now, Great Uncle Josh was in town and got a kink in his neck trying
to count the floors of the Stratosphere Building. However, he
evolved a neat little problem out of his experience, which he
sprang in his hometown barber shop, as follows:
"My years are greater by twenty-one than double the number of
floors in the skyscraper, and if you will multiply one-tenth of my
years by one-quarter the number of floors, the result will be my
wife's age, and she admits to having lived only four-fifths of my
time on earth."
How old is Great Uncle Josh?
Trains Meeting
Two freight trains, each 1/6 mile long and traveling 60 miles
per hour, meet and pass each other. How many seconds is it between
when the locomotives pass each other and the cabooses pass each
other?
Let:
- Number of cartridges = AB
- Josh's age = CD
- Time for cabooses to pass each other = EF seconds
The cache is located in St. Clair Brooks Park in southern Stafford
County. The cache coordinates are:
Substitute the answers to the problems for the letters to decode
the coordinates. Note: You do not have to climb any steep hills
to get to the cache.
Original one-gallon Rubbermaid Cache contains:
- Log book with pencil and sharpener (of course)
- FTF Prize - Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd (no, you won't
find the answers to these puzzzles here)
- Seek & Find Puzzle Book
- Scan & Find Puzzle Book
- Mind Magic Peg Puzzle
- Starburst Peg Puzzle
- Annoying Wooden Puzzle
- Another Annoying Wooden Puzzle
- 2005 geocaching.com Calendar
- Rubik's Travel Bug
- Rodney Copperbottom Travel Bug
If you can, please try to keep the puzzle theme when you log the
cache.
While you're in the park, check out the orienteering course,
which starts at 38° 19.256, -077° 27.863. Or you can try to find
the letterbox hidden in park if your GPSr batteries die.
UPDATE: 1 January 2006:
Replaced missing container and log book. New cache contents:
- Log book with pen.
- Toy robot gladiator.
- Dinosaur (also toy).
- Jacks and ball set.
- Wooden Tic-Tac-Toe game.
- Scary skull with Hot Wheels car inside.
- Snowmen stamp pin.