Needlessly Complicached (Canterbury)
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An exercise in making the simple extremely complicated. I have long been fascinated by the huge calculations and observations needed by the old offset and the new multi caches. Hopefully this cache is one that will be either annoying in the extreme or satisfying to get out of the way. Either way it is huge.
Located at a rest stop opposite a permanent “Driver Reviver” coffee outlet – a superb concept. So get out your tools – calculator, abacus, laptop, PDA, fingers, wander across the road and grab a reviving caffeine and then wrap your patient grey matter around this cache. Maybe get two coffees.
ALWAYS use whole numbers – some calculations may need rounding up or down after the calculation. The rounding will always be obvious. There should be minimal spelling mistakes if you are asked to look for a word in the lists – some may not exist (hint hint).
You are looking for a 200ml snaplock camo container, with a few swaps, a FTF coin that must stay where it is and a new unactivated thrill of the hunt coin for the first finder.
Congratulations Bitsprayer, FTF and enjoy the coin.
Read the sheets in the information kiosk and each list will provide a coordinate. You are looking for:
S ZY XW.VUT
E SRQ ON.MLK
And once you have disentangled the clues and got the new coodinates, the cache is approximately 12 meters West, at the base of our favourite - the worlds largest lily.
ART AND CRAFT
This provides the first two digits of the Southern coordinates.
Subtract Johns phone number from Audreys.
Divide this by the number of “A”’s in the entire arts and crafts sheet. Round this to the nearest whole number. This is A
Then count the number of letters in Allisons business name, and find the longest address that has this number as its first digits. Divide the number in this address by the number of different letters used in Denises full name.
Add these two digits together and deduct the number of listings twice. This is B
Deduct B from A.
This is ZY.
DINING
These will steer you to the second two digits of the Southern coordinate
You are looking for 8 numbers to manipulate later.
The first is the most common number in the addresses. One digit.
The second is using the photo of the museum. Count the number of letters in each word, add these numbers together, deduct the number of aeroplanes in the photo from this total and then divide it by two. 2 digits.
The third number – where does riverside café come on the list? 1 digit.
Fourth number – how many number 1’s in the phone numbers? Subtract from this the number of establishments that have two lines of details, and then add the number of establishments that have more than two lines in their details to this. 1 digit.
Fifth number uses the two addresses with letters in their numbers - subtract the smaller from the larger, and then divide by twice the amount of establishments with addresses on Streets. 1 digit.
Sixth number is the number of letters in the only business name with an ampersand in it – don’t count the ampersand. 2 digits.
Seventh number is the number of address without letters in the numbers.
Eighth number is the number of businesses that have a C in their name.
Take these 8 numbers and number the alphabet (1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C etc.) and matching these 8 nmbers to letters spells the clue for the two four letter words you want. These give you the next two digits. We shall call these XW.
ATTRACTIONS
This is for the last three digits of the south coordinates.
Take the total number of legs of the three animals mentioned in the business names, divide this by the total number of businesses, then multiply this by the number of times Talbot is mentioned, and add to this the number of times the letter O appears in the 4th business name and address down the right hand side. This is the first digit.
How many lines of information are there on two lists? Not counting the title line. Divide this by the number of letters in the business on highway 79, multiply this by the number of different area codes in the phone numbers, and then divide this by the sum of the number of businesses divided by the total number of letters making up the top left business name. This is the second number.
To make things easy, the third number is simply the most common phone digit in the list of numbers on the left.
These are VUT
ACTIVITIES
This is for the first 3 digits of the East coordinates
Count every number and letter in the sheet, including the x in 4x4 but exclude brackets and punctuation..
This will be a 3 digit number (sorry).
Split this into 3 separate numbers. These are the basis of the coordinates.
From the first number, deduct the sum of this calculation – count the number of letters in the first address with a street name, then divide this by the number of letters in the second street name.
To adjust the second number, deduct the sum of this observation. Take the free call number for Rangitata rafts, add each group of digits (there are 3 groups), work out the number of different digits generated from this, and use this number for the deduction.
To adjust the third number, deduct the sum of this calculation: Take the number of letters in the longest business name, divide this by one of the digits generated in the free call number exercise above (you will know which one), and then divide this again by the number of letters in the shortest word in the piece.
These numbers are SRQ
HOLIDAY PARKS AND BACKPACKERS / MOTELS
The second digits of the East coordinates.
First digit can be generated from adding all of the street numbers in the addresses, then adding the three digits of this number together, subtract the number of holiday parks from this figure, and then divide this by the number of peaks mentioned in one of the business names, and add to this last number the number of times the word parks is used in the entire list.
The second digit is created by adding the number of letters in the business names together, this creates a three number sequence. Take the fourth number that would be in this sequence and halve it. This is the second digit.
These are ON
ACCOMODATION
The last three digits of the East coordinates
Count the number of bed and breakfast businesses, and divide this by the number of different types of acomodation identified at the top. Multiply this by the sum of the last digit of every phone number. Add the three digits of the number generated by this together, and divide by the number of “e”’s in the location of the second business down the right hand side.
The second digit is from the number of times the word road appears, multiplied by the number of times the word beds appears, and then add to it the most common digit appearing in the Cox Street address.
The third digit is the number of times the word accommodation appears, and divide this into the first state highway mentioned (SH_ _), then use the number that is closest to the square root of this number.
This is MLK.
After that, move to the coordinates and the rest is easy.
If you have any problems, feel free to email for advice, but i got lost part way through South. Enjoy.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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