Cole Glee Box and the Three Fears – Too Small Mystery Cache

This two stage puzzle cache is hidden within the Cole Marsh property of the Derry (NH) Conservation Commission. Solve the puzzle and visit the 1st Stage nano at the above coordinates to find the Final Stage .30-cal ammo box.

The property is a 283-acre conservation area with scenic trails crossing a varied New England countryside habitat. It includes mixed woodland, bridged streams, marshes, and small ponds with all the expected critters. The listed coordinates mark the eastern trail head parking at the end of Valley Road in Hampstead, for both this and several other hides in the area. This cache is one of four we placed here as part of our Cole Glee Box and the Three Fears Series.

We believe the logic puzzle would be rated as intermediate in a puzzle book and the two stage multi is straight forward. The difficulty rating of 4 is due to the 1st Stage being a nano in the woods and the hybrid nature of the cache. We encourage honest commentary, especially from puzzle cachers, on that rating or anything else you may deem helpful in honing our puzzle cache deployment(s).

We have attached a homemade nano log rewinding tool onto the 1st Stage container to help with getting the tiny clue back into its tight fitting container. We truly wish this evil container was larger, like a Bison Tube or a matchstick safe, but that sad tale follows.

Mrs H Winning the nano
at Cookie Crumbles 3.


Hide the awarded cache
or join this guy!

Devil container supplier, trainlove
playing it coy at Coookie Crumbles 3.

The Rest of the Story:

While attending our first geocaching event, Cookie Crumbles 3 (GC1634X) by meandmydogs and spikester1, Mrs. haverood received a nano cache container donated by trainlove as a door prize! Although we prefer classic hides and never considered placing a micro, the host of this event, promised to haunt recipients taking more than a month to deploy an awarded cache container. Since that was six months ago, we figured it might be best to get this little devil deployed before the Cookie Crumbles 4 event gets posted!

Most folks would not appreciate this style container showing up in their cleared radius, but many hiders in the Derry, NH vicinity seem to have a zeal for stashing Micros in the woods, along with Multi-stagers and Mystery/Puzzle types. We thought, with all this enthusiasm for our Three Fears, why not combine all these elements into one fun filled Rockingham County honoree roast cache right in Derry! As a bonus, deploying this type of evil cache would allow us to avoid a joyless micro log and a logic puzzle might extend the pleasure of the FTF hunt for the many area seekers coveting that elusive prize. Best of all, we would escape the Ghost of Cache Meets Past!

We did manage to retain some dignity by adhering to a few old school methods by making the 1st Stage a trail head parking marker and placing a .30-cal ammo box for the Final Stage hidden along a hike that passes through scenic beaver and deer habitat. We hope you find your patience Just Right, instead of Too Small, while working this puzzler!

The Disclaimer:

All references to people, vehicles, activities, and/or municipalities appearing in the following puzzle are fictitious. Any resemblance to real cachers, travelers, hides, events, or places; whether number hounds, evil deployers, virtually discovered, multiply attended, active, inactive, disabled, archived, with strip mall LPCs, and/or without sidewalks is purely an act of the muse Thalia. No live hamsters were harmed, nor were any goats sacrificed in deploying this cache.

The Puzzle:

The Annual Rocking Horse County TB Discovery Meet is a weekend geocaching event held at the Rocking Horse County ATV Speedway. The organizers bestow crowns in two categories for their King Cole Temporary Cache Competition. The Northern Crown goes to the cacher with the most finds from the meet's temporary hides and the Western Crown goes to the cacher with the most FTFs from those finds.

This year's competition was fierce, but there were no ties among the four entrants, which consisted of PickledPeppers, Pruny1, Relative Magnitude, and YAH1GHN3SS. Each entrant drove their custom cache mobile to its reserved spot at the trail head starting line at the beginning of the Rocking Horse County ATV Speedway. Those spots were occupied by a Yellow Muggler SUV, a White Rebus Convertible, a Green Wrecker Vehicle, and a Red Commoner 4X4. Each of these vehicles had a different residents only dump privilege sticker legally issued from among the towns of Dreary, Salami, Sundown, and Windy.

Officials were brought in from outside the county. Making the temporary 35 mm film can cache drops and flagging competition irregularities would be JustDucky from Muckymuck, Wily Hubbub from South of the Border, and Head Official SlapShot from Hillbilly. Being micro in the woods multistage puzzle aficionados, the judges decided to have a little fun with the organizers when releasing the results. They issued a partial listing from the event's activities as clues to an evil multi stage logic puzzle cache that needs solving in order to glean the results of the King Cole Temporary Cache Competitions. Good luck finding the results and the hide!

Annual Rocking Horse County TB Discovery Meet

Printable Logic Table
(Click to enlarge)


Printable Solution Tables
and Clue List
(Click to enlarge)

Partial Temporary Cache Competition Results

1. The Northern Crown winner had 66 Finds, but only 13 of those were FTFs.
2. The Yellow Muggler SUV owner had 12 more Finds than Pruny1.
3. The Dreary entrant had 12 fewer Finds than the Green Wrecker Vehicle cacher.
4. Relative Magnitude was runner-up in the Northern Crown contest.
5. The owner of the Red Commoner 4X4 was 3rd in Finds and had 16 FTFs.
6. The combined total of Finds for the Northern Crown contest was 192.
7. The White Rebus Convertible is from Salami and is not owned by Pruny1.
8. The Western Crown winner earned an FTF on all their Finds.
9. Only 7 of the event hides went undiscovered by every contestant.
10. The Dreary resident bested the 30 Finds of YAH1GHN3SS.
11. The cache mobile from Sundown does not belong to PickledPeppers.
12. The Northern Champ only missed 5 hides that others had found.

Determining the Final Stage Cache Coordinates

• From the twelve clues above, complete the event's Temporary Cache Competition Results Table.
• Each row of the Temporary Cache Competition Results Table contributes one double digit value from either the Northern Crown or Western Crown column toward the Final Stage coordinates. Deduce these six values and apply them to secret numbers A, B, C, D, E, and F.
• Find the clue placed within the 1st Stage container.
• Plug the six secret numbers of A, B, C, D, E, and F into the clue to obtain the Final Stage coordinates.

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