GAG12 Gnome’s Bluelamb03 Pre-4K ODS Puzzle Cache Mystery Cache
MAPSIT: I think this one has had its run, so I'll free up the space
GAG12 Gnome’s Bluelamb03 Pre-4K ODS Puzzle Cache
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GAG12 Gnome’s Bluelamb03 Pre-4K O.D.S. Puzzle Cache
The cache is not at the posted coordinates. To calculate the actual coordinates, you’ll have to solve the puzzle.
Having fallen somewhat below my goal of putting out a cache for every one hundred I’ve found, I was, inspired by CaveCats’ delightful puzzles, looking for puzzle ideas that might work well. You see, I wanted to contribute to the GAG12 event, so it really should be a gnome-themed cache as an expression of gratitude to Tick and Nammy. Plus, I wanted to do something about Bluelamb03’s upcoming cache #4000 before everyone else places a tribute cache. As well, having visited The Burrow’s O.D.S. cache, I felt I really should contribute to the laudable goals of the One Degree of Separation exercise. So, lazy fellow that I can be, I decided to combine them all. Hence, this cache is GAG12 Gnome’s Bluelamb03 Pre-4K O.D.S. Puzzle Cache.
Eventually, in the course of my researches, I came across a really neat number (base 10), one that describes itself. It’s ten digits long, and the digit in any given position (using a radix of zero, counting from the left) gives the number of times that the value of its position appears in the number itself. Thus, for example, if the fourth digit in this special number (its position thus corresponding to the value 3, since 3 is the fourth element of the string of positions ‘0123456789’) were a 2, it would indicate that the number itself contained the digit 3 in 2 different positions across its ten digits. So the number/string is a sort of self-descriptive number. Cool, eh?
To calculate the cache location, just take the first three digits from this special number (once you’ve figured it out), and subtract them as milli-minutes from the cache’s posted latitude and longitude coordinates. Computationally, it’s a piece of cake, as is appropriate for event caches. I’ve even made sure that there’s a trail to get you within a 30 meter flat-terrain bushwhack of the cache, with on-road parking at the trailhead.
The cache container is a small, camo duct-taped, plastic container with a suspension cord. I’ve included an unregistered geocoin as the FTF prize, and the usual assortment of inexpensive trade goods to start things off for an event that will have a lot of young geocachers.
Aren’t you glad I didn’t pose this puzzle in base 11? :-)
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