A small camo painted screwtop containing a log sheet, pencil and pencil sharpener. The hide itself is easy enough, you just need to figure out where to go. Solve the crossword to find the cache! The puzzle grid is also in the image gallery below. Insert the answers to the following clues and tally the number of times each letter is used to complete the maths questions. Then it's just a matter of a short walk and voila!
ACROSS
1 How I often feel approaching a Grandalf puzzle cache
5 First to find (abbr.)
6 Strappy leaved plant often containing a cache
7 A type of trackable
11 Is there a cache on every _____ on the Port Hills?
12 The smallest caches are ____
13 A type of cache with no container, email the owner
16 Cache in trash out (abbr)
17 Another word for hike
DOWN
1 A type of tree lily, like agave, yucca, and dracaena. Their tufted heads are familiar beacons in New Zealand landscapes.
2 Many cachers get an ____ to go out when a new cache is published
3 The feeling you get when you've completed a difficult cache
4 How you look lurking in playground bushes
8 You're solving this crossword to find a _____
9 The "G" in GPS
10 A word for a paved version of
11 Across 14 If it's not in
6 Across or 1 Down it must be under a ____
15 Tarn View cache has a nice ___ right at the cache site.
The cache is at S43 34.ABC E172 38.DEF
Note: You need to count from your completed grid, don't write out a list of answers and count from there.
A= Number of As in the answers minus number of Ks
B= Number of Bs
C= Number of Cs plus the number of Xs
D= Number of Ds plus the number of Ss
E= Number of Es plus the number of Ys
F= Number of Fs plus the number of Bs
When hidden the coordinates were up to 4 metres out due, I suspect, to the proximity of the hillside. It should still be pretty obvious where to look.
