Eight soldiers are hidden in the coppice. Each soldier can see along the horizontal, vertical and diagonal line from the dot which they are on. No two soldiers can see each other. Place the eight soldiers on the grid following the rules above and you'll be able to use the numbers which are linked to the letters to work out the coordinates using the fomula below. The letter without a soldier should be counted as 0 when put in the formula. The cache is within walking distance of the car park coords so if the coordinates you come up with are a lot further away, try rotating the shape that's made :)
N 53 (C+C) (E*A) . (H*D*B-D+I) + (F*D*I+C)
W 002 (F+I) . (B*B-A) (G+I+C*C)
Note:These have changed The final cache is a small lock N lock box in a camo bag with the usual swaps!
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
We would appreciate some feedback for the difficulty rating, we're not sure if 3 is too high or too low, let us know! To start with, we won't offer any hints until a few people have found it, however if people are having real trouble and noone finding it, we'll have to look at this policy again :)
The cache is well hidden, a number of cachers have had some trouble finding, but be assured it is there.
