Win the Lottery! - CC #1 Mystery Cache
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Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates, those are just suggested parking coordinates.
About the CC series: CC stands for Couch Cache, and it's a series of puzzle caches requiring your brains instead of your body. They're meant to keep you busy during those yucky, rainy, stormy, cold, windy, snowy days, limiting the time you actually need to spend outside. The actual caches are relatively unspectacular micro hides. Solving the puzzle will always directly give you the required cache coordinates.
Ever dreamt of winning the lottery? Well, here's your chance!
You have just invented a device which allows you to retrieve pieces of information from the future. Howver, it is still a beta version, so you can only use it to get information about a week ahead of time, and only a few small bits of information per week.
Since you always wanted to be rich, you instruct the device to get you the lottery numbers for the next drawing of the 6/49 lottery. Unfortunately 6 numbers at the same time is too much information for the machine, and it just spits out an error.
Being a smart cookie, you try and ask the device for the sum of the 6 lottery numbers. The machine starts rattling, and voila - spits out a piece of paper with a number on it. Looking at the number, you start to realize your mistake: There's got to be thousands of possible number combinations that yield this particular sum!
Luckily the machine is also quite smart and feels your despair. It starts working again and spits out some more information: It tells you that if you figure out exactly how many possible number combinations there are (from 6 out of 49 numbers) to yield this particular sum, and then multiply this number with the sum on the paper, it will yield a new number of around one million, and you will also get the same number if you multiply all 6 lottery numbers with each other.
After that, the machine went silent.
Now you need to figure out those 6 numbers! Rest assured that this is enough information to find a single set of 6 winning numbers for the lottery.
How to find the cache: Take the 6 numbers you got and call them A, B, C, D, E and F, in ascending order (that is, the smallest number will be A, and so on). Now some simple maths:
N = (C * F) + B
W = (D * F) - (A * B) + 1
Cache is at: N 43° 28.N' W 80° 32.W'
Edit December 2013: The cache had to be moved slightly. To obtain the new coordinates, add 10 to your N coordinates and add 15 to your W coordinates.
Please re-hide the cache carefully the same way as you found it. At times the area is highly muggled, so be careful!
Good luck!
Congratulations to the first finders:
FTF: geocite
2TF: Zorkmid
3TF: Sargents
Additional Hints
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