Pickle Pot (Kapiti Coast) Mystery Cache
Pickle Pot (Kapiti Coast)
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The Pickle Pot is a natural ampitheatre in QEII park that
has hosted a number of events. The coordinates will take you to one
of the entrances to the pickle pot where you are welcome to get
into a pickle and hopefully eventually locate the cache which is
within walking distance of you current predicament.
The fifth of my caches using the Te Araroa (The Long
Pathway) through Queen Elizabeth II park.
The cache is best approached from parking area from the
South entrance to the park. However it can be approached from the
North if you have been following the caches along the pathway from
that direction. The choice is yours.
If approaching from the South you may like to continue
North to find Taupata Grove and Harekeke Views further along the Te
Araroa pathway.
Please make sure you check for approaching muggles and
replace cache securely.
So what does the dictionary say about "Pickle" and "Pot" ?
Noun
1. (often pl) food, esp. vegetables preserved in vinegar or
brine
2. a liquid or marinade, such as spiced vinegar, for preserving
vegetables, meat, or fish
3. Informal an awkward or difficult situation: to be in a pickle,
they are in a pickle over what to do with a caching puzzle
[Middle English pikle, highly seasoned sauce, probably from Middle
Dutch pekel, pickle, brine.]
Word History: Trade with the Low Countries across the North Sea
was important to England in
the later Middle Ages, and it is perhaps because of this trade that
we have the word pickle. Middle English pikel, the ancestor of our
word, is first recorded around 1400 with the meaning "a spicy sauce
or gravy served with meat or fowl." This is a different sense from
the one the word brings to mind now, but it is somewhat related in
sense to its possible Middle Dutch source pekel, a solution, such
as spiced brine, for preserving and flavoring food. After coming
into English the word pickle expanded its sense range in several
ways. It was applied, as it had been in Middle Dutch, to a pickling
solution. Later pickle was used to refer to something so treated,
such as a cucumber. The word also took on a figurative sense, "a
troublesome situation," perhaps under the influence of a similar
Dutch usage in the phrase in de pekel zitten, "sit in the pickle,"
and iemand in de pekel laten zitten, "let someone sit in the
pickle."
So go and sit in the middle of the pot.
Noun
1. a round deep container, often with a handle and lid, used for
cooking
2. the amount that a pot will hold
3. short for flowerpot or teapot
4. a handmade piece of pottery
5. Billiards etc. a shot by which a ball is pocketed
6. a chamber pot
7. the money in the pool in gambling games
8. (often pl) Informal a large sum of money
9. Informal a cup or other trophy
10. go to pot to go to ruin when you can’t solve a caching
problem
[Middle English, from Old English pott, from Vulgar Latin
*pottus.]
No it’s not 101 Dalmations but just a couple of words made from
dominoes. Each letter of each word has a number of “spots” (dots)on
that letter. Total up the spots (dots) on each letter to help you
solve the puzzle below which will lead you to the cache at the
following co-ordinates. There is parking close to the final cache
site and GZ can be found within easy walking distance from the
parking.
A = ‘L’ minus ‘I’
B = Second digit of second ‘P’
C = ‘C’ minus ‘I’
D = (‘K’ + ‘L’) minus (‘T’ * 4)
E = (‘E’ + ‘K’+2) minus (‘I’ + ‘K’)
V = One quarter of ‘I’
W = Second digit of number of dots on ‘E’
X = One more than last digit of sum of all dots on all
dominoes
Y = One third of half the second ‘P’
Z = Number of letters with number of dots that total between 20
and 29 minus 1
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Uvag 1 Qba’g trg va n cvpxyr bire guvf pnpur
Uvag 2 Arfgyrq nobir tebhaq yriry
Uvag 3 Fxl vf ivfvoyr nobir gur pnpur
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