Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.
After I solved Salimonyous' difficult Engineer puzzle, he suggested I make a puzzle cache. So this is his fault.
This is my attempt at an evil, evil puzzle based cache, reminiscent of the Calculatrivia puzzles by Robert Lodge in Games magazine. It's not QUITE that level of evil, but... well, see for yourself.
First, solve for each of the following variables:
A = ITU calling code of the country of the youngest daughter of the father of the father of the father of the mother of father of the Prince of Wales (as of 7/29/25)
B = The year of birth of the composer of the theme that was the subject of the first piano variation by the composer whose daughter married the composer who wrote a funeral symphony for the composer of the subject of Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses.
C = The minimum number of moves a chess knight placed at Hydrogen on the periodic table would take to reach the square of the only element named after the same location as the element used to make the dowels in Carl Sagan's Contact that is not a Lanthanide or Actinide.
D = The age at death of the presidential candidate who received the next-most electoral votes for president after the president who had the next shortest term in office after the president who was the next-youngest at inauguration after the second-tallest president. ("Next X after” means the person just above someone in a list ranked lowest to highest by X)
E = 69 less than the NGC number of the object found on a 10x11 grid of all Messier objects at the intersection of the line connecting NGC 5904 and NGC 3379 and the line connecting the Andromeda Galaxy and WNC 4.
F = One less than the number of letters in the capital city of the country that shares the first three letters with the country that is the next country east of the country which is the second country east of the country that shares the first and last letters with the second country east of the smallest country on the African mainland.
G = 43 less than the height in feet of the tallest work by the artist whose signature style was named by the artist seen playing chess in a short film with the artist who was married in a double ceremony with another groom whose alter ego was a bird named Loplop. (Various heights can be found online. Use the one given on the artist's official website.)
H = The number of letters in the common name of the species of the protagonist of the game that ranks just above the first game produced by the video game developer founded by the primary writer of Grim Fandango on videogamer.com's list of the Best Games of the Noughties.
I = The wavelength, in microns, of electromagnetic radiation with a frequency of \({F ⋅e ⋅ k ⋅ R_\infty\over N_A ⋅ h}\) where
- \(F\) = Faraday Constant
- \(e\) = elementary charge
- \(k\) = Coulomb's constant
- \(R_\infty\ \)= Rydberg constant
- \(N_A\) = Avogadro's number
- \(h\) = Planck's constant (unreduced)
Round your answer to the nearest micron and round to three significant figures for each constant. Watch your units and your exponents!
Once you have all of the numbers, finding the coordinates is easy!* Just plug them into the following two equations, observing the standard order of operations:
*note: not actually easy
The cache is located at N42° xx.xxx' and W084° yy.yyy.'
Enjoy!
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