We have already placed two sudoku puzzles in Hartman Creek State Park. The "fake" coordinates for those are shown as being in park lakes. When a Madison-area cacher, rcflyer2242, noticed this, he contacted us to let us know that there were a few more lakes in the park that needed "blue questions marks" in them. He had a request for those puzzle caches, if we were to put any out: No More Sudoku. Coincidently, that's the name of a tough puzzle cache rcflyer2242 has put out in his neighborhood: GC2R9M1
The Madison-area cache is a KenKen puzzle. We can't really call it that, though, because someone has the rights to the "KenKen" name, so these are called mathdoku puzzles or calcudoku puzzles (but they're really KenKen puzzles). In case you haven't run across one before, we've listed some of the directions you might want to know about the puzzle. Once you solve the puzzle, you will see numbers in the boxes that have the letters A-K (no I) in them in the grid. Put those numbers in place of the corresponding letters in the red-colored coordinates shown right above the grid, then find the cache container at those coordinates. It's just that easy! If you don't think so, send a note to rcflyer2242, and tell him "NO MORE KENKEN!"
Some directions for solving this puzzle and others similar to it:
- Fill the whole 9x9 grid, one digit per square.
- Use the digits 1-9 so that there is one and only one of each digit in each column and each row.
- An outlined box can contain a repeat of a digit as long as they are not in the same row or column.
- Within each box, place chosen digits so that they give the indicated number for the box by using the indicated operation. ( + is add; - is subtract; * is multiply; / is divide )
- Click here for a link to a simple tutorial.
N 44 AB.CDE W 089 FG.HJK
For more accurate coordinates, add 7 to the north of your verified solve and add 8 to the west of your verified solve. See the owner maintenance log note of 9/4/2019 for more information.
The Geocache Notification Form has been submitted to Park Manager Michael D. Bergum of the Wisconsin DNR. Geocaches placed on Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource managed lands require permission by means of a notification form. Please print out a paper copy of the notification form, fill in all required information, then submit it to the land manager. The DNR Notification form and land manager information can be obtained by looking at this page on the WGA website.