To find the cache's location, you'll need to solve the Sudoku-like
puzzle below:
Here's how it works. You need to put one letter in each of
the
64 squares of the grid above so that:
1. The letters shown to the right of each row are an
alphabetical list of the letters in that row.
2. The letters shown below each column are an alphabetical
list
of the letters in that column.
3. For each of the 14 'cages', defined by the thick black
lines,
the letters in the cage can be arranged to form a common
English
word. (At least, it's common among geocachers.)
(Note for people familiar with Sudoku puzzles: You
are
allowed to use a letter more than once in a cage, as long as
the
occurrences are not in the same row or column.)
I've filled in some letters to get you started. When
you've
figured out all the words, you can arrange them to form two
sentences which describe the cache location. Adjacent words in
the
description come from cages which share part of their
boundaries,
and the first word comes from the top left cage.
You can validate your puzzle solution
with certitude.
Once you have the coordinates, the difficulty level drops
to
1.
In case the puzzle description isn't clear, here's a simple
example, with a smaller grid divided into 4 cages:
There's only one way to put letters in the grid as described
above:
Unscrambling the letters in each cage, and arranging the words
as shown by the arrows, you can form the sentence "THIS PUZZLE IS
EASY".