Part of an "Accumulating ..." series of puzzle caches I plan on creating. The cache is not at the listed coordinates, but within a mile.
Remember the 2000 elections, and the hanging chad debacle? Ah, but were our political problems so simple now. On this 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it is staggering to think how different our country might be today, had chads fallen differently in 2000 (so to speak).
What is chad? According to one definition, it is the small paper particles that are created when portions of a paper sheet are punched out. Election cards had pre-perforated choice boxes, and they were detached from the card to register a selection. When I was a kid, I carried a wallet sized card that had twenty targets that were to be punched in exchange for a lunch at school; a daily ritual with some ancient adult that produced, of course, chad. Seldom is chad collected. But that is in fact the purpose of this cache; to collect chad.
To find this cache, you will likely be producing some chad. About 573 pieces, I estimate. The three images below will act as three visual screens to be stacked atop one another. The sites with a "+" are to be punched out with a binder hole punch. Then when the three screens are stacked appropriately, you will be able to see your way to the cache! I believe there are 64 possible arrangements.
The cache is located in a fairly exposed location, so attempt to be stealthy. Staying in theme, the location is near an establishment that I suspect accumulates chads; chads of a different type, albeit.
Update 2013jan29: the chad-inhabiting establishment is no more; end of an era, fer sure.
For the FTF, there are some example chad from my dry run of the puzzle, and a $5 Starbucks gift card! Congratulations!
A NOTE ON HOLE PUNCHING:
To avoid losing screen material when surrounded by punched locations, it is key that the printout of the screen sheets is large enough relative to the punch hole diameter that adjacent punched holes do not overlap. A PDF file containing the three screen sheets of a size that should work for a common binder hole punch can be retrieved from this location:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1_whqaV2FEsOTdlMGY4ZWEtMTdkOC00NzU1LWE2MDYtNGNiNjE0YzY2MmVk&hl=en_US (http://tinyurl.com/4xrb82n)
No Certitude check is provided for this puzzle, since the solution is so distinct.
If you are the gimpy type, you may be able to solve this puzzle paperlessly using this image of the screens:
