The Smiley face Puzzle series of caches is an attempt to draw
the shape of a smiley face on the Geocache map in the farmland
north of Saltdean. Until now this area has no caches. In order to
place the published co-ordinates precisely in the exact shape they
need to be “Unknown” caches that are connected to
actual cache sites nearby. All of these actual caches are on or
near to public footpaths, and all are less than half a mile from
the corresponding published co-ordinates. You could collect all 8
on a circular walk that goes completely around the smiley face. To
find each cache location you have to solve a logic puzzle, which
you can do at home before you set off caching. You do not need to
visit the published co-ordinates, in fact you really
shouldn’t because they are all in the middle of farmed
land.
To find this cache you need to solve the following Squiggly
Sudoku puzzle. Squiggly Sudoku is just like Sudoku, except the 9
square zones that must contain 1 – 9 are of irregular shape.
They are not any more difficult than normal Sudoku, but if you are
used to doing normal Sudoku the irregular shape can throw you off
your game a bit. Once solved, substitute the numbers in the squares
that contain blue letters into the cache equation and there’s
the cache location.
There is a printable version of the puzzle attached below
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.