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Merry Christmas #3 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/23/2011
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Merry Christmas, fellow geocachers! Or pleasant wishes extended in whatever tradition you may follow. :)

I went for a drive with the munchkins and put them to work helping me pick spots for some geocaches. If you like it, it was all my idea. If you don't like it, I'll blame them. :D

The cache is not at the posted coordinates! You must first solve the Sudoku and then do a little math.

Once you've solved the Sudoku, treat each line of your red-shaded answers as if it were a multi-digit number, so you'll have a 6-digit number, a 5-digit number, a 4-digit number, and a 2-digit number. Add these 4 numbers together, and call the answer A.

Now, take all of your EVEN green-shaded answers and multiply them all together except for the last one. You should get an 8-digit number, which we will call B.

Now (this is the easiest bit), take all the given numbers in green boxes and line them all up in order (top to bottom, left to right) to make a 7-digit number. This is C.

B-A=D

D
- = E
C

Round E to two decimal places, and then erase the decimal point, it's not needed. (You will now have a 4-digit number.)

Subtract your adjusted E from the original North coordinates, and add the adjusted E to the original West coordinates to find the cache!

The posted difficulty is for the puzzle, the cache's difficulty is more like a 1.5.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

va gur ohfu, abg ba gur tebhaq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)