The cache is NOT at the listed coordinates.
If you go there, you'll be at the center pivot point of a large irrigated field.
Do not search there!
Solve the puzzle below to find where you need to go.
Remember all the hubbub a few years back when a talking Barbie doll came out,
and one of the things she said was, "Math is hard!"?
Math is almost always stigmatized as hard, and it's usually shown as for boys instead of girls.
What a bunch of hooey!
Math can be fun for boys and girls, men and women, and even animals. (Rabbits know how to multiply, don't they? And amoeba can divide...) Anyway, someone was probably buying into the stereotype when a name was given for the puzzle we used to know way back when as "Number Place". KenKen? Ken is so dull that Barbie broke up with him. He would never be caught doing something as fun and exciting as a Number Place puzzle! And you know that KenKen is fun and exciting.
So, for purposes of this geocache, we're changing the name of what is known today as a KenKen puzzle to a BarbieBarbie puzzle. Let's give the poor doll a chance to redeem her reputation. Yeah, we'll keep this page pink in her honor, but math doesn't have to be hard for you or for Barbie. Just give it a try in the puzzle below.
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 pink-colored coordinates shown right above the grid, then find the cache container at those coordinates.
Some directions for solving this puzzle and others similar to it:
- Fill the whole 8x8 grid, one digit per square.
- Use the digits 1-8 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
