By agreement of the members of the creation team, The Sussex Olympic Rings group of 65 caches will be archived on September 19th, 2016. Thanks for your understanding.
This series of 65 puzzle caches has been placed to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Each ring is set by different cachers and contains 11 or 12 hides plus a bonus. The whole design is over 4km across. You will need to find all caches for a ring in order to find the bonus and complete the ring.
There are three Medal caches above the rings, Bronze, Silver and Gold. See the Bonus cache descriptions for how to find them. See the Gold Medal cache page for full series credits.
The cache is not located at the given coordinates.
At the time of placing, the cache contains the logbook, a small pencil and sharpener (though best to bring your own pen), and a few swaps including some Olympic/Paralympic goodies!
Parking
Two significant, free, parking locations have been added as waypoints on all the Yellow Ring caches. These are not necessarily the best place to park for all the caches, but you should consider them seriously where they are reasonably near the final co-ordinates you have successfully had confirmed by GeoCheck. Where more appropriate parking locations are available, some of these have been noted as parking waypoints in Geocheck. You may be able to download these.
It’s Just a Wordsearch!
Note 14/05/2013: We are now obliged to simplify this puzzle, not because it was too hard but because the Paralympian Club website has been greatly modified and it is no longer possible to do the kind of searches that are necessary to help with finding the required names.
Our thanks to Lost! for pointing to the problem by questioning the difficulty level !!
The Wordsearch contains the surnames of 16 very successful (winning at least 5 gold medals prior to 2012) British paralympians. Just find them all and then do some CAREFUL COUNTING to reveal the coordinates for the cache.
Here are the names you are looking for though you will need to rearrange the letters a little!
ABBCKLNRU ACEHHRTT ACINRS ADHMNU ADEENSTW ADEHIMRU AENOPRS ALNOTW BNORTU CDNUY EEGONRRSU EGHMNOOPRSTY EHLMOS EKNNY ELLOPW EORSTY
A little extra help: you should have a total of 145 unused letters when you have found all the names.
If you are interested in looking at snapshot profiles of our Paralympian athletes, they can be found at Paralympians’ Club.
The cache can be found at:
N: 51 (Z)(Z).(O-F-W)(T-H-J)(Y-G-K)
W: 000 (Q)(B+V).(E-A-M)(I+N-S)(U-D-P)
