Ms. Polly Toad is a geocacher who learned the game from her friend Signal.
Ms. Polly Toad
Ms. Polly Toad is organizing an afternoon of geocaching with six of her geocaching friends: April, Ben, Candace, Doug, Ellen, and Frank. Ms. Polly Toad has room in her vehicle for the whole group and volunteered to drive.
In an email to her friends, she wrote: "Please come over to where I live to start our adventure (I have hidden a geocache here for to you find first!). You can find me at N40 59.ABC W074 03.DEF. Each one of you should bring one item from this list, such that each of you brings only one item and each item is only brought by one person: GPSr, Trail Map, Water (enough for everyone), Bug Spray, Snacks (enough for everyone), and a First Aid Kit. I'm assigning you items based on the following:
- Ben has over 20,000 finds and volunteered to bring whatever item no one else was bringing.
- Ellen and Frank are nurses at a local hospital and one of them will bring their first aid kit.
- Candace just returned from vacation and had no food in the house to bring.
- Frank's the strongest of the group so will carry the heaviest pack.
- A man will bring the water while a woman will bring the snacks.
- Doug doesn't own a smartphone, and a few days ago he accidentally left his Garmin eTrex H sitting on a guardrail while signing a park & grab cache.
- A woman will bring the bug spray.
"Once all the pairs are matched up, use the following values and add the name with the item they are bringing to fill in the missing coordinate piece (based on the first letter of their name, for example, Doug = D):
- April=1
- Ben=2
- Candace=4
- Doug=2
- Ellen=0
- Frank=1
- GPSr=4
- Trail Map=3
- Water=0
- Bug Spray=2
- Snacks=3
- First Aid Kit=1
Can YOU find the geocache? If you solve the puzzle and have no intention of finding the cache, write a note and comment on the puzzle itself!
Per the rules of geocaching, a Found It log must correspond to a signed logbook.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
BONUS: the cache container will have written in it a note with part of the coordinate for the puzzle series bonus cache, of the form LETTER=COORDINATE PIECE. Save these pieces of the bonus coordinate for use in geocache GC3T0ZY.
Happy caching!
Congratulations to Ragtime Fan and swampland'r for FTF!