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Mesdames et Messieurs, sit yourselves down and prepare yourselves for a gastronomic treat of the finest culinary delights.
Our team of chefs have been trained in specialities from all over the world for your caching delectation!
We hope you will find many things that you will enjoy.
BON APPETIT!
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About this Series
Beachies' Bistro is a series of puzzle caches located in and around Peterborough with (if you haven't guessed already) a foodie theme. There are nine courses - see the menu below. Each course has a cache to find. In addition, there is a bonus cache ("The Bill"), which can be found using information located in all of the courses.
The puzzles are not meant to bemuse. We have pitched them with varying difficulties so that hopefully everyone can enjoy as much as possible of this series. The difficulty level, as you might expect, increases as you go through the meal. Some of the later, more difficult, puzzles have clues located in the geocheckers of earlier caches in the series; these are to assist you where needed, although all can be solved using the information on the cache page. (with the exception of the bonus, because the relevant information is contained within the caches in the series)
We have designed the series such that you can work out the puzzle elements at home before you leave (with the exception of the bonus), and pick up all of the physical caches in one day. Or you can do it in bite-size portions, it's up to you!
We would ask however that you do not leave any spoilers in your logs, even encrypted, including pictures. Please don't spoil the meal for future cachers!!
Please take either a notebook & pen or a camera phone with you so that you can take a record of the bonus information written in the caches.
The Wine List
As the fake co-ords are on Rose Avenue, a glass of Rose? (or alternatively, strawberry juice for the kids)
The Puzzle: "The Superstitious Sommelier"
Jean-Pierre, the Sommelier at Beachies’ Bistro, arranges the Bistro’s wine stocks in the cellar. The cellar has eight compartments, A-H in the diagram below, and each can hold up to nine bottles of wine at a time (for a total maximum of 72), or may not contain anything at all. The central compartment does not hold any wine – let’s just say that’s where he puts his corkscrews!
Now something you should know about Jean-Pierre is that’s he’s a very superstitious man. The compartments are arranged in a square, with A, B and C forming one side; C, E and H, forming another, and so on. No matter how much wine is in stock, Jean-Pierre prefers that the cellar is arranged such that the three compartments on each side of the square contain a total of exactly nine bottles – no more, no less. Therefore, all four sides of the square must add up to nine bottles, lest Jean-Pierre believes a terrible fate will befall the bistro. Also, Jean-Pierre believes that all four corners of the square must have the same number of bottles in, lest disaster will befall the bistro in the same way.
On Monday morning, the suppliers drop off a consignment of twenty bottles of wine (just as well, as they were completely out of stock from the weekend’s dining!) Jean-Pierre gets to work, and arranges the bottles in the cellar to make sure his requirements are met.
On Tuesday, an additional four bottles are delivered. Undeterred, J-P rearranges the cellar, and the conditions are still met.
On Wednesday, a further four bottles are delivered. Our man rearranges the cellar again, and the requirements are still satisfied.
The process is repeated on Thursday and then again on Friday, and at the end of each day Jean-Pierre has rearranged the cellar such at all four sides of the square have a total of nine bottles each. You can presume that during the period no bottles are drunk, as due to an oversight, all of these deliveries have been organised during National Teetotal Week. No bottles are smashed, removed or stored anywhere else during this time. In short, there are four bottles more at the end of each day than the previous day.
Finding this cache
Once you've worked out the arrangements, you just need to plug the numbers into this equation to find the cache:
N 52° ML.JLS W 000° KR.QPS
Where:
J = number of bottles in compartment B on Thursday
K = number of bottles in compartment F on Thursday
L = number of bottles in compartment D on Tuesday
M = number of bottles in compartment A on Tuesday
P = number of bottles in compartment C on Wednesday
Q = number of bottles in compartment H on Friday
R = number of bottles in compartment F on Monday
S = number of bottles in compartment G on Monday plus the total number of bottles in compartment E in all five days aggregated together. (final digit of answer)
All the clues refer to the number of bottles after that day's shipment has arrived and Jean-Pierre has done his rearranging.
"Tasting notes"
Parking is available a short walk from the cache site - we suggest on-street parking a few minutes south of the final co-ords. Above all, please park considerately, safely and legally. This cache is NOT a park and grab.
The final cache site is not suitable for wheelchair users I'm afraid.
Stealth will be required at final location at certain times.
We recommend you confine your search for the final cache to daylight hours.
Please bring your own pen.
And finally, the "check"...
