This cache is placed to help Captain Math get his weekly puzzle fix.
I know all too well how hard it is to keep up with a personal geocaching goal. So here is another one for Captain Math.
Seeing that I have put out a couple of these that I should share some knowledge about the number 4. 4 is the only number that has the same number of characters as its value in the English language. 4 is the smallest squared prime. 4 terrestrial (or rocky) planets in the Solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. 4 giant gas planets in the Solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. 4 is the number of nucleobase types in DNA and RNA –adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine (uracil in RNA). Humans have four canines, four incisors and four wisdom teeth. There are four basic states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. The four elements of alchemy are earth, water, air and fire. 4 is the number of bits in a nibble, equivalent to half a byte. 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence, death. 4 suits of playing cards: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades. 4 Noble Truths in the Buddhist religion. 4 heroes in the Fantastic Four: Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, The Thing. And of course the 4 cardinal directions: north, south, east, west.
You might be asking why this matters. It doesn’t, unless you are on a trivia game. But now on to the puzzle, just solve the Kakuro puzzle below.
Kakuro is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. The objective of the puzzle is to insert a digit from 1 to 9 inclusive into each white cell such that the sum of the numbers in each entry matches the clue associated with it and that no digit is duplicated in any entry. It is that lack of duplication that makes creating Kakuro puzzles with unique solutions possible, and which means solving a Kakuro puzzle involves investigating combinations more, compared to Sudoku in which the focus is on permutations. There is an unwritten rule for making Kakuro puzzles that each clue must have at least two numbers that add up to it. This is because including one number is mathematically trivial when solving Kakuro puzzles; one can simply disregard the number entirely and subtract it from the clue it indicates.
The numbers in the yellow squares replace the y’s in order from left to right, top to bottom. The numbers in the blue squares replace the b’s in order from left to right, top to bottom.
N 41 yy.y0y
W 074 bb.0bb
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
The cache was a camoed bison. Yes I know we all hate bisons in the woods, so do I. But I had one on me, you can thank Roxbury Devil for that, and I needed something to keep the muggles away. Seeing that the cache was muggled the new one is hidden better and is a bit bigger.