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Island Sudoku Puzzle #1 (Easy) Mystery Cache

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byron family: I have moved to a new state. I collected the container and forgot to archive the cache last week when I left so doing it now.

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Hidden : 10/1/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is the first Sudoku puzzle cache in Hilton Head Island.  This is meant to be fairly easy.  My goal is to place several puzzles in which the degree of difficulty to solve will increase.  As the level of difficulty to solve the puzzle increases, so will the terrain rating of the GZ!

 

 


Sudoku is a puzzle in which numbers are filled into a grid to certain constraints.  In its simplest form, the puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid with numbers appearing in some of the squares.  The object of the puzzle is to fill the remaining squares, using all the numbers 1-9 only once in each row, column, and the nine 3x3 sub grids.  Sudoku is based entirely on logic, and the level of difficulty is determined by the quantity and positions of the original numbers.  See Example pictures in the image gallery.  In the second example, the red numbers are the solution to the first example puzzle.


In the gallery, images are the two Sudoku puzzles for this challenge.  Each puzzle has yellow highlighted boxes.  These are the correct last numerals of the North and West coordinates to be substituted into the coordinates listed below to find the cache location.  The picture captions explain which Sudoku puzzle are for the North coords and for the West coords.  The coords listed above are only for reference and will lead you to the general area of the cache.  Nothing is placed there!

 

To find the actual coordinates for the cache you must first solve both puzzles.  Print out the puzzles located below.  Replace the coinciding number into the lettered space in the coordinates below.  Log only PYOP! Happy Hunting! 

N 32* 12. A B C
W 080* 41. D E F

Careful!  This area can be a high muggle zone at times.

Congratulations to jpiannazzo for the FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgngr Gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)