While I haven't played in a long time, one of the bigger crazes these days is Words with Friends the popular online word game based on the fun to play in person game of Scrabble. While this puzzle is not based on either of those games, I thought it might be fun to mention a little trivia here. You never know when a word or hint might be there to help.
Some people claim to be "numbers people." You know those folks who can quote the Fibonacci Series, recite the first one hundred digits of Pi, or tell you Avogadro's Number. Or, the ones that really take the cake: those folks who can do long division in their heads. Someone like Dr. Sheldon Cooper, from The Big Bang Theory, comes to mind. The guy who tells you that the best number is 73. Why you ask? Well that is because "73 is the 21st prime number; its mirror, 37, is the 12th prime number, and 12's mirror is 21 which is the product of, hold onto your hats, 7 and 3!" By the way, 73, 37, 21, and 12 are not the answers to the puzzle. We still haven't gotten to that part yet.
Now there are some people who claim to be "word people." You know the ones who know the various parts of speech or know when to use ‘they're,’ ‘there,’ or ‘their’ correctly. They also know if trained "properly," then you should never end a sentence with a preposition. The ones that really get me are the ones who know the difference between the "present perfect" and "present participle." Honestly speaking they probably even know when to use a semicolon correctly. So far you haven’t gotten an answer to the puzzle. We’re getting to that part!
I think we have all seen them: Sudoku puzzles. They are the 9x9 grid in which you must place each digit, 1 thru 9, in a smaller section without repeating those digits in the section or in the horizontal or vertical rows. Well did you know that you can make a Sudoku using a word instead of digits? As long as the word itself has nine different letters, it can be done.
Finally! Here is the puzzle: solve the word Sudoku (from Frank Longo's Trivial Pursuit Sudoku) below. Use the letters from the 10 numbered squares to determine the coordinates to the cache's hiding spot.
Check out this video from Hairspray the movie (2007) to help you figure out the word used in the above puzzle. (You need to know the word!) One more hint about the word: gur jbeq jvyy nccrne va gur pbzcyrgrq chmmyr rvgure iregvpnyyl, ubevmbagnyyl, be qvntbanyyl. Fb jura gur chmmyr vf qbar, lbh fubhyq or noyr gb ernq vg va gur pbzcyrgrq chmmyr.
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