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This cache is the final for the Color of the Year Puzzle.
You have found clues in each of 4 traditional caches. Using the clues from all 4 caches, find information on the internet from which you can calculate the final coordinates. You may be able to solve the final Puzzle in the field, but you will need internet access.
Color of the Year Puzzle Clue #1
Color of the Year Puzzle Clue #2
Color of the Year Puzzle Clue #3
Color of the Year Puzzle Clue #4
The final location is N 40 40.ABC W 074 14.DEF
- Step 1: Wikipedia.org - search for PANTONE. Find the Pantone ID number for each of the 4 colors. Each number should have 6 digits. Ignore the dash. (To make it a little easier to identify the color, the first initial of each color name has been written on the clue in the cache.)
ADD THOSE NUMBERS.
- Step 2: Put the color names in order by year. Count the letters in each of the four color names and write the numbers down in a string (For example, if the first color name has 5 letters, and the second color name has 4, and the third color name has 17, and the fourth color name has 11 letters, the resulting number would be 541711)
SUBTRACT THAT NUMBER FROM THE NUMBER YOU GOT IN STEP 1
- Step 3: Find the number for Pantone "Fairway" on the internet and SUBTRACT JUST THE LAST 4 DIGITS of Fairway from the total you get in Step 2. (Fairway was not a color of the year but it is from Pantone)
- Step 4: Your result will be ABCDEF
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