EN: This cache deals with comic books, and their heroes. What began as a funny and recreational thing for kids, grew up to be a billion dollar industry.
80’s were the best years in the former state (Yugoslavia) for comic books. Maybe I’m a bit biased, as I was a kid precisely in those times. There wasn’t much else going around, like today, no internet, no video games, no mobile phones, no shopping malls or movie multiplexes, only 2 state TV channels, and a LOT of great weekly or monthly published comic books to choose from.
There was “Politikin Zabavnik”, a weekly youth magazine about everything, including one long comic book. I still have a great collection of those at home.
“Stripoteka” was another great magazine of those times, you can find a lot of scanned issues on the net (if you look carefully). Next, 2 of the best weekly published comic books were “Lunov Magnus Strip” and “Zlatna serija”, which published various heroes, surprisingly of italian origin (Sergio Bonelli editori). I say surprisingly, because they all followed cowboys, indians, and other american-based characters, so at the times, I was sure they have to come from the States. Marvel was completely absent from the comic book scene in these parts.
This mystery is a homage to this golden era of comic books in these parts, and the heroes we all impatiently waited to see the new adventures from.
On below 2 photos, you see 10 heroes and 10 of their sidekicks. Your goal is to match the hero with his sidekick, and find the values for letters A-J. How do you do this?
Let’s take example of finding the value of A. There are two persons marked with letter A, one in the first image (A2), and one in the second (A7). Only ONE of them is the hero (and his (or her) name is the title of the comic book where he/she appears), the other one is the sidekick (but obviously, not person A’s sidekick, but somebody else’s). Let’s suppose that the hero is the person under A7, and his sidekick is the image below it, marked G4. Disregard the letter G, and take only the value 4. TRIPLE the value of the hero (because the hero values more, of course), therefore 3*7=21, and add the value of a sidekick (in this case, 4). So, the final value for A in this example would be 21+4=25.
Of course, this is just an example how to calculate things, so you should calculate the REAL value of A by matching the CORRECT hero with his CORRECT sidekick by adding the triple value of the hero to the value of the sidekick, and continue to do this for all the letters.
(Of course, the cache is not on the starting coordinates, but there, in the basement, you can find all the comic books you need to solve this puzzle).
HR: Ovaj cache se bavi stripovima i njihovim junacima. Ono što je počelo kao zabavna stvar prvenstveno za djecu, se razvilo u multimilijunsku industriju.
80-e su bile najbolje godine u bivšoj državi (Jugoslaviji) za stripove. Možda sam pomalo i pristran, pošto sam bio dijete upravo u tom periodu. Razlog tome je djelomično bio i to što nije bilo puno drugih stvari koje su se događale (kao što imamo danas), nije bilo interneta, video igara, kino multipleksa, shopping centara a niti mobilnih telefona, samo 2 državna TV programa i PUNO odličnih tjedno ili mjesečno objavljivanih stripova.
Postojao je “Politikin Zabavnik”, tjedni magazin za mlade pun svega i svačega, uključujući i jedan kompletan strip. Još uvijek imam veliku zbirku toga kod kuće.
“Stripoteka” je bio još jedan magazin tih vremena, kojih možete naći gomilu skeniranih brojeva na netu (ako pažljivo tražite). Nadalje, dva najbolja tjedna stripa su bili “Lunov Magnus Strip” i “Zlatna serija” koji su objavljivali razne junake, čiji crtači su, pomalo iznenađujuće, bili Talijani (Sergio Bonelli Editori). Kažem “iznenađujuće”, jer su svi stripovi pratili kauboje, indijance, te ostale čisto američke likove, tako da sam ja bio uvjeren da su crtani u Americi. Marvel je još apsolutno bio nezastupljen u našim krajevima.
Ova misterija je homage toj zlatnoj eri stripa u našim krajevima, te junacima čije smo avanture svi nestrpljivo čekali iz tjedna u tjedan.
Na gornje 2 slike vidimo 10 junaka i njihovih pratioca. Vaš zadatak je spariti junaka s njegovim pratiocem, te naći vrijednosti slova A-J. Kako ćete to napraviti?
Uzmimo na primjer da moramo naći vrijednost slova A. Postoje dva junaka označeni slovom A, prvi na prvoj slici (A2), a drugi na drugoj (A7). Samo JEDAN od njih je glavni junak (a njegovo/njezino ime je i naslov stripa u kojem se pojavljuje), dok je drugi pratioc (naravno, ne junaka A, nego nečiji drugi). Pretpostavimo da je glavni junak na slici A7, a njegov pratioc na slici ispod, označenoj s G4. Zanemarimo slovo G, i uzmimo samo vrijednost 4. UTROSTRUČIMO vrijednost glavnog junaka (jer glavni junak, naravno, vrijedi više), znači 3*7=21, te tome broju dodamo “vrijednost” pratioca (u ovom slučaju, 4). Dakle finalna vrijednost za A u ovom primjeru bi bila 21+4=25.
Naravno, ovo je samo primjer kako računati, a PRAVU vrijednost za A ćete izračunati spajajući PRAVOG junaka s njegovim PRAVIM pratiocem tako da zbrojite trostruku vrijednost junaka s vrijednošću pratioca, te ponovite isto za sva slova.
(Cache nije na početnim koordinatama, na kojima (u podrumu) možete pronaći sve stripove koji vam trebaju da riješite ovaj puzzle).
Cache is at N 45° 48.XXX E 015° 58.YYY
Cache je na N 45° 48.XXX E 015° 58.YYY
XXX = (20*A-B+9*C-7*D+11*E),
YYY = (9*F+3*G+10*H+8*I-3*J)
