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The Guardians of Time have a problem. A micro-fracture in the Canvas of Eternity has appeared. Time is slipping away, quite literally, and someone needs to enter the Time Crystal Portal (GC5M54B) to make repairs. But there is a problem. Nobody has accessed the Time Crystal Portal for centuries and its location has been forgotten. All that remains is a remote console to the portal in the Hall of Forever. It displays an array of meaningless symbols and all that the Guardians know is that when the correct six symbols are selected on the console then the location of the Time Crystal Portal will be revealed.
Many cycles ago, there was a man who knew all of the secrets of Time. However, he has long since gone to the great egg-timer in the sky, but apparently he fabricated six Time Crystals (each embossed with one of the symbols to activate the Time Crystal Portal) and securely deposited them in time-resistant boxes around the Herts-Beds border. Each powerful crystal can never be in close proximity with another for fear of disrupting the fragile time canvas even further. However, if a brave Time Scout was prepared to venture forth to discover the six symbols emblazoned on these crystals and returned in one piece to activate the Time Crystal Portal then all of humanity would be indebted to them for all eternity.
Fortunately, recent intelligence has revealed that Professor Zamen of the University of Flux, has gained knowledge of the location of the six Time Crystals. He will not give up this infomation easily, but has set a series of puzzles to lead any intrepid Time Scout who earnestly seeks the crystals to their hiding spot.
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The Cache
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"I am particularly pleased with this puzzle for hiding the coordinates to the fourth time crystal", says Professor Zamen. "I have dusted off my electronics notes and soldering iron to make a web-controlled dice box with webcam. The box contains five different coloured polyhedral dice. On each dice one of the numbered faces has been obscured by white paint. Shake the dice box with the button on the web page to see different faces. By determining the obscured number on each dice and using the following formula the Time Crystal can be located."
North 51 59. Green White Blue West 000 23. (Red - White) Orange (Red - Blue)
The ten-sided Green dice has numbers 0-9, the six-sided Blue dice has numbers 1-6, the twelve-sided Red dice has numbers 1-12, the eight-sided Orange dice has numbers 1-8 and the four-sided White dice has numbers 1-4 around each apex.
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As of February 2024, we've had to move the final container, but the puzzle solution has remained unchanged with regards to the checker and the "Master of Mystery" cache. From the Certitude validated coords, add 10 to the Northings and 19 to the Westings.
"Please be patient with the technology and come back later if the dice box is not 'behaving' itself. The dice roller will not be available from 11pm to 7am UK time and from time to time the room in which the dice roller lives needs to be occupied by guests, so it may be removed for a short while."
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