As with all cemetery geocaching, be respectful of this sacred resting place. Please keep the area beautiful! Finding the cache will not require walking on any graves! Park in the church parking area and stay on the gravel road around the cemetery. If there is a burial in progress, please wait for the service to end before attempting to find this geocache. The Pastor of the Church has givien permission for the placement of this geocache.
The Mystery is a FIELD PUZZLE. GOTO the posted coordinates and solve the rest of the puzzle. As you can imagine there are many dates in a cemetery. So finding the right dates for this puzzle is the MYSTERY. Part of the puzzle requires some investigation before you head to the cemetery. The final solution for the Cache Location involves some simple Math which you must do when you get to the posted coordinates.
Below you will find 12 dates that are in various formats. Solve all the dates. ONLY TWO OF THESE DATES ARE CORRECT and will be found NEAR the Posted Coordinates. At the posted coordinates, look around for two dates, (years only). The two years will match two of the numbers below. Once you find the two correct dates at the posted coordinates complete a few simple math problems.
STEP 1: SOLVE AT HOME BEFORE GETTING TO POSTED COORDINATES
Figure out the following 12 YEARS: (Hint #1 is binary ... ok that's enough help.)
0000011101000110
MDCCCLXX
!*&@
Brown Grey Violet Blue
.---- ---.. ---.. ..---
nonaginta novem
00110001001110010011000100110010
Unum milia nongenti quattuor
.---- ----. .---- .....
! ( ! &
Brown White Brown White
MCMXXII
STEP 2: SOLVE at POSTED COORDINATES
OLDEST CORRECT DATE = ABCD
MORE RECENT DATE = EFGH
1) Recent minus Oldest = IJ
2) Recent plus Oldest = KLMN
3) Recent divided by Oldest = O.PQR Use only three decimals)
4) Recent times Oldest = S,TUV,WXY
STEP 3: FINAL COORDINATES
N 41 07. QVM W 096 38.IUK
Check Sum: Q+V+M+I+U+K = 26
Placed By A Nebraskache Member
