If you are travelling to the Island, you will have to cross the Solent. To help pass the time and provide some light entertainment, here is a puzzle to ponder…
How to solve the puzzle:
First solve the clues to reveal some Isle of Wight locations, for example: Ice hockey "ball" in water = Puckpool
Then once you have solved them all, rearrange your list of locations alphabetically and number them 1-31
Finally, answer the questions to reveal the final coordinates for this cache.
I have attached some tables which might help with your working.
Clues:
- Initially shop and possess
- Stab Vera
- Release abcdefghijklmnopqstuvwxyz
- Humour and health
- Hero atop
- Parasite atop
- Odin's tor
- Oriental bovines
- A safe road
- Fruity
- My motor is faulty
- Waltzer
- Spanking a pig
- Recent settlement
- Pure hydration
- Ms Shields
- Pristine harbour
- Haddock emerges
- Fish that pulls faces
- Endless three-foot orifice
- Plaiting
- Old king was good
- Very depressed
- Throw-away horse
- Shapiro's Southampton
- A big puddle
- Pistol Town
- A grassy entrance
- A weedy rock
- Dark liquid
- A good place to pray
The cache is located at the following coordinates
N50 43.ABC W001 12.DEF
Where:
A = Number of letters in the 13th location
B = Location number for “Waltzer” minus location number for “Pristine harbour”
C = Number of letters in the 29th location minus number of letters in the 15th location
D = Number of locations beginning with the letter B plus number of locations beginning with the letter N
E = Number of vowels in the 18th location plus number of locations beginning with the letter L
F = Number of letters in the 22nd location minus number of letters in the 28th location
If you are really stuck, feel free to contact me for any hints/confirmation.
The cache is nearby, parking is limited in this whole area, but we were able to park within 150m of the final location.