Remembering all code breakers from the First World War.
THE GEOCACHE IS NOT AT THE LISTED COORDINATES.
However, they bring you to a war memorial in the Cathedral grounds. It celebrates WW1 and WW2 and poppy rings are placed around it every year.
History - The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three-quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at Winchester as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by those from the county, and the city, who lost their lives in the First World War.
On 29 July 1918 a meeting chaired by the Earl of Selborne approved plans prepared by Sir Herbert Baker FRIBA RA for a gatehouse accompanied with either a Celtic cross or menhir on the boundary of the Cathedral precincts, on the western axis of the Cathedral, to act as a memorial for the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: an appeal was launched to raise £20,000. There was determined opposition to the location of the memorial from the citizens of Winchester, as a result of which the original plan was scrapped. Having first considered an alternative scheme for a roadway from Southgate Street (which was part of an earlier plan by Sir Christopher Wren), it was subsequently agreed to build a gateway and cross at the northern entrance to the cathedral precincts instead. This proposal was approved at a meeting on 17 September 1920.
Nevertheless, the fundraising proved insufficient and revised plans for a cross only, on the first site, were reported as agreed in the Hampshire Advertiser of 3 June 1921. In his early work for the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission Sir Herbert Baker made a proposal for a cross to stand in all of the Commission’s cemeteries, but a design by Sir Reginald Blomfield was chosen. Although the Commission’s architects were free to use crosses of their own choice within the cemeteries that they designed, the Blomfield cross proved to be the universal choice. Baker, nevertheless, used variants of his cross design for a number of English war memorials, including that at Winchester Cathedral.
Onto the puzzle -
1. Across the Bridge
Four people — John, Paul, George, and Ringo — are at one side of a gorge connected to the other by a rickety bridge that can only carry two people at a time. It is night time, and the structure is precarious, so whoever is crossing must use a torch. The group has a single torch, and the gorge is too wide for them to be able to throw it from one side to the other, so the torch must be walked back and forth over the bridge as the people cross. John can cross the bridge in I minute, Paul in 2, George in 5 and Ringo in 10. If two people cross together, they walk at the speed of the slowest of the two. How does the foursome get over in the quickest possible time?
Answer = BE
How many times did John cross the bridge?
Answer = D
2. Rock, Paper, Scissors
Adam and Eve play Rock, Paper, Scissors ten times. It's
known that:
• Adam uses three rocks, six scissors, and one paper.
• Eve uses two rocks, four scissors, and four papers.
• There is never a tie.
• The order that Adam and Eve play their hands is not known.
C = The difference between the two scores - (Eve's score + 1)
3. Box of Hats
Algernon, Balthazar, and Caractacus have a box that contains three red hats and two yellow hats. They each close their eyes, take a hat from the box and put it on. They close the box and open their eyes so that each of them can see the colour of the hat worn by the other two. They do not know the colour of their own hat, nor which hats are left in the box.
Algernon says: 'I don't know the colour of my hat.'
Balthazar says: 'I don't know the colour of my hat.'
Caractacus, seeing that the other two both have red hats, says: 'I know the colour of my hat!'
What colour is it?
2nd letter = A
3rd letter = F
NAB.CD.(D+F)DF
WCCB.B(B+E).CF(B x 5)
Good Luck!!!
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