T6-TMPT: IT AIN'T CAJUN!
ABOUT THIS CACHE:
This cache is part of the TRIANGLE MAN PUZZLE TRAIL (TMPT). You can read more about this trail after the section on this specific cache.
As with all Puzzle Caches the container is not hidden at the above listed coordinates. You must determine the actual coordinates by solving the puzzle below.
A sumu yoo drivin a bus and on da first stop 6 peopl git on. On for the secont stop four people’s picked up and dem 2 let off. On 3rd stop 10 peeple gits on and dose five git off. Sept on da 4th stp dey all gets off da bus. Tink hard now! Wats da Bus Driver’s numba? Ad it to each uh da numbas in da bogus cordnates!
Da Bogus Cordnates: N….. .467 W….. .732
MY SOLUTION: N ___ ___ ° ___ ___ . ___ ___ ___ , W ___ ___ ___ ° ___ ___ . ___ ___ ___
Once you have a solution and have converted it (if necessary) to decimal minutes (XX°XX.XXX) add all of the individual digits together to find a checksum to confirm your answer for this puzzle. Your checksum is 74.
ABOUT THE TRIANGLE MAN PUZZLE TRAIL (TMPT):
The Triangle Man Puzzle Trail is a series of 100 Mystery/Puzzle Caches hidden in Scott County, Mississippi.
They are divided into six categories. Five of the categories make up the visible parts of the TRIANGLE MAN geoart which can be see on the geocaching.com map. (Actually, the full geo-art will not be visible on the map until I finish hiding all of the individual caches in this series. So until that is done, I have posted below an image for you of what it will look like.) The sixth category is an invisible mystery to be solved after all of the others.
TRIANGLE MAN PUZZLE TRAIL CATEGORIES:
1. HAT: 16 caches (H1-TMPT, H2-TMPT, H3-TMPT, ...)
2. TRIANGLE: 34 caches (T1-TMPT, T2-TMPT, T3-TMPT, ...)
3. ARMS: 16 caches (A1-TMPT, A2-TMPT, A3-TMPT, ...)
4. LEGS: 10 caches (L1-TMPT, L2-TMPT, L3-TMPT, ...)
5. BOW TIE: 7 caches (BT1-TMPT, BT2-TMPT, BT3-TMPT, …)
6. MYSTERY: 17 caches (M1-TMPT, M2-TMPT, M3-TMPT, ...)
LOCATION: All of the geocaches in the Triangle Man Puzzle Trail (TMPT) are hidden in or around the Beinville National Forest. None of the ones hidden inside the Beinville National Forest are hidden on privately owned in-holdings. They are also all on non-management land, which is open to the public, free of charge and without need of a permit. The ones hidden around (outside of) the Beinville National Forest are hidden on public right-of-way. Forest Road FR 530 is a gated gravel road which runs through this part of the forest and is open for hiking and cycling year round. However, it is only open for motor vehicles from Sept 15 through April 30. During those months you will find that all of the gates (except one) will be open. You will have to figure out on your own which ones are open and which one is always closed.
RATINGS: I have tried to give a good mix of D&T ratings. Some legs of the more remote portions of the trail will by nature become progressively harder because of the distance needed to reach them on foot or bike. In those cases their ratings will become increasingly higher.
Difficulty Ratings reflect not only the difficulty in finding the cache and signing the log book at ground zero, but also the effort needed to solve the puzzle. The amount of effort it takes to solve a puzzle is an extremely subjective quality to attempt to quantify with a definitive number. What one person considers easy, another may find difficult. For that reason, I expect different finders to have differing opinions about these ratings.
Terrain Ratings reflect the physical effort needed to arrive at the coordinates. For caches hidden in areas where it is advantageous to use Forest Road FR 530 I have sought to be fair to all. Therefore I have chosen to use ratings which reflect the effort you would expend if you hunted for those caches during the four months of the year which FR 530 is only open for hiking and cycling. If you hunt for those caches during the eight months of the year when motor vehicle traffic is allowed, you will find the physical effort needed to reach those caches to be less (in some cases a whole lot less) than reflected in the ratings. However, rainy weather (mud) or an occasional fallen tree (across the road) could change that.
ORDER OF ANCIENT AND HONORABLE GEOPUZZLERS:
Verified Finders of all 100 of the caches in the Triangle Man Puzzle Trail are eligible to be inducted into the Order of Ancient and Honorable GeoPuzzlers at the annual Triangle Man Event Dinner. A Verified Finder is a Geocacher who has proven to the cache owner that he actually solved the puzzle himself (as opposed to simply obtaining the coordinates from a previous finder) and has proven to the cache owner that he himself found and signed the paper log (as opposed to being a “Drive-by Geocacher” or “Arm-Chair Geocacher”).
Verification is NOT a requirement for logging this cache online as found!
However, verification IS a requirement for induction into the Order of Ancient and Honorable GeoPuzzlers.
Verification may be obtained by either Method 1 or 2 below:
Method 1. Have the Cache Owner with you when you solve this puzzle and also when you find this cache.
or
Method 2: (Must do both A & B below)
A. In your online log, post a photograph of yourself holding the paper log sheet beside your face. Both your face and your signature, along with the previous finders’ signatures, must be visible and clearly readable.
and
B. Send a private email to the Cache Owner with a detailed explanation of the process you used to solve this puzzle. Give details such as: any math involved, the name of cipher, the keyword, the clues..etc, if applicable.
VERIFIED FINDERS:
RealCache
meloper
RockThrower
tlbaker
terrybaldridge
mbooda
HHRfan
$nowman
KnDSigns
MrTroy
USEFUL INFORMATION: At the bottom of each geocache page in this series, right after this blurb, I will be placing information, which while not useful for solving the geocache puzzle on the page it appears on, will be very useful in solving other subsequent geocache puzzles in the series. So finding these geocaches in their numbered order could be to your advantage.
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