Cache by IthacaDoodle
This puzzle is dedicated to our good friend teamajk (Jennifer) in honor of her reaching the double geocaching milestone of 2000 finds and 1000 puzzle cache finds. This is impressive in itself, but even more so to have this high-quality cache ratio coincide at exactly the same moment! Congrats!
teamajk's geocaching name is well-known to geocachers around the world. Her blog 'Geocaching Puzzle of the Day' has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors since 2010. She has been featured on the geocachetalk podcast, has been a special guest at captainmath's tristate events, and has recently been enjoying non-geocaching competitive puzzling. She is obviously a puzzle fan, but she also enjoys many other things like quilting, wordplay, visiting family, sunny vacations, codes and ciphers, and making chocolate fudge during the holidays. She has a doctorate and teaches geology and mathematics. Jennifer is the key member in her family geocaching team and is represented by the "J" in teamAJK, however her AJK caching team also consists of her dog Kirby ("K") and son Andrew ("A"), who developed several of their earliest puzzle hides. As far as the less geocaching inclined members of her family, her husband is a respected astrophysicist and gravity expert; his research group's work on gravitational waves was recently acknowledged with a major international award. He enjoys board games and bridge. Her daughter studies chemistry and is quite the swimmer.
Posted coords are for parking. To solve this puzzle you must first correctly answer the following questions about teamajk and her family. Once you have identified the five words, use those answers to replace the letters A through E in the next section to obtain the location of four waypoints. The waypoints are identified using the Geocaching Toolbox What3Words site. To make this easier, all the answer words you need (A through E) appear in the preceding paragraph and all the resulting waypoints are within five miles of the posted coordinates and within one mile of each other.
Questions:
A ______ Something teamajk has
B + C _______ ______ What her husband is (2 words)
D _____ Something teamajk enjoys
E _____ Something her husband enjoys
Waypoint 1: taxi.A.motor
Waypoint 2: elbowing.B.C
Waypoint 3: share.smacked.D
Waypoint 4: E.C.asleep
Now that you have identified the four waypoints, choose your method (virtual or physical) and draw a straight line from Waypoint 1 to Waypoint 2 and a straight line from Waypoint 3 to Waypoint 4. The intersection of the two lines is the location of the cache. You can check your coordinates with certitude (fuzzy coords allowed).
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
The cache holds thematic swag and a special prize for FTF (reserved for the cache honoree)!