The long summer holiday typically found Sebastian, our local geocaching prodigy, spending time at his uncle Emerson's bach which nestled amongst the trees, down a vaguely marked track, somewhere in the Marlborough Sounds.
Sebastian was never quite certain where the bach was exactly since, once through Havelock, he shut his eyes and went to sleep as the windy roads thereafter tended to make him car-sick.
However, once arrived and unpacked, Sebastian's days were spent swimming, fishing, reading, sailing, geocaching, and all those other things you can do when you're young and carefree.
Most evenings were spent on the veranda toasting marshmallows after dinner and playing board games until the sun went down or until Sebastian fell asleep, whichever happened sooner.
Sebastian and his uncle Emerson's favourite board game was one familiar to most and the long holidays allowed them to continue a single game over several weeks at a time, often playing with two pieces each, if only to mix things up a little.
Uncle Emerson saw this game as an opportunity to teach young Seb some valuable life-lessons about the pros and cons of capitalism, which were often wasted on Sebastian as all he wanted to do was get one over on his uncle, usually by discretely syphoning money from the bank.
Aside from all that, they both enjoyed their time playing the game as they both found the idea of winning far more important that purely having fun.
To ensure that neither player cheated during the day by moving cards, properties, or money both Sebastian and Emerson took a photo of the game board at the end of each evening.
Here's one such photo taken one evening in January:
Sebastian's cash
The dog
The battleship
Uncle Emerson's cash
The car
The hat
After the photo was taken and just before he went to bed, Sebastian announced:
"You know what Uncle Emerson? I've just realised that we could do a puzzle cache based on this game and I think I know exactly where we could place the cache!"
"But it's unlikely geocachers would be prepared to drive all this way just to find a small Sistema box." his uncle cautioned.
"I don't know," responded Sebastian, "I can think of a few. But you're right, let's place it closer to home."
After a few minutes thought, Sebastian continued: Got it! How about we place it …"
But Sebastian never said where he thought the cache could be placed as he'd fallen asleep, exhausted.
Not to worry though. It's your turn now anyway.
Fortunately, before he dropped off, Sebastian did have the presence of mind to scribble a note of where he thought the cache could be placed.
So, when you're ready to take your turn, just tap these dice below to see if you had the same idea Sebastian did.