This is a tribute, and a thank-you, to preeminent local cacher str8upcacher.
The tribute is to acknowledge his amazing skills in creating fun, original and oft-times diabolical caches, and his amazing skills in solving and finding our oft-times frustrating puzzle caches.
The thank-you is for his introducing us to what has become a daily addiction – the on-line game “Str8ts.” Check out https://www.str8ts.com/daily_str8ts.html.
The rules of Str8ts are pretty str8t 4ward:
1. The rows and columns of a 9 x 9 grid are divided into horizontal and vertical compartments of white squares;
2. Single numbers from 1 through 9 are placed in the white squares to complete a “straight” for each compartment;
3. A straight is a set of numbers with no gaps, no repeats and in any order (eg. a straight might be 3 6 4 2 5);
4. The numbers in the black squares remove that number as an option in its row and column, and are not part of any straight;
5. No single number can repeat in any row or column.
Below is an example of a game of Str8ts, with certain numbers already in place.
The cache’s location is N45 1 A9 . D7 H8 G4 W75 4 F5 . (H9-D5) G9 D9.
Beta testing thanks are owed to licenced-to-kill math guru 8ender.