Lets all roll our calenders back to the year 2000 (Y2K)
Cost of Living 2000
How Much things cost in 2000
Average Cost of new house $134,150.00
Average Income per year $40,343.00
Average Monthly Rent $675.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.26
Average cost of new car $24,750.00
US Postage Stamp 33 cents
1 LB of Bacon $2.97
Ground Coffee per IB $3.44
Loaf of Bread $1.72
Dozen Eggs 89 cents
Barrel Of Oil Tops $30.00 per barrel
This was also the year of the first geocache. To honor that event I decided to hide a few tribute caches and maybe an event or two. I was trying to come up with a suitable puzzle. I am a big fan of classic rock music. I was going through the songs on my phone trying to find the perfect puzzle cache song. It had to be the perfect puzzle song. I ran across Sound Of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel and I heard the perfect line
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
At that point I had a great idea for a really cool puzzle using those lyrics by adding a few more lines. Here is the puzzle version.
People talking without speaking.
People hearing without listening,
People seeing without looking,
People feeling without touching,
The posted coords puts you pretty much at the front door of Party 1. What better place to start a celebration? The real coords are near but not too near. Instructions and hints. Need I say follow the instructions? The clues/hints are numerous and mean nothing by themselves but totally make sense once you figure them out. You can not, I repeat can not work this puzzle backwards. (reverse engineer) You will not find this by just looking for it (a blind pig finding an acorn) trust me.
Here is the puzzle to solve:
N 36 AB CDE
W 086 FG HIJ
A=1/2,10
B=2/6,7,13,14
C=3/5
D=4/2,9
E=5/7,14
F6/4,11
G7/2,10
H8/6,7,13
I9/3,4
J10/2,8,9
Again, follow the instructions and work back and forth and find the many hidden clues.
Everything you need to solve the puzzle is on the cache page but not on the page.