Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
– Mother Abbess
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THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE COORDINATES LISTED ABOVE. You will need to solve the puzzle to gain the final coordinates.
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Programming Challenge: Do, Re, Mi
Take a look at the linked word list. It is the same as others I have used around Woodland Park.
Final Cache coordinates are provided by solving this question, "How many instances of the following words - DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, TI, DO - exist in the word list if all the words were strung together into a long row?"
Check your answer and verify it at the Certitudes website to gain access to the final coordinates. See link below.
Example:
Say the word list contained these words.
Oregon
Mimi
Dare
Tid
Odor
You would first need to string the words together as such.
OregonMimiDareTidOdor
DO = 2
RE = 2
MI = 2
FA = 0
SOL = 0
LA = 0
TI = 1
DO = 2
ANSWER = 9
Searching the word list with each word independent is insufficient as can be seen by the example above. Additionally, re-sorting the list in any way beyond what I have provided will produce incorrect results.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Bring a pen!
Credits to SuperDolph for FTF! Also credits to NYWanderer and kcmcacher for finding mistakes in my code and for teaching me humility.
Text File of 178,691 Words:
https://mm-geocaching.s3.amazonaws.com/public/dictionary-colorado-puzzles.txt
Credits to mellow_cello for hosting!