The Background
As the 2021 Spring lockdown was coming to an end I had started getting back in to trying to solve some of those puzzles near me that had no smiley from me – including that 6th Millennium puzzle. There’s a nice feeling when you get that green light on something that you’ve been looking at for ages. In addition to that, I was trying to help brownes_associate through some of the basics of puzzle caches – I had lent a book and pointed her in the direction of some puzzles, that I had solved, that use some of the basic puzzle solving techniques. I’m enjoying seeing someone else building up an arsenal of methods to use when faced with a puzzle. As I'm not yet employed as the goat-herder on Howth I thought I'd place a few puzzles to help use some of the basic skills.
Whether it’s words, pictures, letters, codes, ciphers, colours, numbers, steganography, EXIF, pattern recognition – when it comes down it you’re often looking for ways to get back to some usable Coordinates usually in the format of degrees and decimal minutes – N?? ??.??? & W??? ??.??? (other coordinate notations are available too).
So here follows a puzzle – how do you get numbers from these words?
The Puzzle
N53 22. Acute Hurt Glow
W006 05. Employer Goat Committed
The Checker
The Cache
Solve the puzzle, find the cache, sign the log, put the cache back. Simples.
The FTFer(s)
Congratulations to silver soldier for the FTF. First To Solve honours also fall to Silver Soldier with 225 reds currently on the checker when it was solved.