The Whittlesea Puzzles for Beginners geoart is designed for cachers who are new to puzzle solving. In this series, we explore a number of common puzzle solving techniques and highlight some online resources. These beginner puzzles will help get you started in tackling those mysteries on your geomap, and hopefully boost your confidence to tackle more.
Many of the online puzzle solving tools can be found on the following page: Puzzle Resources.
The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. To obtain the coordinates, solve the puzzle below.
Don't forget to collect the clues inside the cache for the bonus puzzle - GC9Z4DN - Whittlesea Puzzles for Beginners - Bonus Cache.
Puzzle #15: Get Smart, CONTROL (A) versus KAOS
There are many caches that hide coordinates, parts of coordinates, or additional hints in white text on the page (or the same colour as the background). The easiest way to find this information is to press Ctrl+A (or Cmd+A on a mac) which will select all the information on the screen.
Have a look at this puzzle for example. A good tip is to take note of the difficulty rating of the puzzles. D1 and D1.5 should be fairly easy to solve, however, sometimes this is not always the case.
Based on the TV show Get Smart, the CO has given us a lot of information to digest.
The Puzzle
Using what you have just learnt, solve the below puzzle to reveal the final co-ordinates of the cache.
Get Smart is an American comedy television series, parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of James Bond films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on 18 September 1965. It stars Don Adams (who was also a director on the series) as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief.
Plot
While attending a concert, Agent 86 Maxwell Smart is called on his shoe-phone by the Chief and told to immediately go to CONTROL Headquarters. Once there, the Chief tells Max that it is Max's turn to take on a very important CONTROL mission, and he shows Max a photograph; he explains the object pictured is called the Enthermo, and it is a device that can convert heat waves into immense destructive powers. It is then revealed that Mr. Big (Michael Dunn) of KAOS has overseen the kidnapping of Professor Dante (Vito Scotti) - the inventor of the Enthermo - and is demanding $100,000,000 or else he will use the weapon on all the major cities of the World.
After gathering the gear he needs, and arranging for Agent K13 (a dog) to accompany him, Max is told that Agent 99 will meet him at the airport; the agent will reveal their identity with the secret code phrase "New York Mets win double-header". While waiting near the airline ticket/car insurance/car rental counter, Max overhears a young boy repeating a newspaper headline (which Max does not see until after this encounter), "New York Mets Win Double-Header", and asks the boy if he is 99 - "No. I'm six-and-a-half".
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