Sometimes life gets in the way of fun and games. That has been my story lately, and my lack of active caching. Well, time to make amends and get going again! Hmm, how can I give back to the community?
Of course, by creating some new puzzles, everyone’s favorite cache type, to solve and then find. However, my brain is too old and decrepit to be that creative. Time to do something I did not think I would ever do again, refer to my interaction with Jenk Porkins. That’s right, time to hire a service to do my dirty work for me.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, I only had 5 people enter my contest. This made judging the ‘winners’ a whole lot easier. This is the saga of one of those winning contestants. Each cache in this series has some information you need to gather to find the final bonus cache.
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fanugler: “Good morning Mrs. Anya, how are you today? This is a very interesting puzzle. How did you come about creating such a unique idea?
Anya: “Well Mr. Fanugler, my Cyrillic dance troupe was recently doing a jailhouse themed presentation over by Lake Macatawa a couple weeks ago, the ending number was from the musical ‘Chicago.’ During the show, this idea came to me for your puzzle contest.”
fanugler: “Dance troupe, huh? I know a puzzling girl that lives for dance shows and competitions. What a small world. I must admit, though, I have no idea what is going on with your puzzle.”
This is what Anya presented to me, and your puzzle to solve.
fanugler: “You do realize that I gave you North and West coordinates to make a puzzle for, right? Coordinates are numbers!”
Anya: “Fear not, all the information that your friends need is right there. They just need to remember that when using a map, North is up, and West is to the left.”
fanugler: “Alrighty, I’ll publish this and see what happens. I appreciate you entering my competition and helping me out with this. It’s been a pleasure.”
Assume 43/86
***Simply because it seems to be causing confusion, the 2x2 set up of the puzzle is not significant. All symbols could be visualized and "read" in a single file line, and get the solution. It is a 2x2 because I made them too large to fit in one row or column.***
While visiting, make sure you grab the needed information for finding the final, from the logbook.
Big thanks to CubsGuy23 for the container.