The posted coordinates are not those of the cache, but one of several possible starting points for this cache. To find the cache, you must solve the following logic puzzle.
Four geocachers - BugLover, ChilliRoad, Vacationer, and Waco.de -
managed to find IWasHear's latest cache "Harder Than Hull". Each
geocacher used a different GPS receiver, and all but one made an item
trade. From the following clues, determine the order in which the
cachers found the cache, the GPS receiver each one used, and the items
they traded.
- The cacher who made no trades (who wasn't Waco.de) found the
cache after the cacher with the Garmin GPSMAP 76C but before the cacher
who took the CD.
- The cacher who left the pin found the cache before Vacationer and
took the golf ball left by ChilliRoad.
- Vacationer (who doesn't have a Magellan Meridian Platinum)
complained that the first finder's log was improperly dated and
shouldn't count.
- The pliers had already been taken before BugLover found the cache
using a Garmin eTrex Legend.
- Waco.de didn't leave the carabiner; he found the cache
before the cacher using the Garmin eMap and after the cacher using the
Garmin GPSMAP 76C.
- Vacationer wasn't the one who didn't make a trade.
- The golf ball was taken after the cacher using the Garmin eTrex
Legend found the cache.
The following chart may help you
record information from the clues as well as facts you deduce by
combining information from different clues. I suggest you use a
"×" for "no" and "·" for "yes".
Solution:
|
Cacher
|
GPSR
|
Took
|
Left
|
| 1st |
(A) |
(B) |
(C) |
|
| 2nd |
|
(D) |
|
(E) |
| 3rd |
(F) |
|
(G) |
|
| 4th |
(H) |
(I) |
|
(J) |
The cache is at
N45 ___ ___ . ___ ___ ___
W75 ___ ___ . ___ ___ ___
A
B C D E
F G H I J
where the values for A-J are found from the solution above by
substituting numbers for the answers from the following table:
| 3 - BugLover |
4 - Nothing |
| 2 - ChilliRoad |
8 - Carabiner |
| 1 - Vacationer |
9 - CD |
| 4 - Waco.de |
6 - Golf Ball |
| 0 - Garmin eMap |
5 - Pin |
| 8 - Garmin eTrex Legend |
2 - Pliers |
| 1 - Garmin GPSMAP 76C |
|
| 7 - Magellan Meridian Platinum |
|