Wayland 13.0 - Fortress of Solitude Mystery Cache
Wayland 13.0 - Fortress of Solitude
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* * * TOUGH FIND IN WINTER * *
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PLEASE TRADE SUPERHERO
AND COMIC BOOK THEMED ITEMS. IN YOUR LOG, PLEASE INDICATE WHAT
SUPER POWER YOU WISH YOU POSSESSED.
HOLY GOOGLE SEARCH, CACHEMAN! A
GEOCACHE TO TEST YOUR MUTANT POWERS OF RECALL OR GOOGLING.
THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE COORDINATES ABOVE - THEY ARE THE
GC.COM COORDINATES FOR THE TOWN CENTER. THE CACHE IS SOMEWHERE IN
WAYLAND.
THE SUPERHEROES BELOW WILL GIVE YOU A CLUE TO THE CACHE'S LOCATION.
ALTHOUGH THE CACHE'S NAME COMES FROM THE DC COMICS UNIVERSE, ALL OF
THE CHARACTERS DEPICTED BELOW ARE MARVEL HEROES.
To find the coordinates:
- Determine the names of the characters below.
- Count the number of letters in each name
(do not count the word "the" in any
names)
- To find the last four digits of the latitude, N42°2x.xxx,
divide 17.8845 by the number of letters in the names of the
characters in the top row
- To find the last four digits of the longitude, W71°2x.xxx,
divide 34.7824 by the number of letters in the names of the
characters in the bottom row
- As a check, the first letters of the names spell out a
description of the area near the cache.
LATITUDE N42°2n.nnn
nnnn = 17.8845 / total number of letters in the names above
LONGITUDE W71°2w.www
wwww = 34.7824 / total number of letters in the names above
Math Notes: Truncate and take the four leftmost digits, out to the
thousandths place.
DO NOT SEARCH FOR THIS CACHE UNLESS YOU HAVE THE COORDINATES.
THE SEARCH AREA IS LARGE, THE CONTAINER IS WELL HIDDEN, AND PRIVATE
PROPERTY IS NEARBY.
** Check out the King
Pong Travel Bug to help find all of the Wayland caches.
**
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[puzzle: #3 normally rides a motorcycle. #5 is not "Storm", look at the insignia. #6 is a superhero's father; googling his name results in "OS/2 emulator". #7 is NOT riding a silver surfboard. The comic book covers in the background image will give you a clue to most of the characters' "teams" if you're really stuck.]
[parking: offset from cache N -0.263 W -0.642
worth seeing : offset from cache N -0.276 W -0.550]
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