Look how much I ate! Mystery Cache

When my daughter was a tiny toddler, we would keep an eye on how much she ate to make sure she was eating a healthy diet. They have a tendency to not want to eat the nutritious stuff, then feel like eating snacks later because they're hungry from not eating the nutritious stuff. She was a smart one though. She would show us her plate and say, "Look how much I ate!" Being parents trying to use positive reinforcement, we would praise her for eating what she did. But that was a cover-up. Just a minute after she presented her excellent progress toward finishing the food on her plate, she would quietly say, "I'm full. I don't want anymore." Now how can you get after her for not eating when you just praised her for eating? At first, she had us fooled; we didn't see it coming. Later on, however, we knew the plan and when she said, "Look how much I ate," we would tell her to keep eating.

To find the geocache, solve this puzzle: Make today manage — big deer ridden.

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You are looking for a black ammo box with a cantuland-geocache-logo painted on the sides. Original contents include a Guide to Geocaching, a Sacagawea gold dollar coin, a Kansas quarter, a Lewis-and-Clark edition nickel, one of those new-Lincoln-image-on-the-back pennies, an old wheat penny, and lots of other miscellaneous trade items.

Congratulations to both frog4peace and crossmage for being First To Find!

Hérigone's Mnemonic System

Pierre Hérigone (1580-1643) was a French mathematician, astronomer and geocacher (probably). He devised a memorization system by substituting letters for numbers, which can be combined to form words and associated together in a sentence or in a narrative, allowing the numbers to be memorized more easily.

Herigone's System:
0 z,s, soft c
1 t,d,th
2 n
3 m
4 r
5 l
6 j,ch,sh,dge,zh soft g
7 k, hard g
8 f,ph,v
9 p,b

This Mnemonic system is based on phonemes. The groups of consonant sounds have similar sounds. Some are voiced and others are not, such as T and D. They make the same sound except for one is voiced (D) and the other (T) is not. The phonemes are used to form words by adding vowels and vowel sounds. Not all letters are used, for instance the vowels and the letters W,H and Y (spelling "why") are not. W, H and Y, although being consonants, make vowel sounds rather than consonant sounds.

It is easier to remember qualitatively different objects than to recall different numeric quantities. Using this system, the number 10 could be represented by any one of the following words:
toes, tease, toss, tazz, taze, ties, twos, Tessa, tiz, twas, doze, does, deuce, daze, dice, daisy, dizzy, doozy, DOS, dues, dasia, dis, these, those, thighs, this, thus, odessy, Odessa, idiosy, eddies, odious, adios, Otis, ethos, Athos, tahoes, wheaties. Or you could use more than one word, such as wet ace, at Oz, Yetti Zoo. So next time you see "10", think of visiting a place called Yetti Zoo.

For most people it would be easier to remember the number pi to seven places past the decimal (3.1415927) by remembering three words: "meteor tail pink".
MeTeoR (314) TaiL (15) PiNK (927)

The entire code is given by
"Pseudonumerology, I give up!"
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = "pSeuDoNuMeRoLoGy, i GiVe uP!"

By the way, I personally use this system on a regular basis. I used it to create 100 peg words. I made a story out of the 100 words so I could tell an off-the-wall story to my kids. They have known this story since they were tiny tikes; it's called The Hot Sauce Story. Notice that sauce is 00, the beginning of the story.

Or perhaps you'd like to know pi to 500 places past the decimal. You could memorize a mental chain of these words and be able to recite the numbers forwards, backwards, or starting at 200 or 300. I did about a year ago. (I don't know if I still can do it though without some warm up practice.) These are the words I used to memorize pi to 500 places. If they don't work for you, come up with your own.

Turtle, bungee, lime, laugh, book, bomb, gnome, fridge,
New chair, mummy, foaming plus, one favorite bucket,
Chip, map, up mug, lettuce leaf, noose, biker, prayer,
Lip, numb, sky vet, jersey, chain vision, safe baby,
Fish, knife, summer, vinyl, marine, eat tacos, shock pi
(100)

Fainter of savage lead men, venomous shoe jerky,
Zap mover, rush-spill, lazy eleven, nomad coin,
Loom, leprosy foot, never fight Toto, curly sign,
Fort, snake, stop, hum, violin, toad, sign, lullaby,
Shore roach, nun, bravo bowler, puma same foot, patch
(200)

Oar, rain, off, voodoo, spackle, choo choo, lobo, moo moo, rah Ra, jet,
Never call giraffe, new mummy cuff, ash coffee, mead- jail,
New kitten is top speed, rule, jar full, Judge Bone,
Mirage, same, roof, shed, cereal roman, itchy itchy raven,
Time, mob, macho, skin, wash, snore, bed ridden coma
(300)

Canary love kiss, sage chase, chew metal loaf, photo key,
Revive, talon, spin, speech, one-van panelers,
Pit, kettle, major magic, ivy, bone, elbow smudges,
Sit at home, missile-missile, ruff!, phone search, shell in,
Tomb of radar, shoplight, brittle, tight, cheese, bear
(400)

Mama, slow gun, goose, match, lock hole, belly put, plumb,
Spine, dove, jade, duck, move to Bahaman jet, attic pie,
Moat, sled, tv larva, scary Russian, muck baby,
Junk, ruble, jag melt, ivy, flock, Lincoln, ray,
Vibe, dune, knock, bum feet, famous wet-wet bra button
(500)

Here's the magic number so you can practice yourself:
3.
14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
72458700660631558817488152092096282925409171536436
78925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094
33057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548
07446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912

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