The Fishtrap Crypt Mystery Cache
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Welcome to the land where legends speak of great floods and
volcanic flows. This is great country to take your dog for a walk
while taking in some good vistas. You might want to wear waterproof
boots in the wetter months. Have fun. Afterall, this land belongs
to you.
To solve this puzzle, you will need to do learn about Kakuro. A
Kakuro consists of a playing area of filled and empty cells similar
to a crossword puzzle. The gray cells contain a diagonal slash from
top left to bottom right with numbers in them. A number in the top
right corner tells you what the “across” sum should be while the
number in the bottom left tells you what the “down” sum should be.
The object of this puzzle is to insert digits from 1-9 into the
white cells to create the sums (the little numbers in the diagonal
boxes). However, no digit can be duplicated in an entry. For
example, to find the sums of “12” (shown in box B2) you could have
2&3&7 or 3&4&5 (and another five other possible
solutions) in the 3 boxes across from “12”, but NOT 4&4&4
(no duplicates!)
To help you get started, note the “3” in box A4. This means the
two boxes below “3” must sum to 3. It’s either going to be 1&2,
or 2&1 (no zeros).
Next you will fill in the following: N 47 _ _._ _ _, 117 _ _._ _ _.
You will notice that the puzzle here has both blue and yellow
shades in certain boxes. Because Kakuro does not allow for zero’s,
and the cache coordinates DO include zero’s, you will use the
yellow boxes that hold the 0’s. These can be thought of as
“freebies”. Enter them in the right sequence and you’re good to go.
The blue boxes contain the other coordinates you’ll need (ten
total). The sequence is left to right by row; i.e., at the end of
each row go down to the next row and continue left to right. You
are smart. You’ll figure it out and be a happy geocacher by day’s
end. I hope so anyway...
YA
P.S. The listed coordinates are for suggested parking. You can park
here or on the old Sprague Highway. To print just the puzzle,
right-click the image with your mouse, click "view image" and then
print it.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ybbx sbe gur pelcg ng gur onfr bs n avpr onfnyg sbezngvba. Jngpu bhg sbe enggyref!
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