From the puzzle questions, it must be clear which attraction
this refers to. They also have there own website, with a link to a
website where all the answers to the questions below can be
obtained from. Apologies for this cache being a micro, but the
terrain/area does not allow for anything bigger. Also, as this is a
university and depending on what time you do this cache, this area
may be a high muggle area. As they have night time shows here, it
should be a nice cache to do at night.
THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE GIVEN CO-ORDINATES. To determine
the actual co-ordinates you will have to unravel the following
puzzle. Actual co-ordinates to be: S 26 XX.XXX E 28 YY.YYY The
puzzle will give you the XX.XXX and YY.YYY.
The Puzzle:
Below are statements about certain of our planets. Write down
the name of each planet every statement refers to. Once you have
these answers, extract out of each answer the following characters:
i.e. If your first answer is Pluto, then the character is
“u”.
From answer 1 the 3rd character
From answer 2 the 2nd character
From answer 3 the 4th character
From answer 4 the character following the 2nd character
alphabetically
From answer 5 the character following the last character
alphabetically
Now convert these characters to numeric values, where a=1, b=2,
c=3, …, i=9, but j=0. Substitute these values for
XX.XXX
From answer 6 the 1st character
From answer 7 the 2nd character
From answer 8 the character following the 2nd character
alphabetically
From answer 9 the character that comes before the 1st character
alphabetically
From answer 10 the character following the 2nd character
alphabetically
Now convert these characters to numeric values, where a=1, b=2,
c=3, …, i=9, but j=0. Substitute these values for YY.YYY
By now you will have the actual co-ordinates, so off you go!
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
Statements on our planets:
1. This planet is also the ancient Greek deity of the heavens, the
earliest supreme god. Ariel is one of its moons/satellites.
2. This planet has two prominent rings and one faint ring that can
be seen from the Earth.
3. In Roman mythology this planet is named after the god of
commerce, travel and thievery.
4. The only planet whose English name does not derive from
Greek/Roman mythology.
5. This planet is named after the Roman mythology god of the
sea.
6. This is by far the largest planet.
7. This planet has the largest mountain in the Solar System rising
24 km (78,000 ft.) above the surrounding plain, namely Olympus
Mons.
8. This planet is the brightest object in the sky except for the
Sun and the Moon.
9. Europa is one of this planet’s satellites/moons.
10. This planet’s orbit is the most nearly circular of that
of any planet.