A few years ago, the town of Berlin was selling bricks as part of
the fundraising effort to build a new playground. Donors could
specify the text to be printed on the bricks, and the bricks would
be used to pave the entrance to the playground.
We bought a brick, and chose some text that was appropriate for
the location (it is grammatically incorrect, but it was
intentional). When the playground was built and the bricks were
installed, we saw that nearly every brick other than ours just has
the name of a person or family or business on it, so ours is a
little bit different.
Your task: go to the listed coordinates and find our brick,
based on the above description. Calculate the coords for the final
cache location as follows:
X = total number of words on our brick * total
number of letters on our brick
Y = X - number of punctuation characters on our
brick
N.NNN = X * 0.1755
W.WWW = Y * 0.5288
(Note: the asterisk
(*) indicates multiplication.)
Final coords = N 42° 2N.NNN W 71° 3W.WWW
Directions:
The first waypoint is the playground at South Commons, on South
Street, next to the Berlin Memorial School. This is an area
frequented by children, so you might want to either bring some of
your own along as decoys, or go at a time when parents are not
likely to eye you suspiciously. (Or you go could any time -- just
bring a camera, and stand there conspicuously taking pictures of
the bricks. Probably no one will give you a second glance, in that
case.)
The final location is a short drive away (less than 5 minutes).
Parking for the final is at an offset (from the final) of N+0.015,
W+0.107. There's no real parking area; just park at the side of the
road next to the field. There used to be a mown grass path here,
but it's mostly overgrown by mid-summer; just walk through the
field past the birdhouses. (Don't walk down the nearby dirt road;
that leads to an unpleasant bushwhack.) Tree cover may interfere
with satellite coverage at the final.