{"id":1679,"date":"2009-08-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:12:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:12:35","slug":"geocaching-the-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Geocaching – the Dark Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday afternoon I went geocaching. I wanted to find five. The first one was a mystery cache named “That’s Just Rid(dle)iculous!!!” <\/a>by M 5. A mystery cache is one where you have to figure out what the coordinates are. I have a few that I’ve put out myself. This one is a devilish little puzzle. The riddle is as follows (With apologies to M 5, I hope that you don’t sue me for copyright infringement.”<\/p>\n

Joe and Bob are having a conversation. Joe asks Bob how old his kids are. Bob says “I have 3 kids and the product of their ages is 36.” Joe thinks about it a minute and says, “That is not enough information.” Bob then exclaims “The sum of their ages is the same number as the number of caches you and I found today.” “That is still not enough information” Joe replies. “My oldest is a muggle” Bob shamefully adds. Joe now knows the ages of all 3 of Bob’s kids. You will have to figure them out as well to complete this cache. Although you will have to use some math, this is more of a problem solving\/reading comprehension puzzle. <\/em><\/div>\n

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Assumptions<\/p><\/div>\n

All ages are rounded to the nearest year, no months, weeks, days, hours or minutes are used in this puzzle.<\/p>\n

When you figure out the ages plug them into these coordsN 36 0A.BC1W 095 51.6C8Place them from youngest to oldest A then B then C<\/em><\/div>\n

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I’ll be honest with you, I could not make heads nor tales out of this, but I thought that I had it figured out due to the numerial requirements of the result. So off I went.<\/div>\n

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Where I parked was about a 1000 feet from where I thought the cache was. I took off, little did I know what I was in for. I doused myself with deet so I had no insect problems but I found lots of scrubby brush and cover. I got within 2 feet of where I thought the cache was but I couldn’t find it. I went under, through, and over the brush, around the trees and under the trees and and tramped around all over the place. I was handicapped because I misplaced my trusty Lowrance Ifinder Hunt GPSr and all I had was my Garmin Nuvi 500 crossover cache which is basically a highway GPSr and didn’t work too well in the heavy tree cover.<\/div>\n

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I spent almost two hours looking for the darn thing before I gave up. I wasn’t sure whether I had the right coordinates and I didn’t have faith in my GPSr either.<\/div>\n

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Believe it or not I did have fun though. For two hours I completely forgot the cares of the world and was totally focused on something. I didn’t get it this time but I’ll find it eventually. I’ll probably wait until after the first frost when the undergrowth will die back. In the meantime I’ll either find my regular GPSr or get another. I’ll email M5 and ask him to confirm the coordinates (I will never ask for the coordinates if I had them wrong). I’ll study the riddle some more and look again and I’ll find it.<\/div>\n

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In the meantime I have some souvenirs of my outing.<\/div>\n

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Anybody out there up for a cache run?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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