# Anyone up for a coordinates puzzle challenge

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-a-coordinates-puzzle-challenge/634703>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 14, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-a-coordinates-puzzle-challenge/634703 "2012-09-14T16:08:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-a-coordinates-puzzle-challenge/634703/1 "2012-09-14T16:08:37Z")

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Try to obtain the final numbers in this [set of coordinates](http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/35a64899-3ee9-4031-8b2a-b5420b24370b.jpg) using this [table as a reference](http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/d834d020-dd82-446a-89de-f84e9ae99505.jpg).

This might be related to ships or docks. I’ve exhausted my google-fu.

Full disclosure: This is from a geocache puzzle - however I don’t live near it and can’t log it, I am doing this only to satisfy my curiosity. Normally I’m pretty good at these…

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**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-a-coordinates-puzzle-challenge/634703/2 "2012-09-14T18:07:44Z")

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How about a link to the cache page? I’ve solved a fair number of difficult puzzle caches, and sometimes there are clues on the cache page.

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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-a-coordinates-puzzle-challenge/634703/3 "2012-09-14T20:07:54Z")

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> [@PaperBlob](#):
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> How about a link to the cache page? I’ve solved a fair number of difficult puzzle caches, and sometimes there are clues on the cache page.

Here you go:

> **[Laser Beans: On the Waterfront](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3WAAG_laser-beans-on-the-waterfront)**
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> Use a smartphone or GPS device to navigate to the provided coordinates, which will then lead you to one or more locations. Look for a regular hidden container. When you find it, write your name and date in the logbook. If you take something from the...

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**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-a-coordinates-puzzle-challenge/634703/4 "2012-09-15T00:24:24Z")

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Thanks, I’ll check it out. Could be a while though, you know how these puzzle caches go sometimes!