I’ve been geocaching for about a year now. I’ve gotten all the easy caches in my area. After reading THIS thread, I’ve been inspired to tackle some puzzle caches.
In my area, there is a few Sudoku related puzzles - no problem there.
There was a morse code/rail fence cipher puzzle - a little tricky but I got it.
There was a Navajo ‘WindTalker’ code - Easy once I found a translation.
I don’t even know where to start. I guess I should be doing some type of addition or subtraction? WTF? I’m sure I’m missing something obvious, but what?
There’s what was screwing me up. I was thinking numbers - but I knew there wasn’t a y in any number. The longer ones probably have the word hundred in them.
Thanks for a push in the right direction. I think I can figure it out from here.
I’ve gotten them all figured out - mostly. Here’s the last puzzle
RdhrofitntioyhteeeeyuutdnytfonearrhfrifduoudwwndUgeeifrgndohoohfnevtefasedthsthvodnyedntdtihnus
Which unscrambles to
Thousand
Thousand
Hundred
hundred
hundred
hundred
eight
eight
forty
forty
two
two
one
one
fifty
fifty
five
seven
which could be
148,257-148,255= 2
248,157-248,155=2
842,157-842,155=2
841,257-841,255=2
but that’s one number for two letters.
is it I=0, J=2?
Is it I=2, J=2?
or, is it not two?
142,855-142,758= 97
Perfect! I=9, J=7 right? nope!
plus the spaces to work. there should be 48 numbers in the first word and 47 in the second. there’s two odd numbers that don’t have a pair - five and seven. There’s one more letter in ‘seven’ than there is in ‘five’. So logic says that 7 should be in the first part and 5 in the second.
I put all the numbers in to check the coords and I just can’t get it to work.