Can anyone figure this out

Larkspeed

Larkspeed

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Since there are a lot of people on this forum a lot smarter than me I figured I would put this here:

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Can anyone figure that out.

Somehow you have to turn those circles into the numbers needed to complete the GPS coordinates.

I have been stuck on this one for days and just can't figure it out.

when you think you have it you can check it here:

http://geocheck.org/geo_inputchkcoord.php?gid=6105911792c7d73-7942-4a6b-a40e-d3220258b5ad

This is for something called geocaching I'm sure some of you will have heard of it or even take part in in. This is the final part of a multi puzzle cache I have done all the others I just can't get through this one.
 
Is the answer that I go and open the packet of peanut M&Ms that have been taunting me from the kitchen all evening?
 
i'd make the rough, and uneducated yet thoughtful guess as follows:

assuming the 3 dials respond to the xxx and yyy in the co-ordinates, and there can obv only be 0-9 on the dials, divide up the circle into ten portions and number them according to that. then your shaded section will point to 2 options [at one end or the other].

that would give you at least 2 locations to search.

thats either the right answer or not, up to you if you want to run about a field trying it

edit: alternately the shaded section could indicate the point of an arrow, thats 3 locations. i'm not doing the maths lol
 
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that would give you hundreds of locations.

2 groups of 3 digits two possibilities for each digit.

That's a lot of possible combinations
 
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Larkspeed said:
that would give you hundreds of locations.

2 groups of 3 digits two possibilities for each digit anywhere between 0 and 9.

That's a lot of possible combinations
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i dont know how devious the person who set the challenge is, but i'd assume it would all be the same direction for each shaded section otherwise the challenge would, as you pointed out, be simply too hard.

using the 3rd technique, could say for example:

x=005 y=802

thats roughly ofc, i couldnt be bothered to draw them out and the minds eye gets confised easily lol
 
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adolf hamster said:
i'd make the rough, and uneducated yet thoughtful guess as follows:

assuming the 3 dials respond to the xxx and yyy in the co-ordinates, and there can obv only be 0-9 on the dials, divide up the circle into ten portions and number them according to that. then your shaded section will point to 2 options [at one end or the other].

that would give you at least 2 locations to search.

thats either the right answer or not, up to you if you want to run about a field trying it
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I thought the same thing but all the shadings seem equal :confused: Also the checker rejects it haha.
 
adolf hamster said:
i'd make the rough, and uneducated yet thoughtful guess as follows:

assuming the 3 dials respond to the xxx and yyy in the co-ordinates, and there can obv only be 0-9 on the dials, divide up the circle into ten portions and number them according to that. then your shaded section will point to 2 options [at one end or the other].
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Don't think it's 0-9. The middle shape of X differs fractionally from the middle shape of Y.

Since you can express coords as hours, minutes, seconds, I wonder if you could divide up the shapes into 60 equal parts instead of 10?

Just thinking out loud, I have no idea :p

Edit: also you don't know if the dark blue is the top of the shape or the bottom. So the first two could be 12 o'clock or 6 o'clock.
 
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both 005 802 and 884 788 are incorrect

FoxEye said:
Don't think it's 0-9. The middle shape of X differs fractionally from the middle shape of Y.

Since you can express coords as hours, minutes, seconds, I wonder if you could divide up the shapes into 60 equal parts instead of 10?

Just thinking out loud, I have no idea :p
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it's using the WGS84 datum for the coordinates which is Degrees and Decimal minutes to three places

each digit must be between 0 and 9
 
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positive

as an example it looks like this:

N 52° 45.495 E 006° 53.843 as do all coordinates in Geocaching
 
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Mynight said:
Quick query, is this hint from the page relevant? i.e do the other pages hints actually help solve the qeustions?

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The hint is intended to help you spot the cache when you reach the coordinates not help you figure out the coordinates.

For instance one of the others in the series the hint is Under because the cache is under something at the coordinates but you still had to solve the puzzle to know where to look
 
Larkspeed said:
The hint is intended to help you spot the cache when you reach the coordinates not help you figure out the coordinates.

For instance one of the others in the series the hint is Under because the cache is under something at the coordinates but you still had to solve the puzzle to know where to look
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Argh right my apologies. Explains why you didn't tell us about the hint :D.
 
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