Hey Bill... Check this out. I've been working on putting together that other multi/puzzle cache. It's not finished though.
See what you can do with it.
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M.O.A.C. 8

The given coordinates are not for any part of this 3-stage multi/puzzle cache. It is simply a random point in town.

Before you even leave your computer the fun begins… To find Stage 1, you must solve a double cipher… So I ask, how are you with your BINARY CODE?

01110100011010000110011101101001010001010110010101 10010101110010011010000101010001110100011010000110 01110110100101000101011101000110111001101001011011 11010100000111010001101000011001110110100101000101 01111001011101000110111001100101011101110101010001 11001101100101011001010111001001100111011001010100 01000111001001110101011011110100011001111001011101 00011100100110100101101000010101000000110100001010 00001101000010100110010001101110010000010000110100 00101000001101000010100110010101100101011100100110 10000101010001100101011011100110100101001110011001 01011011100110100101001110011101000110100101101110 01101111010100000111100101110100011011100110010101 11011101010100011100110110010101100101011100100110 01110110010101000100011011100110010101100101011101 00011100100111010101101111010001100110010001100101 01110010011001000110111001110101010010000110010101 10111001001111



Stage 1

First you will need to find the years that this metal “box” was in service. Next, find the pertinent street number for where this item now resides.

Put yer math hats on…

Add all three of these numbers, and then split the answer down the middle (NOT in half). Add the two “pieces” to each other and you’ll have the key to decipher these coordinates for Stage 2:
67* 51.693 N
447* 53.002 W

Stage 2

Simply find the full name of Lake Havasu City’s pioneer as it is printed on the plaque (Hint: Tim Allen would have LOVED this man!!!) ***LOCALS, NO CHEATING***

This name is the key to the 3rd and final stage.


Stage 3 (Final)

If you paid attention in math class and “used your head for something besides a hat rack…” as my Daddy used to say, you should be at the cache. The container is

 

I dont know binary....but the decoders on the net are not making any sense of your code........example:


01110100011010000110011101101001010001010110010101

translates to:

thgiEe

 

That's right. Decode the whole thing. Not one line at a time.

 

So Bill... Does the first part make sense yet? Remember, it's a double cipher... But it's an easy one.

 

Well....my understanding is that after ciphering the binary....the "out of place" letters need to be "unscrambled".....but I have not had the time to find out if my assumptions are correct.....

 

The letters are just backwards... Read it from right to left.

It should have come out looking like this:

thgiEeerhTthgiEtnioPthgiEytnewTseergeDruoFytrihT

dnA

eerhTeniNeniNtinoPytnewTseergeDneetruoFderdnuHenO

 

It's easy once you convert the binary.

 

OK, so keep going with the numbers I gave to fill in the blanks...

Lats and Longs for:

Stage 1?


Stage 2?

 

Stage 2 I'm still trying to find which pioneer they're refering to but...
Stage 1:
Binary to text =
thgiEeerhTthgiEtnioPthgiEytnewTseergeDruoFytrihT
dnA
eerhTeniNeniNtinoPytnewTseergeDneetruoFderdnuHenO

reversed =
Thirty Four Degrees Twenty Eight Point Eight Three Eight (34* 28.838)
And
One Hundred Fourteen Degrees Twenty Point Nine Nine Three (114*20.993)

1960
1970
+320
------
4250 split in half and add 42+50=92

I'm working on the rest....

 

You good or do you need a hint?

I guess this could be considered "Beta testing" for my puzzles...

Let me know if you need a hint, maybe you can help me write that part better so people can understand it without giving things away...

 

For the pioneer part, you'd have to figure out the cipher with the math problem and go to the coords that you end up with. There's a plaque there with a statue of Robert P. McCulloch, Sr. (Hence the hint - McCulloch...Chainsaws...Tim Allen... Get it?)and CV Woods.

Tical,
This is a puzzle cache I'm developing to be placed sometime soon, not somebody elses... RobertPMcCullochSr will be the final key for the final set of coords when I find a worthy location in or near town.

 

After that post I decided it would be a good idea to actually go back and do some work.
Now the phones are down and I can't do work

I'm not sure what 92 has to do with 67* 51.693 N, 447* 53.002.

This is actually the first of these problems I've done and don't even really know what I'm doing. Just thought I'd take a look since I have nothing else to do.

 

Hmmm... Phones are down? We haven't been able to successfully dial phone numbers in Phoenix, AZ all day from our landlines, but via cell phone, we can.

9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1

Is there a better way to phrase what I already written for this part?

 

Bill, any input on making my puzzle any better, or more easily understood, without giving anything away?

 

To be honest.....I have not had time to look at it in depth.....I have been going over resumes all day and trying to finish my truck dock design specs.....