IQ Test #2 was cache find number 1,000 today.
This puzzle cache stumped me about a year ago, although I didn’t pursue it very hard. I plotted the waypoints on a map, thought I saw the start of a pattern, but couldn’t figure it out. I never did try computing azimuth and distance between the waypoints—something that is mentioned in the description. That proved to be the key, and the solution to the puzzle became readily apparent.
I wasn’t sure I believed my answer though, because it was about 50 yards from another cache. I decided to go ahead and check and sure enough, found the cache.
Using “findstats” on all my cache logs, I get the following:
1000 unique caches. 1000 finds logged. Centroid = N 37 35.844, W 121 33.780 Avg. Difficulty = 1.79 Avg. Terrain = 1.78 Avg. Challenge = 2.14 247 hard<br>caches (25%) 1 countries 4 US states 0 multiple finds (0%) 76 (7.6%) archived First log: 09/23/2004 Last log: 03/21/2006 Most finds: 25 on 11/13/2005 Maximum one-day distance: 240.9 miles on 12/9/2004 From N 37 42.848, W 121 28.604 to N 37 42.629, W 125 52.446 Oldest cache: #121 (GC79) Newest cache: #360360 (GCTWRE) Difficulty: 1.0: 255 (25.5%) 1.5: 275 (27.5%) 2.0: 281 (28.1%) 2.5: 82 ( 8.2%) 3.0: 66 ( 6.6%) 3.5: 20 ( 2.0%) 4.0: 17 ( 1.7%) 4.5: 2 ( 0.2%) 5.0: 2 ( 0.2%) Terrain: 1.0: 349 (34.9%) 1.5: 256 (25.6%) 2.0: 141 (14.1%) 2.5: 98 ( 9.8%) 3.0: 87 ( 8.7%) 3.5: 39 ( 3.9%) 4.0: 26 ( 2.6%) 4.5: 4 ( 0.4%) D T 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 +---------------------------------------------- 1.0 | 151 51 27 15 9 2 1.5 | 69 105 32 32 18 12 6 1 2.0 | 69 53 51 32 43 19 12 2 2.5 | 24 17 13 12 10 4 2 3.0 | 23 22 10 3 5 1 1 1 3.5 | 5 4 5 3 1 1 1 4.0 | 6 3 3 1 4 4.5 | 1 1 5.0 | 1 1 You have found 53 out of 81 total Diff/Terr combinations. Cache types: 1 ( 0.1%) Earthcache 5 ( 0.5%) Event Cache 1 ( 0.1%) Letterbox Hybrid 4 ( 0.4%) Locationless (Reverse) Cache 40 ( 4.0%) Multi-cache 1 ( 0.1%) Project APE Cache 870 (87.0%) Traditional Cache 53 ( 5.3%) Unknown Cache 24 ( 2.4%) Virtual Cache 1 ( 0.1%) Webcam Cache Containers: 6 ( 0.6%) Large 364 (36.4%) Micro 34 ( 3.4%) Not chosen 28 ( 2.8%) Other 388 (38.8%) Regular 155 (15.5%) Small 25 ( 2.5%) Virtual Countries: 996 in United States US States: 968 in California 3 in Idaho 21 in Oregon 4 in Washington
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