"Steal from the rich, and give to the poor!"
If you can figure out how to solve this puzzle, you'll be ready to join Robin Hood's Band of Merry Men.
chair |
cogitate |
crop tax or Giants starter |
era |
estuarine crocodile |
expansion |
kingdom |
lighted cache spot |
monarchs |
pancake |
suggest |
wing |
Special notes about the 2009 Puzzle Challenge:
To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must submit a codeword verifying your solution to certitude. See instructions below for submitting the codeword. All "point" scoring is arbitrary anyway, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and mostly meaningless (top solvers may have received a bottle of wine at the December event). The real challenge is just to see whether you can solve all of these caches by the end of the year.
2009 Puzzle Challenge Solvers
2009 Puzzle Challenge Finders
2009 Puzzle Challenge Event
Special notes about this cache:
Oh no, not another dreaded "identify the photo" cache! Okay, hopefully I've learned my lesson, and this one won't be as tedious as that horrible flower one. But what to do next?
Please restrict your search for the cache to daylight hours only. I did try to clear any nearby poison oak, but that doesn't mean it won't grow back. I recommend that you do NOT park near the posted coordinates, as the path from there is potentially dangerous. I was originally going to rate this at 4/2, but I decided to bump the ratings slightly. Maybe I'll adjust them back depending on feedback. Okay, since some early solvers were shortcutting the puzzle solution, I decided to change the certitude verification scheme as of 9:20pm June 1st. Adjusted difficulty from 4.5 back to 4 on June 2.
First Ten Certified Solutions |
candcfamily |
01 Jun 12:41pm* |
Dotish
xmts |
01 Jun 6:36pm* |
OakDragon
runeshower
Citore |
01 Jun 10:35pm |
jimbexleyspeed
fizzymagic
The Rat |
01 Jun 11:01pm |
bullit
anonymous |
01 Jun 11:47pm |
WalruZ |
01 Jun 11:47pm |
TeamOttlet |
03 Jun 8:42am |
payakoi |
03 Jun 10:16pm |
Moe311
bamsch |
04 Jun 10:48pm |
UncleTom
kindredlaugh |
05 Jun 8:57pm |
*before new certitude verification scheme |
See all solvers |
First Ten Logged Finds |
candcfamily |
01 Jun 6:24pm |
Dotish |
01 Jun 8:57pm |
xmts |
02 Jun 9:36am |
The Rat |
02 Jun 11:00am |
TeamOttlet |
03 Jun 11:36am |
UncleTom |
06 Jun 11:43am |
kindredlaugh |
06 Jun 11:57am |
OakDragon |
06 Jun 3:25pm |
runeshower |
06 Jun 3:25pm |
Citore |
06 Jun 3:28pm |
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To hinder those who were brute-forcing the solution, Certitude uses a codeword for verification of this solution. Create the codeword for Certitude by forming a twelve-character string consisting of the third letter of each final word in the solution (North words followed by West words).
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.