The Year of the Dog Mystery Cache
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Co-operative Puzzle Caching comes to the South Coast!
Needless to say the cache is not at these co-ordinates. If you go there you will get very wet or muddy or both, depending on the state of the tide.
Ox = X = 1877
Rabbit
Ox
Ox
Goat
Ox
Goat = ABCD
Rooster
Ox = Y = 1949
Rabbit
Ox
Goat
Rabbit = EFGH
Rooster
Ox
Rabbit
Goat = JKLM
Rabbit
Rooster
Goat
Rooster = Z = 2029
This is a sequence of ever increasing Chinese years. To solve the puzzle you will need to determine the connection between X, Y and Z and thus the years represented by ABCD, EFGH and JKLM.
So what about this Co-Operative thing? Well that is the first stage of the Puzzle. You need to know the years X, Y and Z before the puzzle can be solved. Interested solvers (or anyone else for that matter) can make guesses to which years X, Y, Z are. This is done by posting notes to this cache page. I will then give guidance on whether the guesses are correct, too high or too low.
When each year has been guessed correctly, I will update the page and add it to the puzzle. When all three years have been guessed correctly, I will add a Geochecker to the cache page.
Only one guess for X, Y and Z from each cacher please. That means you can use you 3 guesses up in one posting by guessing X, Y and Z together, or use 3 separate postings to guess X, Y and Z separately. I wonder who will just go for it, and who will be a bit canny?
The Co-operative stage is now over. Correct gueses were submitted by :
Madchatter X = 1877
PealRinger Y = 1949
PealRinger Z = 2029
The Year of the Dog cache can be found at :
N50 [C + D] G . H D L W00L [H – J] [F – K] . [M – J] G F
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gjva Gehaxf. Nebhaq gur onpx.
Cyrnfr er-uvqr nf sbhaq, ohg znxr fher vg qbrfa'g snyy va!