This is a mystery cache. The listed coordinates are NOT for the
final cache. You must solve the puzzle below to determine the final
coordinates. The final coordinates are within 2 miles of the listed
coordinates. The listed coordinates provide an appropriate place
for parking. This cache may be difficult in the winter if there is
more than 2 feet of snow on the ground.
This area provides a nice walk through woods that were hit hard
by the ice storm of December 2008.
RASH Puzzle Rules: The clues are
mixtures of components (words or syllables) that, when verbally
replaced with appropriate counterparts, will integrate into answers
that correspond to the puzzle’s theme.
- Relatives are like things. Apples and oranges
are relatives in the fruit family; Cupid and Blitzen are relatives
in Santa’s reindeer; Mars and Jupiter are relatives in the
family of planets.
- Antonyms are opposites: black and white, will
and won’t, now and then.
- Synonyms are different words with similar
meanings: yellow and amber, cold and brisk, trash and rubbish, near
and close.
- Homophones/homonyms. Homophones are pronounced
the same, have different meanings, and may or may not have the same
spelling: merry, marry and Mary. Homonyms have the same spelling
and pronunciation but different meanings: bank (edge of a river,
carom, or depository).
Here are a few explanatory notes to help you solve:
- If you can get a part of a clue, you can usually reason through
the twisted combination of “nyms” to get the whole
answer.
- Some homonyms are not exact, but close. For example,
day may be as close as we could get to Dave. Such
rough homonyms are denoted in italics to alert the solver
to beware.
- Hyphens separate partial word (usually a syllable) clues. For
example, Craft-panel could translate to Art
(synonym for craft) – jury (synonym for panel). This
could represent Archery (translating the appropriate
homophones).
- Multiple words with no spaces or hyphens constitute a single
syllable or word. (For example, foursidedfigure could be replaced
by square, rhombus, rectangle, etc.)
- Underlined words or letters are not replaced; they are left
as-is. For example, the remains untranslated as the
in the answer.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.