Shuffling Squares Mystery Cache
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Percy MacMahon (1854-1929) was a British mathematician who also dabbled in puzzles. One of the things he came up with is known as MacMahon Squares. If you take a square and draw the diagonals on it, it can be viewed as composed of 4 triangular segments. And if each one of those segments is one of three possible colors, it would be possible to create 24 different squares.
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Percy figured out that it was possible to arrange the 24 squares such that the edges of adjacent squares always match in color AND the outside edge is always a single color.
Here's one solution that follows his rules. It turns out that there are 13,328 of them.
So, what does that have to do with this cache?
Here is a (different) partial solution. You'll want to print it out. And get out your scissors - here are the squares necessary to complete the solution and figure out the coordinates.
The cache is hidden at N43 0A.BCD W077 2E.FGH. It is a medium sized camo'ed lock-n-lock containing some pins to trade. The cache is located not far from a trail, so bushwhacking should not be necessary.
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Congratulations go out to neogeo585 for an early morning FTF.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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