By agreement of the members of the creation team, The Sussex Olympic Rings group of 65 caches will be archived on September 19th, 2016. Thanks for your understanding.
This series of 65 puzzle caches has been placed to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Each ring is set by different cachers and contains 11 or 12 hides plus a bonus. The whole design is over 4km across. You will need to find all caches for a ring in order to find the bonus and complete the ring.
There are three Medal caches above the rings, Bronze, Silver and Gold. See the Bonus cache descriptions for how to find them. See the Gold Medal cache page for full series credits.
Note the cache is not at the published co-ordinates.
At the time of placing, the cache contains the logbook, a small pencil and sharpener (though best to bring your own pen), and a few swaps including some Olympic/Paralympic goodies!
Parking
Two significant, free, parking locations have been added as waypoints on all the Yellow Ring caches. These are not necessarily the best place to park for all the caches, but you should consider them seriously where they are reasonably near the final co-ordinates you have successfully had confirmed by GeoCheck. Where more appropriate parking locations are available, some of these have been noted as parking waypoints in Geocheck. You may be able to download these.
2012 Summer Paralympic Games Crossword
Stage 1
N 51° 0A.BCD W 0° 0E.FGH
where
A= N11-H6-S8
B= (F17-Q12)/E3
C= R13/I11
D= J7-K4
E= H15-P2-Q12
F= J5+B10-G13
G= O1-E9
H= P15-A11
As you may have noticed from the Enable Listing note on 04/10/2013 (Geocaching date format), we have had to locate a replacement cache a little way away from the original, as the original hide has deteriorated to the extent that it does not provide good camo. This has necessitated creating new post-Geocheck information and formulae to determine final cache location.
For new solvers of this puzzle, Stage 2 will be described once you have passed Geocheck
For those who have already solved the puzzle to get them to Stage 1 and have the Stage 2 formulae printed pending a visit to Stage 1 for the necessary data to obtain the final co-ordinates, we are placing the NEW FORMULAE on the cache page, here below, to avoid you needing to re-enter Geocheck. There is no further checking facility for this stage so get your maths right! You will still need to go and get correct information for J,K,L,M,N and P.
PLEASE PUT YOUR OLD FORMULAE IN THE BIN RIGHT NOW SO AS NOT TO GET MIXED UP!!!!!
Stage 2
N 51° 0A.BCD W 0° 0E.FGH
where
A = K
BCD = (JK x LP) + (JK / P) + P
E = N - P
FGH = (LM x LP) + JK
Note: the hint has also been changed.
