Solve Professor Zamen's tricky photo puzzle to locate the fifth Time Crystal in your quest to help the Guardians of Time. Discover the coordinates of the crystal from the clues and find the required symbol to access the Time Crystal Portal. The cache is not located at the published coordinates. There is no need to go there. Please do not attempt this quest at night.
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The Guardians of Time have a problem. A micro-fracture in the Canvas of Eternity has appeared. Time is slipping away, quite literally, and someone needs to enter the Time Crystal Portal (GC5M54B) to make repairs. But there is a problem. Nobody has accessed the Time Crystal Portal for centuries and its location has been forgotten. All that remains is a remote console to the portal in the Hall of Forever. It displays an array of meaningless symbols and all that the Guardians know is that when the correct six symbols are selected on the console then the location of the Time Crystal Portal will be revealed.
Many cycles ago, there was a man who knew all of the secrets of Time. However, he has long since gone to the great egg-timer in the sky, but apparently he fabricated six Time Crystals (each embossed with one of the symbols to activate the Time Crystal Portal) and securely deposited them in time-resistant boxes around the Herts-Beds border. Each powerful crystal can never be in close proximity with another for fear of disrupting the fragile time canvas even further. However, if a brave Time Scout was prepared to venture forth to discover the six symbols emblazoned on these crystals and returned in one piece to activate the Time Crystal Portal then all of humanity would be indebted to them for all eternity.
Fortunately, recent intelligence has revealed that Professor Zamen of the University of Flux, has gained knowledge of the location of the six Time Crystals. He will not give up this infomation easily, but has set a series of puzzles to lead any intrepid Time Scout who earnestly seeks the crystals to their hiding spot.
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The Cache
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"Ladies and gentleman, this is puzzle number five", announced Professor Zamen to an expectant audience at the University of Flux. He seemed very satisfied with himself as he presented his latest conundrum to his students. "In order to obtain the coordinates for the fifth Time Crystal I have devised a simple yet clever photo cipher that is harder than many of my other problems ... but only a little bit." He fired up a PowerPoint presentation with pictures of five ladies clearly displayed and continued his explanation. "Use these five photographs to discover the values for 'a' through 'e' and then put them into the following formula." |
North 51 58.abc West 000 26.dee
The assembled students fell silent as they rapidly started scratching away in their notebooks. Professor Zamen smiled to himself as he left the auditorium and quietly murmured "That should keep them occupied for a while". One student even noticed an almost imperceptible hip wiggle as he disappeared through the doorway. He was clearly very happy with his latest puzzle.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Congratulations to DJ:CD on the FTF!