Solve the logic problem and discover the coordinates for the sixth Time Crystal in your quest to help the Guardians of Time. This cache requires some brain-scratching, but a logical approach should bring success and enable you to obtain the required symbol to access the Time Portal. The cache is not at the published coordinates. Please do not go there. Please do not attempt to visit this cache at night.
NOTE: The final location was changed in April 2018. Please open the briefcase again. The puzzle has not changed.
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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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Professor Zaman hands you a modified briefcase. "I have concealed the coordinates of the sixth time crystal inside this briefcase with an electronic lock. The lock has nine electrical terminals (numbered 1-9 in three rows of three) to which nine coloured wires (Blue, Gold, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red, White and Yellow) emerging from the briefcase hinges need to be attached in the correct arrangement."
"I forgot the combination years ago", he continues, "but fortunately, a fragment of parchment, thought to have been lost forever, has recently been discovered. Perhaps there is enough information here for you to unlock the briefcase and retrieved the coordinates of the Time Crystal." And with that the professor left.
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