United PI-Day 2015 – B – Mystery Mystery Cache
United PI-Day 2015 – B – Mystery
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| This cache is part of United Pi-Day 2015, a worldwide project involving traditional, mystery, and event caches--21 caches in all!--and the geocachers who find them. |
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Look for ways to connect with other participants in United Pi-Day. Visit a nearby cache to learn Sacramento's secret, but you will need Fellbach's (GER), Zaragoza's (ESP), and others. Stay tuned ... |
One goal of this project is to link geocaching around the world. So to solve this puzzle, you will need information from the other caches. A secret code was hidden in the nearby Sacramento traditional cache. Go find that cache and take note of the secret code. Visit the other traditional caches in the series to gather the other secret codes. When you have the secret codes from the other caches, you can get to work on this one (and the other mysteries!).
Step 1: Collect the secret codes from the Pi Day caches: A, B, D, E, G, H, M, and X.
Step 2: Create interim results π1, π2, and π3 as follows:
π1 = H + X
π2 = B + E
π3 = A + D + G + M
Step 3: Concatenate π1, π2, and π3 together to an 8-character string. Call it Z.
Step 4: Find where this string first appears in the decimal digits of π. (There are online utilities that can do this.) This result is your keyword. The numeric string Z first appears at the ?st decimal digit of π. For example, if Z were 14159265, then your keyword would be 1.
Step 5: Enter the keyword into Certitude to get the actual coordinates and a hint.
Bring a pen and your TOTT. Be extra stealthy here. $2 bill to the first finder!
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Guvegl-cyhf srrg rnfg naq svsgrra srrg hc sebz onfr bs gur fvta