This cache has been placed in honour of Pi Day 2015, the ultimate Pi Day!
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world, and this year's celebration is considered the ultimate Pi Day, specifically on 3-14-15 at 9:26:53. Pi (the Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.141592653, a number that continues infinitely without repetition or pattern and which has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond the decimal point!
More importantly, unless you're a mathematician, Pi(e) is also a delicious food! You'll need some savvy Pi and pie knowledge to solve the puzzle below!
To celebrate the mystery of Pi on such a momentous Pi Day, geocachers will earn a special souvenir for finding a mystery cache on 3-14-15!
Soooo, here's a mystery cache for all Perth area geocachers to nab your Pi Day souvenir; get the Pi Day event souvenir by attending our get-together at Tim Horton's :)
Finding this cache will take 'careful and precise' calculation, so please follow the directions below very closely!
http://www.piecouncil.org/Events/NationalPieDay/HistoryOfPies
1- Please visit the link above to learn some of the history of pie from the American Pie Council. How many times does the word pie appear on this page?
2- According to the APC, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that pie was a popular word by which century? Add this two digit number to the previous answer.
3- Add to this total the average number of blueberries used to make a standard blueberry pie.
4- Add to this total the number of pies you have eaten (in any context, including at home, in a restaurant, at a geocaching event, etc.).
5- If you have baked more than ten pies, regardless of flavour, subtract 82.
6- Add 1000.
7- Pi will continue infinitely without pattern or repetition; to honour this randomness, subtract a random number between 1 and 314.
8- Add the number of digits to which you have memorized Pi.
9- If all this talk of Pi has tempted you to use decimals, please round to the nearest whole number. Write down the resulting number and call it A; write its reverse and call it B (if A is 123 then B is 321).
10- Which of these numbers is smaller, A or B? Subtract the smaller number of these two from the larger.
11- Find the digital root of the result (total the individual numbers until you reach a single digit; for example 375 would be calculated 3+7+5= 15, then 1+5=6, meaning the digital root of 375 is 6).
So, you've got a single digit?
To find the North coordinates of the cache's location, multiply your result by 9 and subtract 3. Add this number to the least significant digits of the posted North coordinates (.600).
To find the West coordinates of the cache's location, multiply your result by 2 and subtract 4. Add this number to the least significant digits of the posted West coordinates (.300).
Here's a geochecker just in case :)
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
The FTF this cache will find a 'golden ticket' redeemable for one free pie at our '3-14-15- It's Pi Day!' geocaching event!
So, the big question; will you wait for Pi Day and use this mystery cache to get your souvenir, or will you jump on the FTF? Either way is fair game!
Be sure to bring a writing stick. The terrain rating will be lowered to 1.5 when the snow disappears, at the moment there is a bit of snow to climb over but after that it's an easy path to the cache, still no worse than a 2 terrain.
