The cache is not at the listed coordinates but that is a good place to park. Solve the puzzles below and enter your solutions into Certitude to receive the coordinates.
Quordle is playing four simulaneous games of Wordle. Each guess is scored on each of four puzzles representing different secret words.
A green letter is in the word and in the correct spot.
A yellow letter is in the word but in the wrong spot.
A gray letter is not in the word in any spot.
In the game below, you have guessed GAMES and CACHE. Lucky you, you have eliminated all but one possible word in the first three puzzles. What are the solutions to these three puzzles?
[Technical note: all secret words are from the pool of original Wordle possible solutions, and when I say you have eliminated all but one possible word, that includes eliminating all of Wordle's allowable guesses in addition to the possible solutions. But possibly you could think of an uncommon word that is another solution.]
In the fourth puzzle, you were not as lucky, and there are 8 possible words left. I will tell you they are: hoard aphid khaki wharf loath thank wrath abhor. What is your best play? That is, which word, if not the solution, is guaranteed to eliminate all but one word no matter which word is the secret word?
For the coords, enter the four words without spaces into the checker.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Beware of Wavyleaf Basketgrass (WLBG) in the area:
Wavyleaf basketgrass was first discovered in Maryland in 1996 in Patapsco Valley State Park, near Baltimore MD. It has since spread through Maryland and Virginia, showing many of the qualities of a successful and damaging invasive species. In some areas this shade-tolerant grass completely carpets the forest floor, leaving little room for native species. Its perennial life style enables it to emerge, year after year, through thick leaf litter; allowing it to colonize vast areas of forest inaccessible to annual invasive grasses like stilt-grass. Its insidious dispersal method of offering dozens of goo-covered seeds atop a spiky inflorescence ensures it hitches a ride on nearly anything mobile that brushes past: people, dogs and deer, definitely; small mammals and birds, probably. Also, nothing appears to eat it. Imagine the ecological consequences of large swaths of forest monopolized by an inedible under-story. Please do your best to stop the spread of this very invasive species. Do not walk through it if you see it and take care not to get the seeds on your clothing or on your pets.
Approved by Maryland DNR.
Maryland Geocaching Society
Congrats to EntropyEndeavor for the fast First to Solve and also First to Find!