GC1MD18 The Challenger
Type: Mystery | Size: Not chosen | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Dndsterns @ | Hide Date: 02/04/2009 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 57.166 W104° 46.528 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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If you are up for a challenge you will have to solve the puzzle. Use only whole numbers, round up. below to find the cache.

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38 5(A+5).(B)(C)(D-1)

104 4(E).(F)(G)(H)

A = Two geocachers stand in front of a gumball machine with a hand full of pennies. The machine has 35 red gumballs and 35 blue gumballs. Every time they put a penny in the machine they get a gumball. How many pennies will they use before they are guaranteed to get 2 gumballs of the same color?

B = The grandfather clock chimes once for every hour. If it takes the clock 3 seconds to chime at three o’clock, how long will it take the grandfather clock to chime 6 times at six o’clock?

C = George decided to throw a party and invited the following people: his father’s brother-in-law, his brother’s father-in-law, his father-in-law’s brother, and his brother-in-law’s father. How many people did George invite to the party?
George married his first cousin

D = There once was a bug who crawled down a ruler. It crawled from the 12-inch mark to the 6-inch mark in 12 seconds. How many seconds will it take him to reach the 1-inch mark?

E = &

F = If 5 fishermen can catch 5 fish in five minutes, how long will it take 50 fishermen to catch 50 fish?

G = $

H = %

& + & + % + $ = 17
& + % + % + $ = 14
& + % + $ + $ = 13

Additional Waypoints

02/06/2019 By Berb57
This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

02/06/2019 By Berb57
Geochecker is invalid.

11/09/2018 By Back Country Horsemen
Solved this one last winter on a puzzle solving frenzy but had to wait until fall to find it. With all the leaves I was afraid I would be digging for a while but I actually found it pretty quickly.

08/07/2018 By Kerewin0430
Have had this one solved for a long time and have looked unsuccessfully for it a few times over the past year. Noticed that it had been found a few times since my last search, so made a quick go of it today at lunch. Something smells foul back here!! Thanks for placing this puzzle - it fills in another day on my found calendar.

04/17/2018 By chihuahuajill
Fun puzzle!! Spotted the hiding spot quickly; I’m glad brennan7 dug it out. TFTC.

01/03/2018 By brennan7
Man. This was one of the first puzzles I ever tried to solve when I started geocaching in 2009. FINALLY two days ago I looked at it again and pounded through it. There's one question I don't believe is correct, but I thought the rest made sense. I only had to round for one question but that made sense to me. At GZ I looked and looked but couldn't see it. Then I went back to the first place I looked and looked a little harder, digging through some leaves and found it. Container is doing alright for now (except it's frozen into the ground, but I was able to open it), the log is a little tattered but that's probably expected for a 10y/o cache. I rehid the cache but made it a little more obvious where it was (which still isn't exceptionally easy to find) because of the leaves. Thanks for the fun!

06/30/2016 By Hockabee
Well this trip was a little dream come true. Hadn't been to Colorado in a long time and it was good to be here. LouInLiberty, Gnomecats, 5 Bead, FWIA, HarvestMoon2, Baad Daata and myself wandered the dirt roads and city streets, virtuals, earthcaches, hikes, old caches, letterboxes, whereIgos and what not. Fun at every turn. Thanks to all the Cache Owners who made this possible with. Thanks too for your good maintenance. Friends on every side from all over. What more could we ask for? Hockabee

06/30/2016 By louinliberty
In town for GeoWoodstock and we just had to pick up a few challenges, favorites and puzzles along the way. Thanks so much for adding to our fun time. We had one smart cookie and a lot of crumbs in our group and the smart cookie came through!