GC8K9H2 Unknown Cache Leap Day Logic Cache
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 3.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: TigerFinder @ | Hide Date: 02/29/2020 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 53.200 W104° 48.999 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Takes less than an hour  Scenic view  Available at all times  Available during winter  Poison plants  Dangerous Animals  Cliff / falling rocks  Parking available  Thorns  Medium hike (1km-10km) 

The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. Don't go there. There's nothing for you there.

On February 29, 2020, four cachers met for a late dinner to exchange stories on the day, see who found what new cache, in what area, placed by whom, and what sort of container they found.

TigerFinder, the last to arrive, fell in to his seat. "What a LEAP DAY! How did everyone do?" 

Esquared perked up: "Great! I was happy with my find. I know Gampa&Gamma’s find was smaller than the one I found." TigerFinder replied: "Awesome! Your find was bigger than the one I found!" BJGA looked perplexed: "Yeah, but didn’t you find an ammo can?" "Nope." replied TigerFinder. “But I’m happy that Esquared found the one I hid.”

Gampa&Gamma asked: "Did you go to Palmer Park today?" TigerFinder replied, "I wanted to but ran out of time.” “Yeah, we didn’t go to Garden of the Gods or Pulpit Rock Park because we found those last year.” “I wanted to see Esquared’s clever hide but I wasn’t feeling up to the challenge today.” “Oh, it’s a good one!” said Gampa&Gamma, excitedly.

BJGA said “TigerFinder, weren’t you trying to go to two locations today?” “Yes, Garden of the Gods and Pulpit Rock Park.” “Did you get both of those?” “No, only one.”

Esquared randomly added, “Palmer Park gives me the creeps at night. I was only able to go after work and I certainly was not going there!” TigerFinder said, “Yeah, that happens. Gampa&Gamma did you go for my hide?”

“Let's see, was yours, wait... we don’t remember. We didn’t go for Esquared’s hide, that’s for sure.”

BJGA said, ‘Well we got lucky and found the one in Garden of the Gods.” “I’m happy with my find, even though it wasn't the smallest out of everyones!!” cheered TigerFinder.

“What a great day of caching!” said BJGA. All agreed. They paid their bill and headed for home.

The containers: bucket, ammo can, tupperware, bison tube
The locations: Palmer Park, Garden of the Gods, Acacia Park, Pulpit Rock Park

The cachers (hiding and finding): Gampa&Gamma, TigerFinder, Esquared, BJGA

Assume everyone was hiding and searching on their own and only for one cache as well as following the basic/common rules to geocaching and nature/physics. 

The cache is located at 38 AB.CDE W104 FG.HIJ. The hide is one of the containers listed.

A:  Half the number (round up, if necessary) of letters in the cacher's name who found the ammo can
B: The number of hides larger than BJGA's find
C: One plus the number of letters in the first word of the location of Esquared's find
D: Half the number (round up, if necessary) of the letters in the name of the location of the find by BJGA
E: The number of ‘a’ (letter a) in the name of the location of Gampa&Gamma’s find, minus 1
F: The number of letters in the cacher's name who found the hide placed by Esquared
G: 8 minus the number of cachers who found the bucket today

H: One plus the consonants in the name of the one who cached in Pulpit Rock
I: The number of cachers who found two or more caches today
J: Number of hides larger than the container found by TigerFinder

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -Albert Einstein

(Special thanks to Cachers Logic Lunch (GC49DXW) where I got the idea for this cache).

 

Congrats to Ernie66 for being the First to Find!!

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5 Logs: Found it 4  Publish Listing 1  

Found it 03/08/2020 By gampa&gamma
Another FTF (fourth to find). We always enjoy this CO’s puzzles and hides, and this cache did not disappoint. We always do the logic puzzles first when we buy a crossword puzzle book, so we enjoyed solving the puzzle. We needed a non traditional cache today for a challenge cache we’re working on, so we hiked to the cache today on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Gamma spotted it and signed the log. Thanks for a fun puzzle cache - we’re giving it a favorite point.

Found it 03/07/2020 By Rob14erGuy
Fun logic puzzle!
Got up early this morning to enjoy the beautiful weather and made the find.
Signed log right below Ernie66 and Kerewin0430.
Thanks for placing this hide

Found it 03/01/2020 By Kerewin0430
Beautiful day to go for a short hike! Thanks for placing this puzzle. I thought maybe it was already missing, but then I remembered I was dealing with the decoy king...and quickly spotted the real cache! This scenario clearly exists only in a made-up world, as Gampa&Gamma never just say "we don't remember" and leave the statement there...it's always followed by "let me check my notes!" :-)

Found it 02/29/2020 By ernie66
FTF! That doesn’t happen very often. I followed the cachers on their rounds through the parks of the city. “Esquared, the cache I found was smaller than the one you found.” “TigerFinder, it was great to find your cache!” TFTC!

Publish Listing 02/29/2020 By IgnotusPeverell
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