GC33Q0Z Unknown Cache Wolfpack Puzzle #3 - Geocaching Sudoku
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 3 out of 5 | Terrain: 1 out of 5
By: Wolfpack01 @ | Hide Date: 09/05/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 55.726 W104° 49.158 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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The cache is not at the listed coordinates, but is within 2 miles of them, and can be driven to. Solve the puzzle below to get the coordinates for the cache. I love word and number puzzles. This is part of a series of puzzle caches.

This puzzle is a Sudoku. (If you aren't familiar with Sudoku puzzles, google it and try a few simple ones first.) Unlike the typical 9x9 grids that you see in the newspaper sudokus, this is a 16x16 grid.

The objective is to fill the 16x16 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the sixteen 4x4 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 16.

In addition, the same number may not appear twice in the same row or column or in any of the sixteen 4x4 sub-grids.

Once you have solved the sudoku, you will then have to figure out which numbers from the sudoku grid make up the missing digits of the coordinates:

The coordinates are:
North AB CD.EFG
West H0J K0.LM0

(Note that the "0" in the above coordinates are actually the number zero.)

A = 162
B = 43
C = 209
D = 57
E = 127
F = 112
G = 246
H = 94
J = 178
K = 132
L = 5
M = 187

CONGRATULATIONS TO ColoradoTrekker FOR THE FTF!

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

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Found it 04/24/2019 By RfloydIV
Here from KY visiting my daughter and finding some caches. Had some time to find a few more before we leave later today. I recently solved this fun puzzle. Thanks!

Found it 04/14/2019 By chsmathwisch
Visiting from Philadelphia. Went for a nice hike in Ute Valley Park and stopped for this on the way back to the hotel. I'm so-so on regular size...so I got an expert to help with this. Cache is doing fine after almost three years lonely!

Found it 05/31/2016 By thecampcook
I do enjoy the larger sudokus. The final was a quick find today. Replaced the cache container, as the old one was badly cracked. There were two log sheets in the cache. One was nearly disintegrated, so I removed it; the other was in good shape, so I signed it and moved it to the new container. Thanks for the cache!

Found it 04/02/2016 By gampa&gamma
We needed the hint to be able to solve this puzzle. Quick find. SL. TFTC.

Found it 04/02/2016 By Tmoflight
Took a while to solve! Glad the final was simple. SL

Found it 03/24/2016 By jasperdakota
Thanks for the fun puzzle, took awhile to solve, and cache! SL.

Found it 01/09/2016 By roughinit2
That's a pretty involved Sudoku. With all the pieces put together we got good coords and chipped the cache out of the snow this morning.