GC173T2 Unknown Cache Abacussin'
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Sandhillers @ | Hide Date: 11/01/2007 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 33.000 W104° 52.000 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 8
This is a cooperative effort between Collins4 and Sandhillers.

*** A big WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO! to JeffSueReed for being FTF! ***

This cache is NOT to be found at the above coordinates.

There are many different flavors of abacuses (abaci?), this one is Japanese. Known as Soroban, or "Counting Tray", many arithmetic operations can be performed very quickly on this device by a skilled user. Your task is much simpler, to read out a pair of numbers as displayed in the two pictures below, to determine the actual North and West coordinates of this puzzle cache.



Happy Hunting!
Sandhillers



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13 Logs: Found it 13  

Found it 03/23/2019 By Edwards654
Enjoyed the puzzle and the hide. Left a fresh log with plenty of room for Future puzzle solvers. T f t c

Found it 02/04/2019 By oz8118
I figured this one out with the help of good ol' Google. I was in the area today for an easy pickup for my daily smiley. Thanks for the fun puzzle and cache! Cheers, keep calm and cache on!

Found it 09/10/2018 By LostinDenver
This was a great chmaching day! It started in Larkspur (picking up ammo cans for caches) and ended with an FTF near home.
This puzzle locked my brain up for months before I figured out the common sense solution. Finally got over to the final to make the find. Tftc!

Found it 03/03/2018 By dustyriver
Out on another great March day with Briguy. Grabbing caches as we venture out for the 303 event = Thanks for the adventures - = Best Wishes, DustyRiver / Terry

Found it 03/03/2018 By _BriGuy_
Our first find of the day!
Grabbing caches with dustyriver before the nearby 303 event. SL.TFTC

Found it 02/25/2018 By CDRSheppo
I found it with my mommy and big brother, thanks for the puzzle!

Found it 02/25/2018 By LilRyRy
I found it with my mommy and baby brother, thanks for the puzzle!

Found it 02/25/2018 By shelleah
We visited the Denver Museum of Nature and Science with family today and picked up a few caches on our way back home. I solved this puzzle way back on 3/22/17! This was a very busy place for parking but still an easy find, thanks for the puzzle!

Found it 02/11/2018 By PoshCacher
TFTC TNLN
Found with: the5millers
SL: PoshCacher
The_posh_cacher :@poshcaher.com

Found it 02/11/2018 By the5millers
Solved this puzzle the other day. Took me a min to figure out what to do but made the solve and got a good checker. Today was the the find. Glad it was snow friendly since we just had a snow storm.
Keeping our streak streak. Thanks for placing this cache and keeping our recreation going. SL/with PoshCacher. Tftc
#1125
Found using Cachly on iPhone!

Found it 12/28/2017 By herndonrd
Had solved some time ago and finally over in the area to get it. Scenic view of 470... TFTC!

Found it 11/10/2017 By PayMeCache
I’ll admit, an abacus is way before my time and I needed heh324’s help with this one - she’s a master at them.

After picking up DimensionGarret, Landen24 and weasel311 we grabbed this as we were running some errands before heading home to make for taco Thursday. We signed the log PMC, DG,L24 and w311 to save space. Cache container and log is in great shape.

Found GC173T2 - Abacussin', on November 9, 2017 using Cachly for iOS.

Some may call me seriously mentally ill. Some may state that I am in a state of mind that prevents social interaction. Some may say I am in a state of mind that prevents normal perception and or behavior. I prefer to say that I tend to do the same thing over and over again, but I expect different results. That being said, I believe we only live one life and I am trying to make the best of it. I thank you, Sandhillers for placing a fun geocache to fuel my "insanity" or addiction as I call it. I appreciate you bringing me here so that I can sign my alias on a piece of paper that you have hidden.

I look forward to finding more of your geocaches. I also look forward to potentially finding geocaches with you one day and sharing stories of our insanity... I mean hobby or addiction? Cheers!

Found it 10/08/2017 By bunkies
Solved and found. Left monkey. TFTC