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tanyamp

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Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 7

Help me solve this numbers puzzle, it's part of a game i am playing!

Hello,
I am not so good at numbers puzzles.:  I play a game called 'geocaching' and there are two sites I play it on - www.geocaching.com and www.terracaching.com  You use a gps to navigate to a particular logitude and latitute, once there you find a container.  People can give you the long lat or they can give you a puzzle to solve to figure out the long lat.  This one is a puzzle and i am stuck.

It shloud be somewhere near this coordinate:  (the N 30 and the W 97 are right for sure and maybe the next two numbers also, or at least close, maybe one number off in either direction.  Thanks in advance for your insight! The answer could be words or coordinates.

Tanya (Austin, TX)

N 30° 14.100' / W 97° 47.750'
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darn teenagers. Is it too much to ask my son to leave a simple note about where he plans to be when he goes out?! Here is what he left me today:

66844444777899933347773333777733555338883366766644
46686644466333336668877766444663396644466338999777
73388833663334777333377773334443338999366683344444
489999337776668447773333

I swear I think he does this on purpose just to drive me nuts. Since I can't figure this one out, hopefully some of my fellow TerraCachers can. Just where the heck is Zach?
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tanyamp

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Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 7

Re: Help me solve this numbers puzzle, it's part of a game i am playing!

Oh Yeah and there is a picture on the page of a kid playing a guitar, so i guess musical notes is a possibility too.
tanya

Ricky

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Registered: 2005-12-04

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Re: Help me solve this numbers puzzle, it's part of a game i am playing!

Don't think this helps, but the number of times each digit repeats:

215313313442323221332123253232322123221342322313443331313126142331234

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Ricky

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Re: Help me solve this numbers puzzle, it's part of a game i am playing!

There are no 1's or 0's, making me think it's some sort of phone code.  For example, in phone code:

44 33 555 555 666

Is H-E-L-L-O, since you press 4 twice to get an H.

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"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

tanyamp

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Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 7

Re: Help me solve this numbers puzzle, it's part of a game i am playing!

mmmm. definitely some sort of phone code, man you guys are fast.

it's still istn't quite right when you run them altogether it makes:

Ntgrtyfgr3selvenpointnindournine
Wninetysevenfgr3sfiftydotehtzerothr3

since the start is:

N30.14.100
W97.47.750

I get:

N30.11.909
W97.50.033

maybe?

it's tough  there might be #s together, too llike i need to separate the 3's or 4s into 2 parts