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Clues- what's next?

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Clues- what's next?

From: Eric Mings (elm@letterboxing.com) | Date: 2001-07-17 18:40:52 UTC-04:00
Have we exhausted to potential variety of clues? I don't think so.
Riddles, compass bearings, historical info, local lore, plain old
instructions, GPS coordinates. What could be next? It occurs to me
that a really interesting clue for a very difficult box might be made
on the bearings taken from natural phenomena that vary according to
time/season such as position of the sun on the horizon or celestial
navigation type issues. I am not very familiar with such things but
it sounds interesting to me. This from me who generally makes clues
relatively simple to increase the chance people will actually search
for my boxes :-)
--
Regards,

Eric Mings

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Re: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

From: Judi (Judi@SpaceFamily.net) | Date: 2001-07-17 23:01:34 UTC-04:00
I believe that there are a couple of Drew Clan boxes that rely on the aforementioned natural phenomena and a musical score......Variety is the spice of life!!!
 
SpaceTraveler
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Mings
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

Have we exhausted to potential variety of clues? I don't think so.
Riddles, compass bearings, historical info, local lore, plain old
instructions, GPS coordinates. What could be next? It occurs to me
that a really interesting clue for a very difficult box might be made
on the bearings taken from natural phenomena that vary according to
time/season such as position of the sun on the horizon or celestial
navigation type issues. I am not very familiar with such things but
it sounds interesting to me. This from me who generally makes clues
relatively simple to increase the chance people will actually search
for my boxes :-)
--
Regards,

Eric Mings

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Re: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

From: Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | Date: 2001-07-18 04:54:29 UTC-04:00
The Cadillac Mountain Letterbox in Maine has a number of clues related to the sun, including one that references its angle of elevation on a given date.
 
Tom
 
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Braintree, VT
P19F112
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Judi
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

I believe that there are a couple of Drew Clan boxes that rely on the aforementioned natural phenomena and a musical score......Variety is the spice of life!!!
 
SpaceTraveler
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Mings
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

Have we exhausted to potential variety of clues? I don't think so.
Riddles, compass bearings, historical info, local lore, plain old
instructions, GPS coordinates. What could be next? It occurs to me
that a really interesting clue for a very difficult box might be made
on the bearings taken from natural phenomena that vary according to
time/season such as position of the sun on the horizon or celestial
navigation type issues. I am not very familiar with such things but
it sounds interesting to me. This from me who generally makes clues
relatively simple to increase the chance people will actually search
for my boxes :-)
--
Regards,

Eric Mings

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Re: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

From: cowpost (cowpost@email.msn.com) | Date: 2001-07-18 04:35:58 UTC-05:00
How about a set of logic clues--solve the logic statements and that would tell you to go to A or B next. Or use math word problems for distances or in the same manner as the logic ones. Cowpost--getting some ideas here!
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Cooch
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

The Cadillac Mountain Letterbox in Maine has a number of clues related to the sun, including one that references its angle of elevation on a given date.
 
Tom
 
The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P19F112
 
"The game is afoot!"
----- Original Message -----
From: Judi
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

I believe that there are a couple of Drew Clan boxes that rely on the aforementioned natural phenomena and a musical score......Variety is the spice of life!!!
 
SpaceTraveler
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Mings
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

Have we exhausted to potential variety of clues? I don't think so.
Riddles, compass bearings, historical info, local lore, plain old
instructions, GPS coordinates. What could be next? It occurs to me
that a really interesting clue for a very difficult box might be made
on the bearings taken from natural phenomena that vary according to
time/season such as position of the sun on the horizon or celestial
navigation type issues. I am not very familiar with such things but
it sounds interesting to me. This from me who generally makes clues
relatively simple to increase the chance people will actually search
for my boxes :-)
--
Regards,

Eric Mings

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Re: [LbNA] Clues- what's next?

From: Susan/Erik Davis (davisarc@wcvt.com) | Date: 2001-07-18 07:48:56 UTC-04:00
One of our boxes requires you to determine three compass bearings and
find where they intersect - another way of using a compass.
Susan