The South West Coast Path is perhaps the UK’s ultimate challenge for the long distance hiker - a 630-mile adventure around the coastline of the southwest peninsula. Perhaps a little too far for us when the lockdown ends? This information board shows part of the route. Take a look at it and see if you can answer the puzzles below.
Easy Peasy…
easy level questions are:
- What is the most southerly Rock visible on the map?
- How many animal names can you find?
Mind Twister…
medium level question is:
Using the whole board, multiply the number of green acorns by the number of black mugs. Then from that, take away the total number of white P’s on a black background. What is your grand total?
Brain Buster…
hard level question is:
Work out what this sequence is – and fill in the missing blanks: My Clue - you need to work clockwise!
(6,8,7) (6,4) (6,3) (5,3) (?,?) (5,6) (8,4) (?,?) (7,4) (4,4) (3,6,4) (5,6) (?,?)
If you want to see the answers please scroll beyond the picture. ↓
ANSWERS
Easy:
- The most Southerly rock visible on the map is Enoch Rock. The arrow on the map is pointing North, which is down at the bottom of the map. Therefore, the top of the map is South.
- There are 9 or 10 animals : - Lizard, Seal, Bream, Dolphin, Porpoise, Cornish Choughs, Lion, Shag, Crane and Bumble perhaps.
Medium:
There are 6 green acorns, (including the one on the ‘Key to paths’) and 4 black mugs (again, including the on in the Facilities key). 6x4=24. There are a total of 2 white P’s on a black background, so taking 2 from 24 gives the grand total of 22.
Hard: The pattern corresponds to the number of letters in each word of the placenames around the coastline on the map, starting from the left. So, using this logic, the first placename is Lizard Wireless Station. The number of letters in each word is 6,8,7 then the next placename encountered is Housel Cove, which is 6,4. This means that the items missing from the sequence, are 6,4 = (Bumble Rock), 6,5 = (Vellan Drang) and 12,4 = (Caerthillian Cove).
I found the basis of this little puzzle in https://www.treasuretrails.co.uk