Panglossian Rally 2010

Route Card 1 (Spot the Dot)

Route Card 1 (Spot the Dot)
Display Map Solution     

Plotting Boundaries: (E 359895, N 443113) to (E 371317, N 435033)

Part 1 (Masters, Experts and Novices)

TC1 at 98 in 6942

78 66 44 63 84 99 105 113 26 46 149

TC2 at last instruction.

Part 2 (Masters Only)

From TC2 proceed via, out of order

2 5 5 8 9 10 10 11 13 13 16

TC3 at last instruction.

Route Card Commentary

Part 1 involved finding the spot heights listed and, using them in the order given, plotting the shortest route from first to last.

Part 2 had two challenges. First, figuring out how the spot heights were represented. Not too difficult for the Masters as I'm sure you've come across this interpretation before. The digits of each spot height were simply added together to give a single number. Then, of course, you also had to work out the correct order of use to give the shortest route. The correct sequence was 117 172 113 163 119 148 286 206 113 101 94.

A couple of you might kick yourselves for putting in the correct sequence of letters, but not in the right format - a lesson to be noted. To try to help, I posted a note on the forum as soon as I noticed this.

RC3 - There was some debate about the junction in 6939, is it YYWW or YYW? So answers of 7 or 8 were accepted as correct.
RC6 - You had to keep your focus to spot all of the YYW junctions, so I've marked them on the solution map. Some debate about the church YYW and those in 6137 led to one additional answer being accepted.
RC9 - Some were unsure about whether to count the T within 200m of TC2 in both RC1 and RC9. TC1 to TC3 is one route, punctuated by a time control TC2. A feature must only be counted once, so having counted it in RC1, it was not allowed again in RC9.

Route Card winner: Iain Tullie

Route Check Questions & Answers

Alternative answers are shown on separate lines.
Alternative sets of answers are shown with dividers.

NoQuestionAnswer NoQuestionAnswer
1T2 6YYW11
13
14
2Ch5 7lettersl,l,r,r,r,t,h,e,e
3YYW7
8
 8^3
4Y>O4 9T4
5lettersd,i,r,l,e,y,h,l,t,t,o 10Finish GS6242