By far the best section so far. Made me think and at my age that's difficult and painful. [..and the first to supply an answer on Saturday afternoon!?]  Pete James

Found this one a bit OTT but have fiddled around a come up with some form of route - its probably not right but I'll keep trying. One day I might be able to read your devious mind...Mind you it is good fun trying!!!! [That's not what my ex-wife said!]  Steve Waggett

Ans 3 includes vague bridge symbols @ 2535 927 & 2525 9005 [both correct]. Ans 5 (2489) I think this is the most southern [yes, just beats 2589]. Could be the one next door (2589) . Ans 7 Have used faint spot height 5 on B3174 @253 89975 [correct] would have been 4 if I used spot height 5 @246 8985. This is what table topping should be about. After working out how to solve the RC still took ages to plot. More like these one please (even if I didn't clean it) P.S thanks for the clue. [9/10 and now joint leader. Good new is that I hear Ewan will be organising the opening Pathfinder round of this years National TT Championship]  Ewan Hopes

Answer 7 - Route does not join B road at AB junction (MR 253926), it passes by, the A road taking priority [correct, 10/10 and welcome to the top of the charts]. Don Clarke

I have a problem with this Route Card just to the West of Seaton. After SH118, 'TOR' is a M/R(234914) on a White, 'C' could be either 31 or 71 and 'OSIU' could be either M/R 244905 or 243910.5 [not the latter, since decoded it made an, odd, seven figure map reference]. The different M/Rs make little difference to the answers but 31 or 71 make a lot. I have used SH71 as this gives the shortest route [correct, I think some took 31 in haste without checking the alternatives] but if 31 is correct my answers are.... Good route card - takes a bit of thought.  Ted Manktelow

I hope I've read the questions right this time!! [almost, 8/10]   John Evans

You may notice a certain amount of inaccuracy in some answers - do not be alarmed, there is a simple explanation for this.... *You* may have thought it easier than RC6, but...AAAGH!!! [...later] I guess RC7 was a bit easier than it looked - I'd assumed that the long strings made up multi-precision integers which you had to add and subtract to get a result which was the final clue - Also I think the 'clue' actually confused me as I assumed it was some kind of reverse lookup which gave you some kind of alphabetical clue! Oh well, 3 points is better than nothing for a total guess, I suppose. RC8 looks a bit easier [famous last words?]. Ian Buxton

If any are right I will be amazed! This is total guess work.  Alan Crabtree

A lot of a tease, I do have a solution but am quietly confident that my answers will, unfortunately, be fairly unique! Brief summary of my 'bit of numerical ability'! Counted all the letters in the first sentence (i.e. T=10, H=4, E=10 etc), applied the arithmetic resulting in seven numbers (126, 118, 42, 108, 86, 32 and 7). Quite excited at this point, but not for long. Tried breaking the numbers down but couldn't get them to plot in sequence. In the end added them all up and broke this down into 15 numbers (78, 42, 55, 48, 118, 31, 5, 22, 4, 72, 8, 9, 7, 13 and 7) and plotted my version of the shortest distance between spot heights corresponding to these numbers. Failed to spot any significance in the clue. 10/10 for the card [sorry, but 0/10 for a score], very entertaining.  Dave Bell

Sorry, no idea what I'm supposed to do here. Can't even work out the clue. Matthew Atkinson

Couldn't crack this. Ran out of time. [well guessed for 4 points though] Keith Norman

Easier than RC6? You must be joking - that was a simple spreadsheet problem, complicated only by a couple of errors. After much head scratching, I think I got part of the route. However filling the rest in with guesses probably won't help!  Clive George

Err, well, umm...I'll be surprised if I get even 1/10 for this one. The hardest so far, I had a basic idea of what to do, but just couldn't really got anything to work. I'll be very interested to see what the solution is.  Steve Brumpton