Internet Table-Top Rally Championship 1998
Route Card 7 Solution

TC7 (Out) @ SH117 (1995)
TC8 (In) @ Last Plot

THE SUMMER INTERNET TABLE TOP RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP IS ALL YOU NEED TO SOLVE THIS ROUTE CARD PLUS A BIT OF NUMERICAL ABILITY.

RMMRSTRHERIUTLSHYRURV-OF-TOYTPEERRHH

D+STORCOSIUUD-LNMP-HEEALEB-MRAYM

Clue: 22125341331122223314132323331

Answer the following Route Checks:
1) Number of down gradient arrows visited
2) Number of up gradient arrows visited
3) Number of bridges visited (over or under)
4) Northernmost GS visited
5) Southernmost GS visited
6) Number of times you joined/crossed the A3052
7) Number of times you joined/crossed B class roads
8) First GL crossed on a white road
9) Last GL crossed on a white road
10) Number of times you joined a white road from a coloured road


Number the letters in the sentence from 1 to 100.

T(1)HE SUMMER I(10)NTERNET TAB(20)LE TOP RALLY(30) CHAMPIONSH(40)IP IS ALL YOU(50) NEED TO SOLV(60)E THIS ROUTE(70) CARD PLUS A B(80)IT OF NUMERI(90)CAL ABILITY(100)

You then had to decode the clues into possible blue GL numbers, spot heights and 6-digit map references, and formulate a route. For example, the letter A could have been 19, 27, 33, 45, 72, 79, 92 or 94. The "Clue" may have helped you to break up the long string of characters into their natural groupings e.g. the first 2 characters (RM), then the next 2 (MR), then the next 1 (S), then the next 2 (TR) etc. You should have derived the following sequence to visit:

R(9)M(6)   M(7)R(9)   S(78)    T(1)R(73)   H(2)E(3)R(9)I(96)U(5)   T(23)L(59)S(57)    H(2)Y(30)R(9)U(50)   R(14)   V(60)-O(56)    F(84)-T(62)=22   O(83)   Y(48)   T(1)P(75)    E(13)E(8)   R(14)R(9)   H(2)H(2)   D(74)+S(44)=118    T(23)O(49)R(14)   C(71, via 71 was shorter than via 31)   O(24)S(4)I(90)U(5)    U(5)   D(54)-L(47)=7   N(11)M(7)   P(42)-H(40)=2    E(13)E(3)   A(27)L(59)E(13)   B(20)-M(7)=13    R(26)A(79)Y(30)   M(7)

in other words (figures) with some of the route checks shown (W=join white, A=join A road, O=join B road, B=Bridge)

<<  96   W<  79 >   78  <<<  173  <>  239965  W   235957  230950  B  14  BBA  4  ABW  22   83  W  48  175  A  138  O  149  22   WA  118  WA>   234914  71  W  244905  OB  5  7  <   117  W  2  W   133  275913  WOA  13  W  267930  7

The Route Check answers were:
1) 3  2) 8  3) 5  4) 2198  5) 2489  6) 6  7) 3  8) 96   9) 93  10) 11