Internet Table-Top Rally Championship 1998
Route Card 12 Solution

TC12 (Out) @ YR (GS 4126)
TC13 (In) @ YYYY (GS 3925)

0000010000000000
0000100000000000
0200110000000000
0000100000000000
1000000000000000
1000000000000000
2100000000000000
0000010000000000
0000010000000000
0000020000000000
0000030000000000
1000100000000000
0000110000000000
?000000000000000
1000000000000000
1000000000000000
0001000000000000
0000000000000100
0000100000000000
3000000000000000
0100100000000000
0100010000000000
0000020000000000
0000100000000000
?000000000000000
1000000000000000
1000000000000000
1000000000000000
0100000000000000
0000030000000000
1101060200002102

Route Checks:
1) Total gradient arrows
2) Number of bridges crossing water
3) Number of times you join a Red road
4) List in order, the black letters obscuring your route
5) Most frequently visited SH
6) Lowest SH
7) Highest SH
8) GL crossed most times
9) GS containing most Southerly point
10) Number of times you cross a railway


Expressing the route card in this way tells you what you had to do:

     WWWWYYYYOOOORRRR
     WYORWYORWYORWYOR 
4026-0000010000000000
4027-0000100000000000
3827-0200110000000000
3728-0000100000000000
3526-1000000000000000
3425-1000000000000000
3325-2100000000000000
3326-0000010000000000
3426-0000010000000000
3427-0000020000000000
3527-0000030000000000
3528-1000100000000000
3429-0000110000000000
3428-?000000000000000
3327-1000000000000000
3227-1000000000000000
3228-0001000000000000
3128-0000000000000100
3127-0000100000000000
3025-3000000000000000
3126-0100100000000000
3225-0100010000000000
3324-0000020000000000
3223-0000100000000000
3323-?000000000000000
3423-1000000000000000
3524-1000000000000000
3725-1000000000000000
3826-0100000000000000
3825-0000030000000000
3926-1101060200002102

Each row was a grid square containing junctions. Each column represented the number of junctions to visit for a particular colour change. For example, in GS 3325 there were 2 junctions where you went from white to white, and 1 junction where you went from white to yellow. The ?s were junctions that were indistinct, so an accurate value could not be given. Two tricky answers required. RC4, avoiding the 'I' of 'Inn' then via SH44 was the shortest way to visit six YY junctions. RC9, 3223 was definitely more South than 3423.

Route Checks Answers
1) 1  2) 4  3) 4  4) SKnn  5) 6  6) 5  7) 77  8) 27 or 28   9) 3223  10) 8