"The Cotswold Olimpick Games" have been held in Chipping Campden from 1612 onwards (Link) and have featured pastimes far more interesting than the modern spectacle of svelte people in lycra moving really fast.
Proper English sports are the ones you can do in sensible clothes with minimal training and with the beverage of your choice close at hand. These sports are where an absence of athleticism may not be a handicap and total beginners stand a reasonable chance of success. Puzzle cache solving should therefore, in our opinion, be an olimpick event.
This second cache takes its inspiration from the sport of apple bobbing. This game is played by filling a cauldron with water and adding the apples. Because apples are less dense than water, they will float at the surface. Players then try to catch one with their teeth in the shortest time possible. Use of hands is not allowed.
Equipment Required:
Water
Cauldron or equivalent
Different sized apples, graded from small (easy) to large (difficult) with stems removed
Towels (head sized)
Stopwatch
Olimpick Training Regime:
1. Place the cauldron on a surface at waist height.
2. Fill the cauldron with water and the small apples in it.
3. Stand with feet slightly apart in front of the cauldron and place hands behind your back
4. Aim to grab an apple in your mouth as fast as possible.
· You can check for improvement by timing your attempts.
· Start with lots of the easier small apples and progress up to fewer of the more difficult larger apples.
· This can either be an individual sport or a group sport – you will need to size the cauldron according to the amount of people attempting it at any one time.
To be able to find this cache you will need to solve 2 puzzles.
Puzzle 1:
Use N 52° & W 001°
Puzzle 2: What do Colossus & RAF Leicester East have in common?
Please note: If you have solved the puzzle correctly, the cache can be easily opened. Do not force it or break it open as that spoils it for everyone else. Please make sure it's very well rehidden using local camo - there are many angles it can be seen from.
To claim this as a find, the log MUST be accessed and signed - finding just the outer casing does not count (I will be checking and will delete any log accordingly....!)
Don’t forget, apple bobbing started when large numbers of Romans invaded Britain, bringing with them the apple tree, a representation of the goddess of fruit trees, Pomona.
You can check your answers for this puzzle
