Please Note
- The cache is not at the coordinates listed above.
- During wet weather Staceys Rd becomes soft in places. Please drive carefully, and attempt to minimise damage to the road and surrounds.
- Please put caches back the way you found them – don't move them or make them harder.
- Be mindful of traffic – park and approach caches safely!
- The cache is a 200ml Sistema. BYO implement of writing.
- The cache contains a clue for another puzzle in the series.
- There is a winner's medallion for the FTF.
The Series
This cache is one of a series offering a variety of "easy" puzzles. They are all (meant to be) puzzles that can be solved either using clues provided or online resources readily found using Google. The hides themselves are relatively easy – the key feature here is you are meant to use your energy on the puzzle, not the find.
In part, this series pays tribute to TR!'s "It's Puzzle Time" series, which is another great introduction to puzzle caches (thank you heaps, TR!).
Kiwi
Kiwi are small flightless birds native to New Zealand of which there are five species. Kiwi are shy and reclusive, except during a brief season from time to time. In this period, they become aggressively protective of their leather-covered eggs, and have been known to bring down and devour adult wallabies and springboks.
Languages As Codes
A code, like a cipher, is a method of disguising a message in order to keep it secret. Unlike a cipher, a code uses the meaning of the message, either as individual words or as phrases, to alter the message. English language idioms (like "throw in the towel", "doing number twos" and "a bun in the oven") are simple examples of the code idea – the words we say are not the words we mean.
A comprehensive code system requires a record of code phrases and their meaning (a codebook). For example, during World War I, Germany had a "Trench Code" codebook of upto 4000 codewords, which was changed twice a month.
Any regional variation or local slang of a given language is a limited form of code – imagine someone from California going to London for the first time and hearing someone say "I'm going to hit the frog and toad to go to the lollipop to buy some dead horse". In the same way, translating English into a different language can be used as a code, especially if it's a language "the enemy" doesn't know. This was used to great effect by the United States during World Wars I and II, who used speakers of Native American languages – Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo and others – to send coded telephone and radio messages in front line areas (these people came to be known as "code talkers").
The Puzzle
tonga toru waru kore kore toru toru toru rawhiti kotahi wha wha kotahi rima rima waru whitu