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Starting off in steady fashion, an archived cache, local to Nottingham and relevant to the theme of this day. Click on the words below to go to the now redundant cache page, I have included an explanation as to how I approached the puzzle and my thought processes upon reading the page. *Have a look at the cache page and give it a go before reading the explanation.
This is a popular method of providing solvers with the numbers - the 'riddle' starts by giving you 'North' (straight up) and then a sequence of seven clues.
The next direction hints at 'West' (rotate 90 degrees anti-clockwise) and then eight other clues. This suggests that all of these clues will give ALL of the missing numbers.
As the general rule for placing a mystery cache is that it will be within 2 miles of the given co-ordinates it will almost always be safe to assume that the first two numbers North and the first three Numbers West will be the same as those on the cache page. In this instance
The cache name and the background image provides vital info to fill in the missing numbers. Here's a link that will make it a little (and other similar sounding puzzles) easier to solve [LINK] You have your own in-built checker with the first 5 numbers above and know that the puzzle setter is expecting you to start counting from the first number on each occasion.
That's it. The co-ordinates should take you to a tree in 'The Hook' at Lady Bay, Nottingham.
The same method may be useful to solve this puzzle
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(I just did a wildcard search for unknowns with Pi or Pie in the title)
Hope that helps, keep checking back as the next 'related' puzzle explanation will concern cache names...