Treasure Island

Question

The treasure is somewhere on this map:

Blue is water; green is grass; yellow is sand; gray is rock.

Your clue is N6E4S2W1, and your adventure starts on the central dark green square.

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 15 '16 at 11:28

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The treasure could be in any of these spaces.

N6E4S2W1 are compass directions, but we don't know which way the map is oriented.

edited Apr 15 '16 at 11:28

Kevin Cruijssen

answered Apr 15 '16 at 10:46

Richard

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The nazis strike back xD – Mario Garcia Apr 15 '16 at 10:57
Notice that all paths end on rocks. Could that be a clue to a twist with the directions? – mbjb Apr 15 '16 at 12:13
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One side of the map is darker, it can be linked to the sun position. So if we know the time and the island position we can guess orientation. – Fabich Apr 15 '16 at 13:16
only one of these is a strictly land path (not explicitly required), and why only orthogonal rotations? – Apr 15 '16 at 14:03
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@notstoreboughtdirt None of the lines represent routes, they just represent working out where the treasure is. I don't see why you would have to go any particular route to get there. Since the treasure must be in a rock space then I assume that rock spaces at least are accessible. If we consider north as a diagonal direction then you end up moving like a bishop and rule out half the squares. That doesn't break the puzzle but it's just a bit wierd so I assume it's not intended. – Richard Apr 15 '16 at 14:27
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Notice that 3 of those 4 paths have water in their way. If we assume we cant swim, then only the Up path works. – Ryan Apr 15 '16 at 16:10
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Assuming the hint uses leetspeak and using an anagram solver gives we6 n421s. – Sleafar Apr 15 '16 at 19:07
Maybe this actually means the treasure is in Berlin... – jpmc26 Apr 15 '16 at 21:47

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '16 at 09:22

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Treasures are in here:

Under ROCK square.

Because:

"N6E4S2W1" means : 6 up, 4 right, 2 down and 1 left

answered Apr 15 '16 at 09:22

Kristaps Vilerts

But surely that's only what they WANT you to think? If it was just a matter of following the explicit instructions, it wouldn't be much of a puzzle. – hmakholm left over Monica Apr 15 '16 at 12:53
Agree. As @Richard has answered - we do not know the orientation of map. – Kristaps Vilerts Apr 15 '16 at 13:13

RiddlerNewComer · Answer 3 · 2016-04-15T09:26:08.240

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The treasure is :

the grey box top right, position 12 / 4 (11 on the right from top left, then 3 under)

More explanations :

6 steps north, 4 east, 2 south, 1 west

Pro skills :

edited Apr 15 '16 at 09:26

answered Apr 15 '16 at 09:16

RiddlerNewComer

Won't you end up in (11,4) if you do that? – Wu33o Apr 15 '16 at 09:18
I'm quite bad at numbers :3 trying to explain it – RiddlerNewComer Apr 15 '16 at 09:20

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