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by sja 3439 days ago
As requested: answer to puzzle 4 (I think):

14.2981, 101.2189

Start from top-left, move the number of spaces given by the number of your current square:

down right left down right right up down down right down

It's a maze; worked backwards from the numbers that have commas and points next to them.

Number: 19; Title: Thailand https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-...

2 comments

Sheesh I'm dense, I think I need an animated GIF of how you're moving through the maze. I can see 1-4.-2 but then do you keep moving right a second time, two spaces, to that 9? And then you move... nine spaces to... where?
Nine spaces down, I believe

1-down

4-right

2-left

9-down

8-right

etc

How did you work out the movement sequences?
If you start at the bottom-right you can count either up or left. Going 8 places up lands on an 8 (this is the only square where delta from bottom right = number in the square) which means that square was the previous one.

Rinse and repeat.

Deduction at it's finest - thanks!
You work from the key stops (decimal and comma), then go backwards to the only steps that can get you to these stops.
I'll draw it out when we finish up the game :) - what the guys above me said (process of elimination)