Adri,

Thanks for a bit of distraction -- it has been so long since I've seen a puzzle of this form that I actually had to stop and think about it [briefly] :-)

Should I try to compile another "crossword" ???

Cheers - Al.

Al, Sgt.Joe, I thought it was time for a small puzzle that would not be too easy.

Al, compiling - or trying to compile - another crossword, or something else that involves some logical thinking, is Always welcome.

Adri

PS This Thursday I will post the solution - if still necessary - for those who tried this puzzle in vain. Don't let it get you down.

 "A"-block  "B"-block     diagram
┏━━━━━━━━━┳┳━━━━━━━━━┓   ┏━━━━━━━┓
┃ A1      ┃┃ B1      ┃   ┃[A1,Ba]┃      Which "B"-block belongs/connects to which "A"-block?
┃ -33.45, ┃┃ -070.66 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃
┃ -21.13, ┃┃ -175.20 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      Try to find which A-block and which B-block belong together.
┃ -13.83, ┃┃ -171.77 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      The 5 A-boxes are already in the correct order.
┃ -04.28, ┃┃ +015.28 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      Put the 5 B-boxes in the correct (vertical) order.
┃ -01.29, ┃┃ +036.82 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      (Hint: What do the positive and negative numbers represent?)
┣━━━━━━━━━╋╋━━━━━━━━━┫   ┣━━━━━━━┫
┃ A2      ┃┃ B2      ┃   ┃[A2,Bb]┃
┃ -00.55, ┃┃ +045.02 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      Once in the correct order, when you have linked all 5 A-boxes
┃ +00.42, ┃┃ +002.13 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      and B-boxes, you'll have to find out what the diagram holds.
┃ +05.60, ┃┃ +032.56 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      (Replace the small letters a, b, c, d and e with the numbers
┃ +06.50, ┃┃ -072.31 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      from the "B"-block in the correct order.)
┃ +07.50, ┃┃ +051.53 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      (NB: Don't change the order of the lines inside a block.)
┣━━━━━━━━━╋╋━━━━━━━━━┫   ┣━━━━━━━┫
┃ A3      ┃┃ B3      ┃   ┃[A3,Bc]┃
┃ +12.79, ┃┃ +085.32 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      A possible solution for the boxes in the diagram would be:
┃ +13.51, ┃┃ +077.21 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      [A1,B5], [A2,B4], [A3,B3], [A4,B2], [A5,B1].  This is just
┃ +15.50, ┃┃ +031.24 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      an example, of course.
┃ +18.59, ┃┃ +013.19 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃
┃ +25.29, ┃┃ +036.28 ┃   ┃ Q.... ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━╋╋━━━━━━━━━┫   ┣━━━━━━━┫
┃ A4      ┃┃ B4      ┃   ┃[A4,Bd]┃
┃ +27.72, ┃┃ +139.78 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      So let's suppose you'll find that A3 and B3 belong together,
┃ +28.61, ┃┃ +014.52 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      then you must work out the combination of A3 and B3 (what do
┃ +30.05, ┃┃ +116.40 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      they constitute?) in the diagram: replace each dot in the
┃ +32.89, ┃┃ -003.70 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      diagram with a 5-letter word.
┃ +33.52, ┃┃ +012.49 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━╋╋━━━━━━━━━┫   ┣━━━━━━━┫
┃ A5      ┃┃ B5      ┃   ┃[A5,Be]┃
┃ +35.70, ┃┃ +166.92 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      I'll hand you one capital letter: the Q in section [A3,Bc]
┃ +35.90, ┃┃ +009.46 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      of the diagram.  (Still, which "B"-block connects to block A3?  
┃ +39.91, ┃┃ -000.19 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      Is c a '1', a '2', a '3', a '4' or a '5'?)
┃ +40.41, ┃┃ +002.63 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      (Note: To some degree, there are just a few hints scattered
┃ +41.90, ┃┃ +134.62 ┃   ┃ ..... ┃      throughout this puzzle, minutely hidden.)
┗━━━━━━━━━┻┻━━━━━━━━━┛   ┗━━━━━━━┛

So, you'll have to discover:
- what the numbers represent,
- put them blockwise in the correct order,
- find out the 5-letter words in the diagram.

Good luck! I'll post the solution in a week.

Adri

So far I have made zero headway with this one. I thought maybe the numbers corresponded to latitude and longitude of various places, or GPS coordinates, but soon discarded that premise. I though about embedded ratios within each number block, but I have discarded that idea.The Q hint triggered a thought about Quito, Ecuador, but than all the five letter words would need to be cities, so I thought that to be highly unlikely. I thought about temperatures, but I don't think so because of the range and decimals. I did notice all the numbers in the "A" blocks either ascend or descend in a linear fashion, but the "B" blocks , so far do not exhibit a discernible pattern to match the "A" blocks.
I am leaving it now, but will look at it again later after I have thought some more about it.

Edit: I wonder about degrees around a circle ? There is nothing over 180, but there are some pretty small decimals. Hmmmm.

Cheers

I continue to be baffled. I can not determine any relationships in the numbers that actually form a pattern or make any sense across the board. I have also failed to determine the how or the why of the existence of the "Q." I am sure once the puzzle is solved it will be readily apparent and I will search my soul for why I did not think of it.

Edit: And another puzzling thing. Why the leading zeros in the numbers ? Just to keep them all in line ?

Cheers