Level 5 · Mysteries & Monsters
Mission 439
The Grid Dig: Find the Lost City’s Heart
Badge: Grid Master
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Grid a 10 × 10 site into 25 squares, dig each and map where finds cluster.
Archaeologists never dig at random. Grid the site, dig square by square, and let the finds reveal the heart.
- New skill Setting out a grid with fences
- Level 5 · Mysteries & Monsters
- Difficulty Intermediate
- Mode Survival
- Time 60 min
- Ages 13+
What you’ll build
Set out a dig site over a trail ruin and split it into a grid of small labelled squares. Dig one square at a time, brushing every suspicious block and logging every find, even zeros. Then shade your grid like a heat map to reveal where finds cluster and what might have stood there.
Finish line: Every square of your dig grid is logged, and your heat map points to the lost city's heart.
Bonus challenge: Dig one more layer down in your 3 busiest squares only. Do the finds keep coming, or did you hit the bottom of the city?
You’ll need
- Fences or posts
- Signs
- Two brushes
- A shovel
- A trail ruin to dig
You choose
- My site's code name
- Grid lines: fences or coloured wool?
- My bet for the busiest square
Stuck?
- Mining suspicious gravel destroys its item. Always brush it, and dig around it rather than under it.
- Lost track of where you are? Put a sign in every square before you start digging.
- No finds in a square? Write 0. Empty squares help show where the city's heart really is.
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Get this mission
This mission is in Mission Pack 43. Each printable has the full steps, a Plan & Log page and a parent page.
Print one mission at a time. You never need to print everything.
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