Evil milk Mystery Cache
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Quick park and grab. Winter friendly. However, you must solve the
puzzle first, cache is not on posted coordinates.
Imagine you have fridge full of bottles of milk. All bottles look
the same, however one bottle contains evil milk. Evil milk looks
and tastes same as regular milk, with one exception. If you drink
even one drop of evil milk, you will get diarrhea next morning
before you wake up. You don't know which bottle contains evil milk
and you need to find out within one day. Good news is you have
unlimited number of friends who are willing to help you. You may
invite same number of friends as you have bottles and give each of
them one drop of milk always from different bottle and next morning
who ever gets it, will call you. (you put sticker with name on each
bottle before) However there is a better solution and you don't
need to use so many friends. So the question is: What's the minimum
number of friends you need to figure out in which bottle evil milk
is.
Cache is hidden on these coordinates: N44°49.xxx'
W68°44.yyy'
To get xxx you must solve the puzzle for 1000 bottles of milk in
your fridge.
To get yyy you must solve the puzzle for 1 000 000 000 000 000 000
000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bottles of milk in your
fridge (one and 99 zeroes) (you have a big fridge)
if you get smaller than 3 digit number, just use some zeroes (like
25 -> 025)
FYI: number of all particles (electrons, quarks) in (observable)
universe is one and 80 zeroes. So you would have to take 10 000 000
000 000 000 000 universes to have the same number of particles as
you have bottles of milk in your fridge. You have a huge fridge
indeed.
I will post every week one hint to solve the puzzle. I made up the
story so you won't be able to google it this time, however google
calculator might by helpful. Remember, you don't drink (for obvious
reasons) just your friends do.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
Congratulations to Sudonim for FTF. That was fast!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Pnpur: Ba gerr.
Chmmyr Uvag #1: Rirel sevraq znl qevax sebz zber guna bar obggyr.
Chmmyr Uvag: #2: Vs lbh fbyirq Cbg bs tbyq (TP1SU50), lbh jvyy abg unir ceboyrz jvgu guvf bar.
Chmmyr Uvag #3: Lbh arrq yrff guna 333 sevraqf gb fbyir gur frpbaq pnfr.