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Queen Anne Quandary 3 Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

markta: Though it appears some people found it hard to read the cache description: "There is one waypoint on the way to the final cache. It is a micro-micro with the coordinates and hint to the location of the final cache." - the fact remains that this park location is the outdoor home to too many people who are down on their luck and in fact are living very near the final cache location. Since this situation most likely isn't going to change any time soon and we at team markta care about the safety of our fellow geocachers, we are going to archive this cache. Let us all hope that in the future this location will once again become available for geocaching.

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Hidden : 11/23/2004
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A cache in every Queen Anne Park and a Quandary in every cache!

The above coordinates are not correct!  
They are the coordinates Seattle Center's McCaw Hall.

The Symphony moved from this site and a new concert hall opened here in June 2003 for the Seattle Opera and the Pacific Northwest Ballet - a $127 million performance center named McCaw Hall! It was built with both public and private money. Private funds came up with its promised $72 million in contributions, and the city added $38 million. The state and county together contributed about $5.5 million. 

That left an $11.5 million funding gap. City officials had expected a bigger contribution from the state and county. Finance charges brought the total shortfall to $13 million.   King County has already paid $2.7 million over the years, even though they never committed to provide any money for the hall.

Should Washington State and King County contribute more?  Or should the Opera (Opera tickets currently cost between $42 - $109 each) and Ballet increase ticket prices?  

It's a Queen Anne Quandary!


To rise above this quandary and to celebrate the cultural events that take place at McCaw Hall, we've placed this mystery multi-cache in a Queen Anne Park.

  • There is one waypoint on the way to the final cache.  It is a micro-micro with the coordinates and hint to the location of the final cache.  There is also parking at this waypoint.

To find the first waypoint simply compute the coordinates by identifying these classic pieces:

Then the coordinates of the waypoint and nearby parking are

N 47 37.VWX
W 122 20.XYZ

where

V = G+H
W = D-C
X = E+F+G
Y = A*B
Z = J-I-G

You don't have to trade! Help yourself to your favorite [one per person please]. I will refill the CDs myself to keep it stocked!


Check your solution

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Puzzle] NOPQRSTUV naq W ner nyy qvssrerag inyhrf. [WP] erfrzoyrf n fgnppngb znex.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)