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ScrabbleMania "Grand Prize" Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/18/2004
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

THIS CACHE IS A PUZZLE CACHE SO THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE COORDINATES POSTED AT THE TOP OF THIS CACHE PAGE!

This cache is the "Grand Prize" of the ScrabbleMania Series.

In order to find this final cache, you will first need to find the three "legs" of the ScrabbleMania Series known as:

ScrabbleMania - LBA
ScrabbleMania - Sunrise
ScrabbleMania - WCCP
 

There used to be five "legs" of this Series but ScrabbleMania - Homann and ScrabbleMania - Jim Brown Park (II) have been archived.  The information from these two archived caches that you will need for this final are as follows:
 
from Mystery Sentence words = A, Adventure, All, And
Homann Password Letter = R
   
from Mystery Sentence words = A, Are, Device, For
Jim Brown Password Letter = H


 

To "sweeten the pot", in the contents of this final cache (an Ammo Box)  is a $15 Gift Card for movie rentals to Blockbuster Video for the FTF and a $10 Gift Card to Blockbuster Video for the STF!

 
 
Taped to either the inside bottom (or the inside of the lid) of each of the five "legs" (micro caches) are three (or four) words of the "Mystery Sentence".  Once you have found all five of the cache "legs", you will have all seventeen (17) words of this "Mystery Sentence".  It is your job to arrange these 17 words to form the correct "Mystery Sentence".


 
 

Also taped to either the inside bottom (or the inside of the lid) of each of the five "legs" (micro caches) is one letter of the "Translation Table" Password.  Once you have found all five of the cache "legs", you will have all five (5) letters of this "Translation Table" Password. It is your job to arrange these 5 letters to form the correct "Translation Table" Password.
   

THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE FOR FINDING THIS CACHE IS AS FOLLOWS:

STEP1: Find each of the five cache "legs" and make sure that you record the 3-4 words of the "Mystery Sentence" and the one letter of the "Translation Table" Password.
STEP2: Arrange the seventeen (17) words that you "picked up" at the five cache "legs" to form the "Mystery Sentence".  Now, you may be able to arrange these 17 words to form a grammatically perfect sentence in some other way that is not the requisite "Mystery Sentence".  However; suffice to say that when you arrange these words in a particular fashion, you will recognize immediately that this is the correct sentence!
STEP3: Arrange the five (5) letters that you "picked up" at the five cache "legs" to form the "Translation Table" Password.  This is very easy. (I believe that there are only two possible scenerios)
STEP4: Discard the last two words of the 17 word "Mystery Sentence" so that your new "Mystery Sentence" is now only fifteen (15) words long. (Of course, now the "Mystery Sentence" is no longer grammatically correct)
STEP5: Go to http://SprehnGems.brinkster.net/Geocaching/Scrabble.htm  and enter the "Translation Table" Password.  
STEP6: You are now looking at the "Translation Table".  Simply substitute the coordinate's digit shown in the right-hand column with the "Mystery Sentence" word shown in the left-hand column to form the fifteen digits of the final coordinates for the ScrabbleMania "Grand Prize" cache.
STEP7: Go find it!!!

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur TCF erprcgvba znl or cbbe - fb - sebz gur genvyurnq ng gur fgerrg, jnyx pvepn 700 sg naq gura tb bss gur znva genvy gb gur evtug sbe 60 sg. Pnpur vf uvqqra va fghzc naq ivfvoyr.

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)