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A Geek's View (Auckland) Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 8/2/2008
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


A tricky puzzle for the geek in you. No need to get confundere here. Cache is a camo painted peanut butter jar hidden in a nice park, it contains logbook, pen and the usual trade items.

Beware of muggles. Please rehide as found and cover up well.

The above co-ordinates are for a weather station high up in the middle of a learned institution. The cache is not hidden there, but we are told the views are great.

Nelson Joy VI, son of William. A young man with exceptional visual caching skills from the sun drenched back blocks, north of the border and beyond the black stump. He has dreams of becoming a world renown cache forecaster, so that he can help the town folk back home to alleviate and break a long caching drought.

Having won a prestigious scholarship to study at the world famous Cache Forecasting School at the University of Tamaki Makaurau. This very shy geek stunned everyone by becoming top of his class by the end of the first semester.

As a result, he has been selected as Team Leader in the Annual University Caching Games. Where the supreme challenge is to determine the location of a rare form of mystery cache.

You have been chosen as a team member to assist Nelson with the task of editing and decrypting the following formula below, and thereby solving the location of the missing cache. Good luck to you and your team.


/^345{CR} 20l3j -10+ $2j4hh kkG4l ^U++ 9ll9k H4j$-2k j+j3l +$k2jk /456${^M} Bj-k 02H^D3k ej12G 2kE06+


Note: Parts of the above story may be totally fictitious... aye Gary?

Note: Please don't divulge the location of the final, failure to comply will result in your online logs being deleted.

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


FTF honours go to Rumo and Rala (04 Aug 2008)


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Uboovg'f ubzr, jvguva ~1.5z bs fbhgurea rqtr bs gur gnyy Onzohfn sberfg, ab arrq gb frnepu vafvqr vg. Zna vf lbhe sevraq

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)