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Alan's Year (Moutere) Mystery Cache

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SoBad: Picked up cache as not found for a year..except by ants.

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Hidden : 5/19/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This is a puzzle so the coordinates are false.

2012 is Alan’s year. In many ways we owe him a lot.

Find out about him, answer the questions, count the number of letters in each answer and you will also find the information you need to find a cache.

A Alan’s surname.

B The British university he studied at.

C D During WW2 he worked here. 2 words.

E The name of the code he is credited with breaking.

F The name of his electromechanical machine that was used to break the code.

G The world's first programmable digital electronic computer. He is often mistakenly credited with designing it.

H The month of his birth (and also his death).

J A statue of Alan has this type of computer buried under the plinth.

K The logo of which computer is erroneously referred to as a tribute to Alan.

The cache is at South 41 1F. K (H-1) D East 173 0 (A-E) . (J-1) C (B-G)

The eight missing digits have a sum of 33.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpur. 1.

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)