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Logo Mania: Letters Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/28/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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EN: Logos have (sadly) become things that dictate our lives - we differentiate and buy food according to corporate logos, choose and value our clothes because of it, recognize movies, music bands, not to mention electronic gadgets.
This mystery has three words made of 20 letters, each one coming from a different famous logo. NOT ALL the letters are the starting letters of that logo. When you recognized them all, take out all spaces, hyphens, apostrophes and accents from the letters. Sort the words in alphabet order (A-Z), and look at the THIRD letter of every word. Using the english alphabet with well known principle A=1, B=2,… Z=26, you should get 20 numbers which you should mark as A, B, C… R, S, T. Putting their values instead of letters of the formula, you’ll get the final coordinates. All clear?

Useful hint: Excel formula for the value of the 3rd letter of the word is: =CODE(MID(CELL,3,1))-64 where CELL is (of course) coordinate of the cell with the logo.

HR: Logotipovi su (na žalost) postale stvari koje nam diktiraju život. Hranu razlikujemo i kupujemo prema logotipovima poznatih brandova, vrednujemo i nabavljamo odjeću prema istom principu, prepoznajemo filmove, muzičke bandove, da ne spominjem razne elektroničke napravice.
U ovoj misteriji su tri riječi sastavljene od po jednog slova različitih poznatih logo-a, ukupno 20. Upotrijebljena slova NISU u svim slučajevima početna slova loga. Kad ste prepoznali sva imena, izbacite sve razmake, apostrofe, te akcente sa slova. Složite riječi po abecedi (A-Z), te izdvojite TREĆE slovo svake riječi. Koristeći englesku abecedu i dobro znani princip A=1, B=2,... Z=26, dobit ćete 20 brojeva koje ćemo označiti sa A, B, C... R, S, T. Uvrštanjem odgovarajućih brojeva umjesto slova u formulu, dobit ćete finalne koordinate. Sve jasno?

Korisni hint: Excel formula za numeričku vrijednost trećeg slova riječi je: =CODE(MID(CELL,3,1))-64 gdje je CELL (naravno) pozicija loga.

Cache is at N 45° 48.XXX E 015° 59.YYY
Cache je na N 45° 48.XXX E 015° 59.YYY

XXX = (8*D+7*H-5*I+10*M+7*R+2*T),
YYY = (12*A+5*F+3*J+5*L+5*P+5*S)


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)