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Stan's Apple 13: A ROTten Cipher Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/10/2014
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Stan's Apple Number 13

Welcome to Stan's Apple, 36 mystery geocaches hidden around Stanthorpe, home to the Queensland Geocaching Mega Event 2015. A variety of geocaches await, so get solving and organise a trip to the Granite Belt.


ROT13, which is short for "rotate by 13 places", is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the letter 13 letters after it in the alphabet. ROT13 is an example of the Caesar cipher, developed in ancient Rome.

Whilst ROT13 has served its place for many years, it is a very simple cipher, and for many, it is easy to read. For this reason, we have come up with a more complex version of ROT13, which we have used to hide the final coordinates of this cache.

All you have to do is do a little research, and work out what ROT(n) n-value we have used. Should be nice and easy

%96 42496 :D =@42E65 2E D@FE9 EH6?EJ 6:89E[ E9:CEJ ?:?6 564:>2= E9C66 9F?5C65 2?5 D6G6?] t2DE @?6 9F?5C65 2?5 7:7EJ @?6[ 7:7EJ D:I 564:>2= E9C66 9F?5C65 2?5 7:7EJ EH@

Whilst in the area, why not check out the following event!

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