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Sturbridge Videoventure Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

OReviewer: As there's been no response to my earlier note, I am forced to archive this listing.

If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact me email, including the GC Code, and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Thanks,
-OReviewer

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Hidden : 12/26/2006
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is an experimental video puzzle cache. Figure out a way to use the video to find stage one, which contains coordinates to the final cache container.
Difficulty will vary depending on your knowledge of the area and ingenuity.

See the streaming video:
Video Here!


Watch me take a fast-motion drive from the listed waypoint to the second stage, where you'll find coords to the final cache location. This is a unique challenge with many possible approaches to solving it. There are many ways you could try to solve this one, but keep in mind that the cache is somewhere within the Sturbridge developments (Woods, Estates, and Lakes), and that the video may not show the most direct route to it.

Also, you can't really see it in the video, but I AM holding the cache in my hand when it ends.

Note: I just noticed that I misspoke in the video and said "the three sturbridge woods developments" instead of "the three sturbridge developments" (sturbridge woods only being one of them). Just to confirm, the cache may be located in any of the three developments, and if you follow the video route you will go through all three on your way.


According to groundspeak, there needs to be an alternative to the video for this cache to be listed, so you can solve the cache without the video by solving the following riddle (you may need to look at maps of the area as well):

Who can Chase more caches than Bill Feather? Emu A! But the ant eats them!

The first sentence and third sentences contain clues as to the location of the first stage of the cache, and the middle exclamation reveals the owner of the land adjacent to the final stage. I'd strongly suggest going with the video to solve this because that's the real intention of the cache and I made the riddle extremely cryptic.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

jngpu gur ivqrb!

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)