What are the Odds? Mystery Cache
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| C.: |
"What is it, a new cache? All I
see is a blank page!?" |
| C.: |
"Yes, it's a puzzle for
a cache I placed on the island, I'm about to publish it now. If
you're concerned about the look, I can add some attributes... like
this?" |
| C.: |
"It's better, but I think it
should say something." |
| C.: |
"Well, if the text adds
no value, what's the point?... All right, I'll add something.
There, how's that?" |
| C.: |
"Hey! Are you typing our
conversation?" |
| C.: |
"Sure, why not? It's as
good as anything else." |
| C.: |
"I suppose... But isn't it
going to make people think the clues are in the text now and make
this a big red herring?" |
| C.: |
"Right... I'm gonna have
to bump up the difficulty rating a bit and add a checksum in case
someone comes up with another solution." |
| C.: |
"Oh my, I can't imagine them
spending hours on this text trying to figure out something that's
not there." |
| C.: |
"They would probably try
to decipher each sentence and make digits out of them or something,
or count the number of lines we say and see if it makes
15." |
| C.: |
"Why 15? Oh, because that's the
number of digits in coordinates?" |
| C.: |
"Yeah, they would try to
derive a digit from each line, but then the title could have a
totally different meaning." |
| C.: |
"That would be horrible. You're
right, you'd better leave the page empty." |
| C.: |
"Alrighty, I'll edit it
after I save this..." |
| C.: |
"Wait! Uncheck the active cache
checkbox first! Don't publish it! DON'T PUBL..." |
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[15 digit checksum is 29.]
[Cache:] 5 Of: Orybj Ovt Ohfu, Oruvaq Oevpx.
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