Film Buff - Waterfront Series Mystery Cache
JUNGLE J: This is a public site but indeed has becoma a very open "PUBLIC" site. Manay people sit in their cars by the river and as a result the cache is endangered constantly. I am going to arc hiove it rather that fight the crowds! Jungle J
Film Buff - Waterfront Series
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A very short walk, and a microcache containing a tiny log only. The trick is to find it and sign it while under the gaze of so many passerbys. Of course, you also have to solve the puzzle that is the actual cache coordinates. The given coordinate takes you within a few hundred meters of the cache and large parking area, but it is NOT the final coordinate.
The final cache coordinates are described below in terms of Oscar-winning famous films. Your challenge is to un-code these given film coordinates and turn them back into numbers, then find and carefully sign the cache. Take note: Different Internet sources appear to provide different dates. So, to be certain to get the same data used in the cache creation, I recommend the Wikipedia site "Academy Award for Best Picture - Simple English Wikipedia" and its comprehensive film-date list. The dates here are those of the year each Oscar-winning film was first shown to the public, which is the year it was nominated..
Here are two examples of the de-coding process:
Example - (The Departed) = (won Oscar in 2006) = (2+0+0+6) = 8
Example: 200 + (Dances With Wolves + Rebecca + Schindler's List)
=200 + (1990 + 1941 + 1993)
=200 +(1+9+9+0 + 1+9+4+1 + 1+9+9+3)
=200 +(19 + 15 + 22)
= 256
Here are your coordinates:
N 43 (Amadeus + Crash + A Man For All Seasons). (The Apartment + American Beauty + Gone With the Wind + Rain Man + Tom Jones)
W078 (Forrest Gump + Million Dollar baby + Titanic).600 + (Lawrence of Arabia + Mutiny on the Bounty + On the Waterfront)
Again, use the data source recommended for best results. Oscar dates are reported differently on different movie lists.
Checksums (digits in minutes only) N = 9, W = 26
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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