Celebrate! Mystery Cache
Cache Effect: I have received no response from the cache owner, so I must regretfully archive this. If it turns up or is replaced in the future, email me and I will review it for unarchival.
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Cache Effect
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I’m not too sure how hard it will turn out to be, but I get the
feeling I’ll be giving out a bit of help from time to time.
Well, I got my hands on another ammo can, so I decided to make
another puzzle cache. This puzzle was originally intended to be
used as a puzzle exchange between the Calgary Area Cachers and the
Edmonton Cachers. Since I didn’t get any feedback on it, I decided
to keep it as my own. This is my idea of tricky, and I hope it
gives you a bit of grief, and then the wonderful feeling of
AHA!
This puzzle is written in such a way that you have to solve one
part to get to the next point, and so on. You could basically break
it up into pieces, and be able to solve it just as easily. There
are no hints as to how to solve it in the puzzle itself.
The first part of the puzzle will give you an answer, and then you
will have to do a bit of research to find the answer to the next
part. The hardest bit of the entire thing will be getting the first
bit solved. After that, you just do a projection, and you’ve got
the cache.
I hope you enjoy this puzzle, because I had lots of fun making it
(and laughing at those who have to solve it). I have no problems
with giving out hints – I can give small nudges or outright
co-ordinates (but that would be no fun, would it?)
Well, I’ve talked enough, so here’s the puzzle:
Alberta is home to a 50 year old set of twins, very involved in
the arts. Their father was the first to graduate from this
institute. The original location of the institute projected the
same number of decimetres as the original cost of the building, at
an angle of 286 plus the number of years it stood, will give you
the location of the cache.
And that’s the puzzle. I sincerely hope you enjoy racking your
brain for an answer (hopefully anyways).
The co-ordinates given are the location of the nearest gate, which
has now been sealed off. The next closest entrance is the
pedestrian overpass to the west.
Be sure to e-mail me your results so I can give you the most
accurate co-ordinates, as projections can give varying degrees of
accuracy.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Hint 1 - Hard] Abha Flabalz
[Hint 2 - Moderate] Wbr Pnpure vf ba uvf jnl gb fpubby ivn gur P-Genva va Pnytnel. Whfg guvf zbeavat, ur pnzr npebff guvf chmmyr pnyyrq 'Pryroengr!' ol gur yrtraqnel Pnanqvna Fpbhgre. Gur guvat vf, rira gubhtu ur'f cberq bire gur Tbbtyr erfhygf, ur whfg pna'g frrz gb pbzr hc jvgu gur anzrf bs gurfr bofpher gjvaf. Whfg jub pbhyq gurl or??? Ur cbaqref guvf nf ur urnef gur naabhaprzrag gung ur unf neevirq ng FNVG, naq trgf bss gur genva. Guvf chmmyr jvyy unir gb jnvg hagvy yngre, orpnhfr Wbr unf gb trg bss gb pynff.
Yvggyr qbrf ur xabj, ur nyernql cbffrffrf gur nafjre. Sbyybj va Wbr'f sbbgfgrcf, naq lbh funyy or rayvtugrarq.
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