The Portable Mystery Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/20/2007
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is NOT at the listed coordinates! You must solve the following puzzle to get the coords:

Upon moving to South Florida, I was amazed to see how large the schools were. I was equally amazed at the number of portables (temporary buildings used as classrooms) there were at these schools.

The following story will provide you with the information necessary for finding this cache.



There was an unnamed school in Broward Couty that consisted of 0 regular buildings and 1000 portables.

Each portable was given a three digit number, starting at 000 and going up to 999. A friend of mine, Tom, went to the school to give a presentation on Geocaching to some of the Geography classes over a period of 3 days.

When he arrived, he was given a slip of paper with the number of the portable where he would be giving his presentation and the key. He headed for the classroom and had a great first day teaching the kids. At the end of the day, he grabbed his stuff and left.

When he got home, he realized that his GPSr was still in the portable. To make matters worse, he had lost the paper with the portable number on it and he was supposed to meet his fiancee to go caching. He ran back to the school and found it deserted. He had the key, so he just needed to figure out which portable it was in.

He remembered one of his students, Lenny, pointing out some interested facts about the number of the portable he was using. According to Lenny, each digit in the portable number was unique. And, even more interestingly, if you took the largest number that could be made by rearranging these three digits (i.e. - the three digits that make up the portable number) and subtracted the smallest number that could be made by rearranging these same three digits, the answer would come out as the number of the portable.

Now all Tom had to do was to figure out the portable number. Can you help?

If you take the number of the portable and add 129, you will have the last three digits of the latitude (the first four digits are 26 06). If you take the number of the portable and add 275, you will have the last three digits of the longitude (the first five digits are 080 23).

Good luck! There is an unactivated Geotag Geocoin for whomever is FTF!

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Cnvagrq fnaqjvpu fvmr ybpx-a-ybpx haqre n fznyy snyyra gerr.

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)


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