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Plato's Five Gems: Octahedron Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 10/7/2007
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3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

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There is a puzzle at the first stage. Solve it to find the coordinates of the second stage. See the encrypted hint for details.


The Octahedron is one of the five Platonic Solids. A Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron that has identical regular polygons for faces and has the same number of faces arranged around each vertex. See my blog for a proof that there are only five Platonic solids.

The Octahedron has eight faces that are equilateral triangles, with four of the faces arranged around each of the six vertices, and 12 edges.

This is a two-step multi-cache. There is a PVC tube cache at the posted coordinates that contains a game board and an octahedral game piece, but no log book. Solve this puzzle to find the coordinates to the second cache.

The second cache is a sandwich-sized lock'n'lock container. It contains a log book, pencils, a calculator, a flashlight, a game with octahedral dice, and various other octahedral dice.

The cache also contains a clue to the final coordinates for Plato's Five Gems: Bunganator's Grand Slam.

Mathematics > Geometry > Platonic Solids > Octahedron

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ng gur svefg fgntr, lbh jvyy svaq n tnzrobneq naq na bpgnurqeny qvr. Ebyy gur qvr nybat gur tnzrobneq sebz snpr 1 gb snpr 8 gb genpr cnguf fgnegvat ng A naq ng J gung tvir gur pbbeqvangrf. Gur frpbaq naq svany fgntr vf ab zber guna 1/4 zvyr sebz gur svefg.

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)