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Pinocchio's Quagmire Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/1/2008
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
4.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

PINOCCHIO'S QUAGMIRE


The above coordinates are false, DON'T GO THERE!

To find this cache, you are going to first decipher the riddles, fact questions, and problems below to get the answers which will hopefully get you to the first cache location.  Once you have located the first cache location there will be a card in the container with some more information.  Please follow the directions carefully. 

Please read, review, and take notes off of the card.  The card will contain information you need to solve the next three steps to the cache.  DO NOT TAKE THE CARD!  The card must be left  in the cache for fellow cachers or all may be lost.

You may want to set some time aside for this cache.  Depending on your mode of travel and how good of a boy scout you were, this cache could take you several hours or a whole day to complete even after you solve all the clues on this page.

You will need to bring a pen.

N 34° AB.CDE       W 111° DD.EFA

With the coordinate above, figure out the the problems below and replace the letters with the number to get the coordinates to the cache and to the meaning of life.

 

1)  If a cat was not really a cat, but had no relation to a dog.  How many babies would be in a litter?  Now subtract that number by SIXTEEN.  That number is equal to A.

2)  Count the number of times a an Arizona Woodpecker (Picoides arizonae) pecks to finish a hole in an Aspen tree.  Take the last number of that digit.  That number is equal to B.

3)  When the wind blows at 15 knots threw the Singing Tree from the North, how may distinct notes can be heard by the human ear?  Take the first digit of that answer.  That number is equal to C.

4)  [(2×32×b3 b(-3) b3)(-2) ]×[33b4b (-5)] 2[2(b-3)+4b-2(b-3)]

            b = D

5)  If a male that was 33 years old and weighed 175 pounds took 2 doses of NyQuil at 7:00 PM.  At what time would he fall asleep if he went to bed at 11:20 PM on the 2 previous nights?  That answer is equal to E.

6)  If this was that and that was these, how many times would you have to change those to that in a normal days conversation, in America?  Take the middle digit of that answer.  That number is equal to F.

     

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Qnapr zl yvggyr chccrgf!

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)