GC1AF01 A Cryptic Cipher (Canterbury) (Unknown Cache) in South Island, New Zealand created by jakeemon

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GC1AF01 ▼

A cache by jakeemon Message this owner

Hidden : 3/22/2008

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Size: Size: small (small)

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A Challenging puzzle to get your mind working. The above co-ordinates are bogus. DO NOT go there!!

The U.S. Army used a cipher device called the M-94.The device consisted of 25 alphabet discs and a shaft. The disks can be mounted on the shaft in any order; they may be rotated relative to each other or may be fixed. On the rim of each alphabet disk there is stamped a different disarranged alphabet. At its inside or cup surface each alphabet disk is marked with a number. The numbers run from 1 to 25.

The message below is encrypted using a variant of the U.S.Army’s M-94 wheel cipher. It uses five wheels and does not randomize the order of the alphabet. My cache is based on an existing cache in the USA but DOES NOT follow exactly the same structure. A good way to visualize a cipher wheel is to draw up a table where each row of the table represents a wheel on the device. To decrypt my cipher you will need to use the following cipher key "14,7,19,4,23". Each number tells you the amount of offset for the next row in relation to the FIRST line eg the second line is offset from the first by 14 letters and the third row is offset from the first by 7.

To encrypt the first letter of a word in my cipher you would locate it on the first wheel and then encrypt it using the letter on the second wheel. The second letter would be located on the second wheel and encrypted using the third etc etc. For the sixth and subsequent letters start from the top and repeat the cycle.

ohqwl uz zdjmass hf zcjat mcgak avglq

ksvyqlg iouyhn mabf evuuh oldv hwyql gtcqu

spzf vbt zqcsc aiv rtndlsh ailbif rvig wapbi

gqyc tpsoh uvgy

Cache contains the usual logbook and swaps and should be a fairly easy find once the code is broken!! Good Luck.

P.S depending on how hard this turns out to be I may do another where the "cipher key" will NOT be given. So not only will you have to break the code you will have to work out the key as well!!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1) Gb gur yrsg bs Ze Ybjr 2) Onfr bs gerr pbirerq va yrns yvggre. 3) Onfrq ba pnpur TPZ050

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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