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Surrey Arts - 3 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/5/2008
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The coordinates given are not the cache location but for a car park which may or may not be useful when visiting the cache.

This cache is inspired by those in the 'X' Marks the Spot series, and is part of a series on the theme of people of significance in the various arts (literary, musical etc) and who have Surrey connections.


This person (who will be called X) was born in Surrey, the event being recorded on a plaque at the birth location.

A couple of years ago we found a second plaque concerning X, but this one was quite a long way from Surrey. This discovery was made while WW1 was working in the Netherlands (at Maastricht) and during school holidays the other Woking Wonders (WWs) would come out to stay. We explored much of the local area and on one visit came across a town where X had once stayed for five weeks. This stay was commemorated on that second plaque.

To solve this puzzle you will need to identify who X was and answer the following questions.

  • How many letters are in the name of the town where the second plaque can be found (just to confuse things, there are several alternative names for this place - you need to use the more commonly used name). This is A.
  • After school X started work for a company which still exists. B is the number of letters in the normal abbreviated name of this company.
  • X had a nickname. C is the number of letters in this.
  • X didn't live in Surrey for long. In fact much of X's life was spent outside the UK. In which year did X take up permanent residence outside the UK, for tax reasons (DEFG)?

To find the final cache location you need to solve the following:

Final cache location is at N 51.(C-A)B.(G/2)(A+D)E W 000.FA.(F+G)(A+F)(B+C)
You are looking for a magnetic nano.

Please replace the cache box exactly as you found it and don'tleave any spoilers in the log.

Please feel free to continue the series with a cache of your own.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gnxr pner ng TM naq qba'g trg vzcnyrq

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)