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EASY PUZZLE II Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/27/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Cache is not at listed coordinates

Congrats to n0wae on the FTF!


Solve this easy puzzle and find the cache. You will be looking for a 35mm film canister hidden in an easy to find spot. This cache draws inspiration from one I did a while back called EASY PUZZLE(GC1A0RK) Hat tip to Lord Mike, go and read his cache page first!

And now onto EASY PUZZLE II.
To quote Lord Mike: "It seems that this area has been over run with puzzle caches. Some are solvable without a MIT degree, but many are not. This puzzle cache is for everyone who doesn’t want to spend day upon day working on solving the most complicated, enigmatic puzzle just to go out and find a micro under a light skirt and sign the log proving to everyone that they are a smarty pants. This cache may still be a micro under a light skirt, but at least you won’t have to get an advanced degree in physics to figure it out..."

This should just take some simple arithmetic to figure out.

The cache is located at:

N 40 AB.CDE W 104 FG.(H+7)I(J-1)

Solve for A through J by answering the following questions:
A: How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole measuring 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 foot?
B: If there are 7 apples on the ground and you pick up 3 of them, how many apples are there?
C: If it takes exactly 8 minutes to hard boil a duck egg, how many minutes would it take to hard boil 4 duck eggs?
D: How many letter "F"s and "f"s in the following sentence? "Frank Fellows was one of the first cachers to find it out of ten finders Tuesday."
E: A farmer has 10 pigs, but all of them but 3 die in a horrible blizzard, how many pigs are still alive?
F: Divide 2 by half and add 1.
G: A doctor gives you 4 pills and tells you to take one every 2 hours, how many hours will the pills last?
H: A ladder is hanging over the side of a fishing boat. The bottom rung is just above the surface of the water and the rungs are 12 inches apart. The tide is rising at 12 inches an hour, how many rungs will be submerged exactly 2 hours from now?
I: You are currently running 3rd in a race and overtake the runner in 2nd place, what place are you now?
J: How many points are on a 5 pointed star?

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ntnva, gb dhbgr Ybeq Zvxr: "Gur pnpur vf haqre gur ynzc fxveg ng gur yvtug cbyr ng gur fbyirq pbbeqvangrf. Bapr lbh hfr gur TCF gb svaq gur pbeerpg yvtug cbyr, lbh gura arrq gb trg bhg bs lbhe iruvpyr, qvfperrgyl yvsg hc gur ynzc fxveg, ergevrir gur pnpur, fvta gur ybt (gur guvat znqr bs cncre vafvqr gur pnpur pbagnvare), qvfperrgyl ercynpr gur pnpur naq ynzc fxveg nf lbh sbhaq gurz, trg onpx va lbhe iruvpyr, naq qevir gb gur arkg pnpur ba lbhe yvfg."

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)