GC1K1WG Reindeer Cache (Unknown Cache) in West Midlands, United Kingdom created by Facade66

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A cache by Facade66 Message this owner

Hidden : 12/22/2008

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A small screwtop container located on Brownhills Common, close to a path from a metalled road. Not wheelchair friendly I'm afraid as the paths can be very muddy.. (22/09/09) I upped the Terrain to 3 as there has been a lot of new growth and I had to blaze a trail to the GZ.

Brownhills Common is a fine example of lowland heath. You'll find it in the north of the borough, separated from Chasewater by the A5. Car parking is available off the Parade, adjacent to Holland Park or in the Coppice Lane lay-by.

Amongst its 100 acres you may discover birds like siskin, goldcrest, sparrowhawk and whitethroat. You may be very lucky and see a short-eared owl. There are wild flowers growing here that can only be found on heathland. It's also home to common lizards, butterflies, dragonflies and mammals.

The co-ordinates are for a lay-by on Coppice Lane, Brownhills, close to the cache site. The co-ordinates can be found by solving the puzzle below. The cache is a camouflaged screwtop drink container. If you are quiet, and early enough, you may see some reindeer, well deer anyway!

Santa’s reindeer are a noisy bunch. But each of the sixteen of them makes a different combination of noises so Santa can tell them apart in the dark. There are sixteen reindeer corresponding to the numbers 1 to 16. Below you can see the name of each reindeer and the noises it makes. For example, Rudolph goes “whinney, humph, snort, jangle, sniffle”.
Each noise corresponds to a different mathematical property.
These are:
prime number
square number
multiple of 3
multiple of 5
multiple of 10
factor of 24
less than 10
less than 12
As well as these, each reindeer jingles or jangles, but not both. Which reindeer goes with which number?

Chocolate
Jangle
Humph
Snort
Whinney

Starburst
Jangle
Neighhh
Humph
Snort
Whinney

Prancer
Sniffle
Whinney
Snort
Neighhh
Jingle
Humph

Rocket
Jingle
Sniffle

Tiny
Snort
Sniffle
Jingle
Whinney

Dasher
Humph
Snuffle
Snort
Jingle
Whinney

Wild Thing
Jingle
Snort
Whinney
Neighhh
Snuffle

Sparkler
Jangle
Grunt
Swish
Whinney

Silver
Jingle
Sniffle
Whinney

Nightfire
Jangle

Snowflake
Snuffle
Snort
Humph
Jangle
Whinney

Speedy
Jangle
Snuffle

Dancer
Grunt
Jingle
Sniffle
Snort
Whinney

Jet
Jingle
Neighhh
Grunt

Rudolph
Whinney
Humph
Snort
Jangle
Sniffle

Happy
Jangle
Neighhh
Humph

The cache is located at
N52 Prancer WildThing . Sparkler Starburst Sparkler W001 Dancer Starburst . WildThing Dasher Dancer

NB If Reindeer #10 appears in the co-ordinates then you enter zero as a co-ordinate.

The cache started with an FTF badge, a geocoin and some small swaps.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs snyyra gerr

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)