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Tickle your gray cells Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/16/2009
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is a puzzle cache – the above coordinates are BOGUS!

Just a little something to tickle your gray cells & put a bit of humor in your life.

The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University.


See if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. (You see, according to their study, the “average” person over 40 years of age can’t do it!)
So give it a try & try to prove their scientific study wrong. (I won’t tell you how we rated on this, but we had a really good laugh!)



This is this cat.
This is is cat.
This is how cat.
This is to cat.
This is keep cat.
This is an cat.
This is old cat .
This is fogey cat.
This is busy cat.
This is for cat.
This is forty cat.
This is seconds cat.


Oh no, you’re not thru yet … go back and read the third word in each line from the top down.

Now that you’ve had some fun … how about finding the cache.


Figure out how many of each letter above there are (i.e.: in the 12 listed statements above) - how many “t”, how many “h”, etc.

Correct coordinates to the cache are:
Lat: 3 3 - 5 (h-c) . (t-i) (f+g) (b+u)
Long: 0 8 4 - 0 (y-w) . (e+p) (o-m) (k+r)

CONGRATULATIONS to Da Posse for the FTF!!!!


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpur: uvag va gur gvgyr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)