blygoat: Since "pocket" caches are not allowed by Geocaching.com, I'm archiving this cache at their request. For those of you who were trying to solve the puzzle, I used the "PLAYFAIR" cypher to encode the message. You can google playfair cypher and come up with a page that will automatically decrypt it for you. The keyword was "keyword" (found in the hint) and the letter was "Q" (found in the first paragraph). You'll notice that playfair was one word instead of two words and the keyword and letter were both capitalized. These were the hints to solving this puzzle. Happy caching!