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Tower of Fulshear Mystery Cache

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GrangerFam: It was a good run. I liked setting up the puzzle and borrowed the code from 9key (with permission). Time to let it go.

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Hidden : 6/28/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


You guessed it, the cache is not at the posted coordinates.


The Tower of Hanoi or Towers of Hanoi (also known as The Towers of Brahma) is a mathematical game or puzzle. It consists of three rods, and a number of disks of different sizes that can slide onto any rod. The puzzle starts with the disks neatly stacked in order of size on one rod, the smallest at the top, thus making a conical shape.
The objective of the puzzle is to move the entire stack to another rod, obeying the following rules:
· Only one disk may be moved at a time.
· No disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk.
· Each move consists of taking the upper disk from one of the rods and sliding it onto another rod, on top of the other disks that may already be present on that rod.

There is a legend about a Vietnamese or Indian temple which contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden disks. The priests of Brahma, acting out the command of an ancient prophecy, have been moving these disks, in accordance with the rules of the puzzle, since that time. The puzzle is therefore also known as the Tower of Brahma puzzle. According to the legend, when the last move of the puzzle is completed, the world will end. If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 turns to finish, or roughly 600 billion years, so I think we are safe for now.

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Note: Thanks to 9key for allowing me to borrow his puzzle.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gbc bs fgnvef ba evtug. Zntargvp

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)