Potch Treasure Mystery Cache

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ROTSIP: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Hidden : 4/26/2010
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is about treasure hunting with riddles and some very old techniques to hide messages. The cache is not at the coordinates published.

The cache has three riddles.
There is also a second option which is in the HINTS section. Here you will get the solutions should you wish not to solve them.

Alert: You are about to download files in order to obtain further details needed to find this geocache. As the cache owner, I represent that this file is safe to download although the files needed to complete this geocache have not been checked by Groundspeak or by the Reviewer for possible malicious content. As a result, you are downloading this file at your own risk.

Riddle 1: Picture can be downloaded at: (visit link)
Alternatively the picture is on the log gallery.

Riddle 2: GK EP MH HV ED

Everybody wants it, but cachers want the other one as well.

A very old friend signed a document on 26 March 1854. Although knighted and was friends with Faraday, Huxley, Brewster, and Tyndall, he was an inventor of note and 'helped' me designing the cache. Thanks Charlie for the five by five.

Riddle 3: Download file from URL below: (visit link)

The coordinates can be checked at: (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Sebz evqqyr 1: Hfr gur svefg frira sbe rnfg. Fhogenpg 1864975 sebz guvf gb trg lbhe frira qvtvgf sbe gur pbbeqvangrf. Sebz evqqyr 2: guvf jvyy tvir lbh n anzr/flfgrz gung trarengrf ahzoref. Hfr gur svefg frira sbe fbhgu. Jevgr gurz qbja naq nqq 2528867 gb trg lbhe frira qvtvgf sbe gur pbbeqvangrf. Sebz evqqyr 3: Hfr ng pnpur fvgr. Vg vf gur pbqr sbe n pbzovangvba ybpx. Uvagf sbe gubfr jub jnagf n dhvpx svk Evqqyr 1 vf n onepbqr naq gur fbyhgvba vf gur cvpgher va gur tnyyrel pnyyrq Pbqr Evqqyr 2 vf n pvcure gung tvirf lbh gur Svobanppv ahzoref naq qba'g sbetrg gb fgneg ng 0 Evqqyr 3 vf n Fxlgnyr naq jbexf yvxr guvf: Phg gur ybat cvrpr bhg jvgu gur yrggref ba vg. Ebyy vg nebhaq n NN onggrel fb gung vg bireyncf fyvtugyl, lbh fubhyq frr gur ahzoref jevggra qbja.

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)


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