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Chinese School (KPC2010) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is not located at the posted coordinates. To find the cache coordinates, solve the puzzle below.

As the school year comes to a close, it's time for your Final Exam. Good luck!

Special Notes about the 2010 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with certitude. Because certitude may not properly account for joint solutions, please email me team member names in the case of team solutions to ensure proper point accounting. All "point" scoring is arbitrary anyway, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want your name announced earlier at the December banquet). The real challenge is just to see whether you can solve all of these caches by the end of the year. To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.

Special Notes about this month's puzzle:
The terrain rating is based on the last few yards to the cache. I originally had a more difficult implementation of this puzzle, but I think I've reworked this one, so that it actually will be solvable.

2010 Puzzle Challenge Solvers
2010 Puzzle Challenge Finders


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First Ten Correct Solutions
candcfamily 01 Jun 1:22am
payakoi 01 Jun 9:18am
Dotish & The North Star 01 Jun 2:59pm
jimbexleyspeed, fizzymagic, InTheRough, mcdurr 05 Jun 10:34am
bamsch, Uncle Tom,
cachbefound, Moe311
06 Jun 10:42pm
Chrysalides & Geo Fan 07 Jun 4:02pm
Gitonyerhorse 15 Jun 12:21pm
sleuthers 16 Jun 6:37pm
TeamOttlet 17 Jun 8:35pm
frivlas 29 Jul 1:48am
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First Ten Visits
candcfamily 01 Jun
payakoi 01 Jun
The North Star 02 Jun
jimbexleyspeed 05 Jun
Dotish 06 Jun
Uncle Tom & bamsch 07 Jun
Geo Fan,
fizzymagic & Team Yofa
07 Jun
cachbefound 09 Jun
InTheRough 12 Jun
Chrysalides & Little Bunny 12 Jun

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hints added on June 15th.] 1. Genafyngr gur Puvarfr anzrf. (Hfr fvzcyvsvrq Znaqneva.) uggc://jjj.znaqnevagbbyf.pbz/ naq uggc://jjj.puvarfranzrf.bet/ jvyy or hfrshy ersreraprf. 2. Chmmyr "fgnegf" ng gur cbfgrq pbbeqvangrf. Fpubby. Lrne.

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)