Took this photo while in my garage and thought it would be nice
to share. The coordinates to the actual cache location can be found
in this photo.
Tergiversated Rebus Interpolated By Underlying Tenebrous
Enigmas
This is a
T.R.I.B.U.T.E. to those people who have made puzzle solving around
the area interesting and enjoyable!
Many times, part of solving a puzzle is getting into the head of
the person who created the puzzle. Since you will all have to get
into my head (ignore the voices!), I thought I'd get into some of
my favorite puzzlers' heads and predict what they will say about
this puzzle*:
Chief_Osceola: "I don't really DO other people's puzzles, I make
my own."
fhetter532: "Huh... Now see?... That's just... Grrrr...."
TEAM JNLE4: "What? KBLAST has a new puzzle out? Why didn't I get
the notification? Has anyone got first to find yet?"
alfamonkey: "Yeah... forget this. I think I'm just gonna go
climb something or crawl somewhere."
lttldude9: "I wonder if I can solve this faster than he solved
my Mother Of All
Puzzles..."
Captainwilly: "I need to solve this so I can grab it while I'm
out on my East Columbus run next month!"
TeamMonroes: "Is that binary? I think I see some binary in
there..."
kelinore: "Oh forget THIS!!! Don't waste your time on this
puzzle, people, go work on High
Up In The Sky... it's not near this hard."
mitoh: "Hey! I've been in that garage before! They've cleaned it
up a lot!"
sunburykids: "This looks really familiar."
* Disclaimer: All
cachers were contacted about this listing before it was published.
Any cacher who has changed his/her mind about being included may
contact me and changes will be made expeditiously. No thesauruses
were harmed during the making of this cache page. Well, maybe one.
All decisions by KBLAST and Groundspeak are final. Void where
prohibited.
There is a First To Find
prize** of an unactivated travel bug!
** Disclaimer 2: Prizes are non-negotiable and non-transferable.
Well, I guess you can transfer it, scratch that last part. One
winner per household per thirty days. If the cache is muggled
before FTF all prize offers become null and void.
FTF is listed below in
bright rainbowy goodness. Prize is gone. Deal with it.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
Hint #1 & 1.5 - 8/21/10:
I got permission to share the
following email in today's hint:
"the coords on the sign are N 39°
52.828 W 082° 54.211. so we need to modify that number to get the
actual coords. to modify it, we must take into consideration the
colors on the Groundspeak logo (yellow, green, blue, red). each of
these colors has a corresponding number. to find the number, we
must find how many objects of that color appear in your garage. my
eyes suck, but i think there are 8 yellows, 3 greens, 10 or 11
blues, and 8 reds. 8-3-10-8. so then...... im not sure... add 83 to
the N coords and 108 to the W coords maybe?"
This person is MUCH smarter than I am. If you are doing this kind
of thinking, stop. It hurt my brain reading this, and I feel bad
for you. 
I'm going to give a sort of double hint today, mostly because this
person blew my mind. First hint: ANY geocacher can do this cache...
there is not any special knowledge that is required.
Now for the serious hint: You're looking for North and West
coordinates, right? If the picture were a map, where would North
and West be?
Hint #2 - 9/19/10 (Talk like a pirate
day!):
ARRRRR!!! This be the hint for ye
swash-buckling treasure seekers!!! There be a reason for the
wordin' in hint #1... Notice how it DON'T say, "Anyone can do this
cache..." The wordin' be: "ANY GEOCACHER can do this cache..."
There be a reason 'twould take a geocacher to solve this... There
be somethin' specifically geocachin' related to this here mystery!
Use yer geosenses and see what ye can see!!!
Hint #3
- 10/14/10:
The
coordinates at the top of the page actually take you to a hint.
Don't go into any of the nearby businesses or houses to ask
questions - none of them can help you. Just look at your
surroundings - something about the location will give you a hint as
to what you are looking for.
Update 12/30/10 - Hint
#3 is no longer valid and apparently was always a horrible hint.
Ignore hint #3.
Hint #3.5 - 11/18/10
I posted a note on 11/18/10 to point out something that
happened. I'm deleting that note from below and transferring the
part that is sort of a hint here. "people are fickle and
unpredictable sometimes..." Because of this fact, there will always
be a possibility that "...this cache is not currently
solvable."
Hint #4 - 12/1/10:
Took this photo while out caching and thought it would be nice
to share. The coordinates to the actual cache location can be found
in this photo.
Hint #4.5 - 12/4/10:
Hint #2 and #3 go REALLY well with hint #4. There is something
literally in the picture in the garage that was also placed in the
tree.
CONGRATS
TO IPHONE.CACHERS FOR THE LONG AWAITED
FTF!!!