Magic 8 Ball Mystery Cache
Hidden : 11/4/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

*** The cache is NOT ***
*** at the posted coordinates! ***

** You must first solve the puzzle **
** to find the physical cache **
** and sign the log **
** to claim a Smiley **

The History of The Magic 8 Ball
The Magic 8 Ball® was invented in 1946 by Abe Bookman who marketed and sold the device with Albert Carter of the Alabe Crafts Company (a company named for the first letters in Carter's and Bookman's first names) of Cincinnati, Ohio.
According to Bookman, the idea for the toy that would become the Magic 8Ball ® began with Albert Carter's mother, Mary, who was a local psychic and fortune teller in Cincinnati. She had created a device called a Psycho-Slate that used a chalkboard in an enclosed box. When she asked it a question and closed the lid to the box, a few minutes later a message would be written on the chalkboard.
Inspired by this device, Albert Carter created the Syco-Seer, which, according to its label, was the "Miracle Home Fortune Teller." The Syco-Seer wasn't a ball, it was a cylinder, but it still operated under the same basic principles that would be incorporated into the Magic 8 Ball®. Instead of one die, the Syco-Seer had two suspended in the same murky liquid used in the later Magic 8 Ball ®.
Carter took his Syco-Seer to a Cincinnati store owner, Max Levinson, who liked the Syco-Seer so much he wanted to mass produce them. Levinson asked his brother-in-law, Abe Bookman, to figure out a way to efficiently make the novelty. In 1946, Albert Carter and Abe Bookman formed the Alabe Crafts Company to make and market the device. Before the patent was assigned, in 1948, Carter died, and Bookman forged ahead on his own.
Bookman looked for way to make the Syco-Seer less expensive to make. He tried a smaller version, the Syco-Slate and reduced the number of dice inside to one. This version was not very successful. In 1948, Bookman placed the cylinder inside a ball to simulate a fortune teller's crystal ball, but this version wasn't very successful either. However, it did attract the attention of another company interested in making balls - Brunswick Billiards.
In 1950, Brunswick Billiards hired Alabe Crafts to make some of its fortune telling balls look like pool balls as part of a promotional campaign. Alabe responded by encasing its fortune teller cylinders into an oversized 8 ball sphere, and the Magic 8 Ball was born. Once the successful promotion ended, Bookman continued marketing his fortune-telling balls to the public with a new name - the Magic 8 Ball ® and has ever since been a part of American pop culture.

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The Cache is NOT a Park-n-Grab!


Bring your own pen/pencil to sign the log.
 The cache is a medium sized brown camo painted PB jar that will hold small trade items (not just teeny tiny eraser sized ones) and will accomodate small trackables.

Please use stealth and common sense as needed when finding the cache.

Ask the Magic 8 Ball for the answers to all your questions while solving the Puzzle.

The Puzzle should be a fairly easy and a FUN puzzle anyone can solve.

The Puzzle is in the following format:
N39° AB.CDE W084° VW.XYZ

There is no GeoChecker needed

The Puzzle starts below the line

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Good Luck
Be Careful
and most of all
Have Fun


Congrats to Clan RunningBison for FTF Honors on 11/10/2010

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