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Henhouse Mayhem (Wellington) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/21/2010
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

There has been a rumour of a fox sighting in the Island Bay area which is creating havoc in the local henhouses.
Your mission is to solve the puzzle which will lead you to a safe nesting spot for a frightened chicken.

There is no need to go to to the given co-ordinates.
Once upon a time in Farmer Brown’s farmyard there were a lot of happy chickens scratching about, pecking wheat, clucking and generally doing what chickens do. Farmer Brown being an orderly sort of person cooped his chickens in nine separate coops with five hens per coop. All went swimmingly until one day a fox appeared on the scene.
Now it is a well known fact that foxes and chickens have a bit of a love hate relationship, foxes love chickens but chickens hate foxes.Now in this particular scenario, Little Blue Hen, that’s her in coop C, and her chicken mates were happily going about their daily business when this particular fox appeared on the scene looking for a takeaway lunch.Reynard’s presence provoked a major disturbance in coops “C,” ”E,” ”G,” and “I” prompting some of the chickens in these coops to fly out of their nice tidily sorted coops into one of the other coops.
When the dust settled there was a different number of chickens in each of the nine coops and each square group of coops eg ABDE contained twenty one chickens. Fortunately Little Blue Hen’s coop wasn’t overly affected as only one of her companions flew the coop.
If you can sort out how many chickens ended up in each coop you will be closer to finding Gz than the fox was to getting his meal.

Final is at South 41 20 .RST East 174 4U .VWX +/-3m

R = (H-E) + (D-A)
S = B+G
T = E
U = C+1
V = (D+B+C) minus (F+G)
W =(A+B+C) minus (D+F)
X = C


Please ensure cache is returned so that it isn’t visible to passers by and watch your back as the fox maybe watching !

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va n arfgvat fcbg ybj qbja ba AJ fvqr bs n ebpx

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)