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Sparkling Cache Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/3/2011
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

All the best caches should sparkle, don't yours?

FTF by CaveSpiders, 4th March 2011. Congratulations!! Also by Tjapukai, MoreMore and Garyhoney, 4th March 2011.


The word sparkling is unusual in that you can form a chain of nine words by taking just one letter from each preceding word in the chain. If you then assign each letter a value equal to the number of letters in the word you removed it from - such that if you took R from GIRL, R would equal 4 - then you would have completed the first part of this puzzle.


To complete the puzzle, find a way to use your values to turn these words into numbers. Assuming 51N & 00W


ILK x KIP x RIG + GRIPS + RASP
GNARL + PLANK + RIG + SKIP

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va ubyybj bs gerr.

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)