It's not a real farm 5 Mystery Cache
Hidden : 5/29/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The farmer stormed into the kitchen, he was all hot and bothered.
His wife asked him what was wrong. “It’s those……..” he intended to swear, but he knew his wife would reprimand him.
He calmly started again. ”It’s those silly bulls down in the bottom field”, he said.
“What’s wrong with them” she asked.
“I’ve opened the gate into the next field but they won’t go through it. The grass is better in there, why won’t they go?”
“They’ll go when they’re ready” she assured him.
The agitated farmer sat and had a cup of strong tea, glancing out of the window down towards the bottom field occasionally.
He soon saw that the bulls were moving slowly towards the gate and thought he’d keep a note of how many went through and whether they came back.

This is a copy of the farmer's observations.

7 bulls trot into the field 2 came out
8 went through the gate 6 came out
5 went into the field 5 walked back out again
1 bull went in 1 bull came out
11 bulls go into the field 3 came out
8 bulls go through the gate 7 came straight back out
10 of the bulls decide to go into the field All except 2 come out again
12 go in 12 come out
6 bulls go through the gate 6 bulls amble back through
7 go through the gate 4 come back
11 bulls enter the gate into the field 2 come back
9 more bulls move slowly through the gate 4 return
13 bulls amble into the new field All leave
10 bulls canter through the gate 1 leaves


His wife glanced at his notes.
“I’ll tell you what I’m wondering” she said.
“What’s that?”
“Why do we have so many bulls? Don’t most farms only have one?”
“Well that is true” he said. “But this isn’t a real farm; it’s only in the imagination of the cache setter and if they imagine bulls, then there are bulls”
“Not a real farm?” She said, “So the bulls aren’t really there at all?”
“No they’re not.”
“So you’ve just spent the last half an hour counting bulls that aren’t really there?”
“Yes, but only because the cache setter needs me to”.
“Is the cache being hidden on our land?”
“We don’t have any land!”
“You mean to tell me that there aren’t any bulls, there aren’t any fields, there isn’t a farm so actually we don’t exist?” the farmers wife suggested.
The farmer finished “That just about sums it up.”


The cache is not at the published coordinates

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ernq gur pnpur cntr pnershyyl. Irel pnershyyl. Pnpur. Raq bs snyyra 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)


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