BFL Boot Camp VI - Breakout Multi-Cache
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BFL Boot Camp VI - Breakout
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Another walk in the woods, courtesy of the BFL crew
Breakout is one of those classic video games that has been endlessly copied. I'm sure everyone here has played one version or another of it. From the earliest electronic arcade game to the latest smartphones, the game has managed to keep people playing for the last forty years, and shows no signs of dying any time soon.
The first commercially successful video game was Pong, a table tennis game developed in 1971 by Atari. Breakout, released in 1976, replaced one of the players in Pong with a wall of bricks.
Breakout begins with eight rows of bricks, with each two rows a different color. Using a single ball, the player must knock down as many bricks as possible by using the walls and/or the paddle below to ricochet the ball against the bricks and eliminate them. If the player's paddle misses the ball's rebound, he or she loses a turn.
The player has three turns to try to clear two screens of bricks. To add to the challenge, the paddle shrinks to one-half its size after the ball has broken through the red row and hit the upper wall. In addition, ball speed increases at specific intervals: after four hits, after twelve hits, and after making contact with the orange and red rows.
While I would love to be able to make an electronic version of Breakout for a geocache, electronics won't survive being left in the woods all winter. Instead, you'll have to make do with a highly modified paper version. The level one gameboard is located in a container at the posted coordinates. You'll also find instructions on how to play. As a warning though, this is a BFL cache. You do have to read, and follow, the instructions carefully. Failure to do so may result in you spending a lot of time wandering the woods. you also might want to make a note of the cache attributes, they are there for a reason.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Stage 1] Whfg nabgure oevpx va gur jnyy
[Stage 2] unatvat ba n zna znqr bowrpg
[Final] va orgjrra gjb ynetr ebpxf. tb nebhaq gb gur bgure fvqr gb trg gb vg.
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