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Mayflower Puzzle Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/25/2011
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The coordinates of this cache can be gotten from solving the puzzle below. The location is a little out of town, so a significant hike may be needed if you are not going by bicycle, bike or car. If you arrive to the parking waypoint, the cache should be some ~500m away.

The encrypted coordinates are the following:
North latitude: SACSAKWK
East longitude: LCCLKWSL
The encryption of the letters is demonstrated on numbers on the three figures below.


When you think you got that right, do the following:

1.) Take an ordinary alphabet as shown below (Figure 4.) and permute it as the numbers are in the example above. TAKE NOTE: I have left the letter “J” out of the alphabet. That is not a coincidence, I did it on purpose

 
2.) When you've got the encryption scheme, replace the letters of the alphabet (fig. 4) with the corresponding ones from the new block. For example: “A” should be “C” and so on. When that is done, you will get a new row of letters. This was the first step of the encoding : )
3.) Now, this row of letters should be transformed to numbers by the order of the letters in the alphabet. For example A-1 B-2 C-3 D-4 and so on...
4.) Write down an ascending row of numbers form 0 to 9. Below that, you should write a row of descending numbers from 9 to 0. Decode the numbers you got in the previuos step with this scheme. The numbers in the same column can replace each other. (fig. 5)



5.) When you've got that, you should get the coordinates in the following form

DDD MM,MMMM'


That's all, have fun (and luck) finding the cache! :)



Additional Hints (Decrypt)

bss gur znva cngujnl va gur qverpgvba bs gur evire. orybj gur ebbg bs n terngre gerr, snveyl ybj. pebhpuvat fubhyq uryc

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)