The Blueberry Muffin Manipulation Mystery Cache
The Blueberry Muffin Manipulation
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Difficulty:
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Terrain:
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Size: 
(small)
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This is a puzzle cache. The coordinates above are not the actual coordinates for the cache. If you go to the coordinates given above you will not find the cache there! You will need to devise the actual coordinates by solving the following puzzle.
The Blueberry Muffin part:
At a certain convenience store, the morning clerk decides to put a small basket of blueberry muffins by the check out counter. Shortly thereafter, a customer comes in to buy a cup of coffee, notices the muffins and purchases half of the muffins in the basket plus half a muffin. A little later a customer paying for gas, decides on a snack and buys half of the muffins in the basket plus half a muffin. In the afternoon, a customer comes to buy a large soda and buys half of the muffins in the basket plus half a muffin. Now the basket is empty and at no time was a muffin cut How many muffins were in the basket originally? MUFFINS = ??
Well, that was easy. Now we have to use that number to generate a set of coordinates.
The Manipulation part:
To the MUFFINS add PI
Now divide by 10.
This result is OFFSET in minutes.
The actual cache is located OFFSET east and OFFSET south of the coordinates given above. If you have correctly computed the OFFSET, you will be at the convenience store where the Blueberry Muffins were in the basket. Plenty of parking but could be lots of muggles.
The cache is small but definitely NOT A MICRO. There is a logbook, pencil, trade items and room for geocoins and TBs. After you have logged this smiley, treat yourself to a cup of coffee and a blueberry muffin. You'll have to get the muffin from the shelf as the ones in the basket have already been sold!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ab uvag arrqrq.