It Begins at the Miners Gate Mystery Cache
It Begins at the Miners Gate
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Listed coordinates are for the "Miners Gate." One of 20 gated entrances to Central Park. Each gate was named by Olmsted and Vaux, the park's designers, for the type of person they anticipated entering the park from that area. The cache is not there, but is in another area of the park. To find the actual cache, you will need to solve the puzzle below.
Miners are a lot like geocachers, exploring the earth, searching for treasure and those hidden veins of beauty tucked away in the earth. In the 1862 Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, where Olmstead and Vaux named each gate for the first time, they said "Miners include workers in coal, and the different ores, and also the quarrymen or diggers of stone." Little did he know that just a few years later NYC would have their own unique form of "miner:" the Sandhog. The men that dug the subway lines and bridge footings that helped make NYC great, driving holes through the bedrock like toothpicks through a cube of cheese. Miners have a unique aspect to their profession that is true of few others: they move in a dimension that most of us don't. It's true that here and there we change altitude slightly in our everyday lives, but miners don't just think in the dimensions of X/Y they must also think in the Z axis as they move through the earth. Following is what you will need to solve this puzzle. You can assume the 40/73. It's up to you to peer through layers and find the rest!
(8,10,6)~(0,4,6).(8,10,5)~(8,1,0).(0,4,5)~(10,4,3)
(3,10,8)~(0,8,8).(10,6,5)~(0,1,5).(2,10,7)~(10,6,6)
(10,7,6)~(5,10,6).(0,6,5)~(5,10,5).(0,7,4)~(10,4,5).(10,4,4)~(5,0,5).(0,3,5)~(5,0,6)
(0,5,2)~(7,0,6).(3,10,3)~(0,5,1).(3,10,4)~(10,5,6).(7,0,7)~(10,5,7)
(0,4,8)~(5,0,8).(5,0,6)~(10,6,6).(10,6,5)~(6,10,4).(0,4,6)~(7,10,5)
(10,4,5)~(5,0,5).(4,10,7)~(0,7,7).(10,7,6)~(4,10,6).(10,3,6)~(0,7,4).(0,3,5)~(5,0,6)
(0,9,6)~(3,10,7).(1,0,2)~(10,4,6).(3,10,8)~(10,4,5)
(0,7,5)~(3,0,6).(9,0,7)~(0,7,6).(10,5,5)~(7,10,5).(9,0,6)~(10,5,6)
(0,6,5)~(10,2,6).(0,6,4)~(3,0,2).(10,7,6)~(8,0,5).(5,10,4)~(10,7,4)
(4,0,5)~(0,4,6).(5,0,6)~(5,10,6).(5,10,7)~(10,6,7).(10,6,6)~(0,4,4)
Good luck!
Congrats to addisonbr on the FTF!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Puzzle] Guvax gnpgvyryl, Erar Qrfpnegrf pna uryc
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