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Rocket Man Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 2/22/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. To find the cache, you need to solve the following puzzle:

Two astronauts were sitting in their intergalactic module, playing word games.

"Can you," said one, "make the word ROCKET reach the word PLANET in eight (8) stages by changing one letter in each stage without rearranging the order of the letters?"

The other astronaut thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I can. And each stage is a familiar, uncapitalized English word."

Using A=1, B=2, C=3... assign a point value to each of the NINE words, sum them to get "X", and use "X" in the following equation to determine the final cache coordinates:

N46 28.(X + 278) W063 29.(874 - X)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

oruvaq n gerr gung'f frra orggre qnlf, 2 z hc

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)