Walk around the Courthouse Mystery Cache
Walk around the Courthouse
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You can blame this cache on hockey. My wife and I were going to the game Friday evening and went out to eat beforehand. We finished early so she went shopping in downtown Binghamton while I took a walk and ended up by the old courthouse. It was the first time I had ever noticed and read all the monuments. When I found a good hiding place for a micro container, I decided to put out a cache.
The following day, I went to another game and left the house early so I could hide the container and gather the information needed to create this puzzle cache.
Start at the posted coordinates and walk clock-wise around the courthouse, staying on the sidewalk closest to the building. Along the way, stop at all the monuments and obtain the information needed below to figure out the final coordinates. The total walk is only a few hundred yards yards and the total time needed should be less than 15 minutes from start to finish. The final cache is about 1 1/2 blocks from the courthouse. The entire route, including the final cache, is wheelchair accessible
The container is a micro located at
N42 0A.BCD
W75 5E.FGH
where
A = length of last word on the Revolutionary War monument
B = (Last digit of the year the Universalist Society was formed) + 1
C = (Length of the first word of the battle found at the top of the south face of the obelisk on the Civil War memorial) -4
D = (last digit of year the Daniel Dickenson statue was erected) + 4
E = (length of last name of the county executive on the time capsule) - 1
F= (last digit of year above the courthouse door) -2
G = (Caliber of machine gun at the Korean War memorial (G.50)) + 3
H = (number of lines of information above the ships on the Columbus memorial) - 9
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Svany: gurer'f ernyyl bayl bar jnl lbh pna tb