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What the Dickens! Mystery Cache

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crb11: Had a fairly thorough search and the cache is gone, sorry. Due to the problems of the location, I don't think there's any point replacing it there, and I haven't found a suitable alternative place nearby either.

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Hidden : 4/10/2012
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the given location, but within half a mile of it.

Congratulations to TelemachusGB on being first to find (and with no assistance from me).


To the day when the heads were to fall, you had had patience for a month, at most. Mr Wegg would even have picked a handsome quarrel with any one who should have challenged his deep acquaintance with those aforesaid volumes. For many years before that time, her cavaliers kept near her daughter. Other people have scores, hundreds. I have only one. "I have to give", the Ghost replied, shutting out mild men in the stony-hearted hall. I seemed to have boots on, and lost the figures and the basket in the darkness of the street.


The original co-ordinates seem to have been a bit off and local GPS reception a bit erratic: GPSs seem to like two points, one 20ft SE of the other. I think the latter is in fact more accurate, seems to be where a GPS will eventually settle, and matches google mapping, so please subtract 0.003 from the N and add 0.005 to the E. (However, the FTF found it nearly dead on the original co-ordinates.) The hint is deliberately fairly specific for this reason.

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A tip: when trying to turn the information you have into co-ordinates it is probably easier to have it written down in words, not figures. I'm willing to give further clues/guidance by e-mail if needed.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Puzzle] Gur pb-beqvangrf bs gur pnpur ner abg va gur ehoevp. [Cache] Va gur urqtr bccbfvgr gur fznyyre gerr, ba gur yrsg bs n ynetr nypbir.

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)