LT1 - Codename Murgatroyd Mystery Cache
LT1 - Codename Murgatroyd
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Less Than Infinity (Infinity Lite) series - caches are not at given coordinates. Caches are red, blue or purple bison tubes hanging around eye-level (+/- a foot) in trees along/near Forest Road 462.
This is an attempt to help those who do not know where to start with many of the nearby Infinity series. It also is an attempt to define my genre: poor-man's, mathematically-oriented geo-art for those who like to solve puzzles and hike, bike, ride horses or noisy vehicles in the Cibola National Forest wilderness areas in the East Mountains.
The caches are colorful and easy to spot once you locate the right tree to circle. The puzzles are straightforward once you have the right tools (which are mentioned in the descriptions).
The Vigenere cipher was named after Blaise de Vigenere in the 19th century (although the basic method was described by Giovan Battista Bellaso in 1553). The cipher encrypts alphabetic text using a Caesar cipher with a keyword polyalphabetic substitution. So while the Caesar cipher is a simple alphabetic shift (such as rotate the alphabet by three letters), the Vigenere keyword is used to change the shift for every letter of text. If the keyword is "SPY", the first letter of the text would be rotated by S (i.e., A = S, B = T, C = U, ...); the second letter would be rotated by P (i.e., A = P, B = Q, C = R, ...); the third letter by Y (A = Y, B = Z, C = A, ...); the fourth letter would go back to being rotated by S, etc. So plaintext "FEED CAT" would be translated into "XTCV RYL".
So you can either do this long hand or use an on-line cipher solver (I use rumkin.com/tools/cipher; remember, you want to Decrypt and I recommend cut and paste to minimize typos):
North: fbzxtr wwth pyxxexj tmxd jfonm wwth lyiu sbo agqgnvy
West: ahv nugufcg eco jeziscv zcezexe dmlzn jox gzbc vur donnksq
*** Congrats to cyclegreen for FTF!!! ***
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
xrljbeq: frr pnpur anzr