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Indigo Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

sharant: We had a report of an agrresive neighbour here hassling people. We can by today to move the cache elsewhere and met an aggressive neighbour ourselves - maybe the same person. Ant had already removed the cache but that didn't seem to stop this person - who didn't seem to be the landowner - from being aggressive.

To avoid causing issues in this area we are instead archiving this cache. No-one needs the bother!

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Hidden : 4/27/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is a puzzle cache - it is NOT at the stated coordinates. You need to work out the puzzle using whichever skill you excel in: web codes, web searches, RBG values or maths would do, or asking someone to help you!
Please keep your dogs on a lead there are lambs in the fields.





INDIGO


Pure Indigo has an RGB value of 111-000-255 and a Hex value of 6F00FF.

Indigo is a bit of a mystery in the rainbow, in fact many countries refuse to believe it is a colour as such, just a shade of blue - they insist on there being six colours in the rainbow. But Isaac Newton believed there were seven - he did love the number seven, that's for sure - so we will stick with tradition!

Indigo is named after the plant, and the dye that came from it. After centuries of war and conflict the British dominated the trade in the dye by the late Victorian era - it was cheaper and easier to make, and more versatile, than the old 'wode' method of making a pale blue. The chief people to suffer from the British dominance were the Dutch, so perhaps it is fitting that it was a Dutch company (BASF) that invented a man-made version, which was even cheaper and longer-lasting than the British (Indian and Jamaican) dye, and wiped out the British trade within 20 years.

The Puzzle

Solve this puzzle to work out the coordinates for the cache. You will need to work out the BLUE component within these colours using the RGB colour system:

NNN is the sum of four numbers:
  • Deep Indigo (#8A2BE2)
  • Bright Indigo (#5D76CB)
  • Blue Indigo (#485470)
  • +2

WWW is the sum of three numbers:
  • Persian Indigo (#32127A)
  • Lavender Indigo (#9457EB)
  • +1

The cache can be found at: N52 40.NNN W002 04.WWW

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs Gerr

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)