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Cache 72 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/8/2013
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The posted coordinates are bogus.
The microcache is not located there, but it is within a five minute drive.

You are searching for a camouflaged bright orange waterproof match container. It contains only a small log, so bring your own pen or pencil. Please open and close the cache container carefully.


This is the 72nd cache I have placed. Prior to placing a cache I always check to determine whether any existing caches have the name I'd like to use. In this instance I simply could not devise a better name, and as luck would have it, there is not another identically-named cache, so I present to you ... Cache 72.

I enjoy puzzle caches. Some offer a modest challenge and some are quite complicated, such as the handful of tough local ones that I have been working on for a while to no avail. I have learned that patience, the ability to think like the cache owner, perhaps a bit of mathematical skill, and reading comprehension are critical.

For those puzzles I've been stumped by, I believe I have the patience to eventually solve them and I am slowly picking up clues as to how those cache owners developed their puzzles. I am rusty with some higher-lever mathematics, but have observed that familiarity with a simple multiplication table such as the one shown here often gets me started in the correct direction. Luckily, I practiced my "times tables" every evening during fourth and fifth grades against a stopwatch, so I know these calculations cold. And some subtle cache hints can be teased out of clever descriptions if one pays attention to the words used.


Which brings me to the following: rpuetmwkutlnwtwnwfdvzyvfifajmlvwfirkvekvdunigujeijrujiutzncxvvbvexbyxuyj

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

svsglsvsgl

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)