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Code Cracker Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/21/2013
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


To find this cache you first have to crack the code. The co-ords listed are for the parking area Next to a trail that leads to Wallenpaupack creek. Great for fishing. The cache is walking distance from this spot. Now to the code. This is an example of a Homophonic Subsitution cipher.  A cipher that uses a text as a key to unlock the code. The numbers represent both a word in the key text and a letter in that word, and is based on the Beale Ciphers. This is a fascinating story of buried treasure that was described in the 1819-21 period by use of a ciphered text that was keyed to the Declaration of Independence. This type of code was considered uncrackable since the key text needed to be known in order to solve it, and that text could be anything. It was used successfully by both sides by the intelligence services during World War II. Quick example: if the code is 3-4, 1-1, 4-2, and the key text is the sentence: How now brown cow. Then the coded word is: Who. In the first group of numbers (3-4) the 3 is the third word in the sentence, brown, and the 4 is the fourth letter in the word, hence "W".  The code below spells out the co-ords for the cache. First you need the text key. I will tell you it is a very patriotic Key. One more hint: I'm done before the game even starts.
Good luck. Oh, BTW, the cache contains a trackable, FTF coin and other goodies. 

Code begins: 30-1, 13-3, 4-3, 13-2, 4-2, 3-3, 5-2, 10-5, 14-1, 12-2, 10-5, 14-1, 12-2, 
51-5, 18-3, 50-3, 9-1, 30-1, 13-3, 4-3, 13-2, 14-2, 18-3, 20-1, 11-2, 17-1, 8-5, 5-2, 
69-3, 20-3, 8-4, 51-5, 18-3, 50-3, 9-1, 4-2, 3-3, 5-2, 14-2, 18-3, 20-1, 11-2, 17-1, 14-2,
18-3, 20-1, 11-2, 17-1, 10-5, 14-1, 12-2, 16-2, 10-4 ,9-3, 14-2, 5-3.

To those who crack the code and find the cache, please do not spoil it for others by leaving hints in your log entries. They will be deleted.


Congrats to Snoob&Sheeb on the FTF. Guess this was not as hard as I thought

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gerr ebbgf naq ebpxf znxr n terng pbhcyr.

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)