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Scrabble Theory #9 - Excelsior Traditional Geocache

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Paraseekers: Thank you to all of the cachers who traveled along this quiet, scenic rail trail in search of the letters needed to complete the Scrabble Board. This series was designed to pay homage to a classic board game, and to one of our favourite TV shows - The Big Bang Theory. We hope you've enjoyed this challenging series of caches!

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Hidden : 8/7/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

You can hike, bike, snowshoe, or cross-country ski to this series of caches hidden along the Grey County CP Rail Trail.


Scrabble Board Position

This series of caches consists of thirteen traditional caches and one puzzle cache. The traditional caches are not difficult hides, but each cache contains a set of letters that are to be placed on the scrabble board in the indicated position. Once all of the traditional caches have been found, you’ll then have the information needed to discover the location of the Final.

Unscramble the letters found in this cache, place your word in the indicated position, and then add up the score for your word. All words are the names of characters from a popular television series. Remember to use the proper scoring for special spaces on the board (i.e. double letter value; double word value). See Wikipedia Scrabble for official scoring rules.

Once you’ve found all of the caches in the series, calculate your total points scored. Make sure to keep track of the letters that you do not use because you will be required to deduct the values of the remaining vowels and consonants in order to find the Final cache. Remember that a regular English language scrabble set consists of 100 tiles.

Note that you should attempt these caches in order since a letter or letters from previous words already placed on the board may be used in the current word. However, you can do the caches out of order, but it may be a little trickier.

Good luck and remember, Cache In, Trash Out.

***Congratulations to emmieo and 0 psoup on being FTF!***

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fpenooyr: srrzrly Pnpur: frrqre

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)