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15 pairs of ??? Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

billrow: Following my rule for archiving (been in place for over 5 years; not found for over one year), time to say goodbye to this one. Need to minimize my maintenance chores.

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Hidden : 9/22/2013
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not located at the posted coordinates.

This puzzle involves two totally unrelated sets of things. What great luck for me, the puzzle-maker, that exactly 15 items from each of those sets can be paired up, based on something they have in common! The two items in each pair can be associated with a number from one set, and a different number from the other set. Summing the two numbers from each pair results in the numbers shown here (in ascending order):

29, 35, 35, 43, 47, 51, 57, 65, 66, 68, 75, 93, 108, 141, 150

The common characteristic for each pair is a string of alphabetical characters (all strings the same length). Take the character string representing each pair, and convert each letter to a number (using the method well known to cachers). For each pair, sum the digits of the numbers that you have mapped from the character string, repeating the summing as needed until each result is reduced to a single-digit number. Keeping those 15 digits in the same order as the corresponding entries in the first set of numbers, apply the following adjustments to each digit to come up with the final cache coordinates:

-1, +4, -5, +7, +8, +1, 0, -8, +1, -4, -3, -1, -3, -2, -1


Congrats to Beege49 and crosspa for FTF!

Okay, so I missed one, and there are actually 16 pairs (thanks, turuthok!) But it should easy to see which pair to ignore.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Puzzle:] Gur "fgevat yratgu" zragvbarq vf 2 [Hide:] Yvxr Nhfgenyvn (Gur Ynaq ____ _____)

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)