Tangle Towns (level 1) Mystery Cache
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Congratulations to CrunchyFrog83 for the FTF!!!
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The final is NOT at the posted coordinates, this is a puzzle cache. Do not go there, as there is nothing of interest there. You must solve the puzzle below to get the coords.
Back when I lived in L.A., one summer the Los Angeles Times featured a game called Tangle Towns. There were 3 rounds of puzzles, each progressively more difficult. How it worked was in the first round is each day they published two puzzles, each one was a box with an outline of a state and a bunch of letters that you had to unscramble to spell a city which is in that state. There were a total of 50 of such puzzles. If you completed that level, then the next stage had the outlines of two states and a bunch of letters which you had to unscramble to spell two cities, one in each of the states. I believe there were 20 or 25 of those puzzles. If you successfully completed that level, the final level had a big box of 500 letters which were to be unscrambled to spell cities in any of the 50 states with the ultimate goal of leaving no letters, or as few as you could. That involved several long days poring through atlases (back around 1980, there was no internet). There were cache prizes for the top 3 players. I successfully completed the first two levels, and finished in the top 20 in the final round, out of the cash, but managed to leave only 10 or 15 letters unused. I remember when they published the list of winners, one person did successfully utilize all the letters.
It was a fun game and I thought I’d bring that game to geocaching. This is the first round. You will be given the 2-letter abbreviation for a state followed by several letters which, when unscrambled, will spell a city located within that state.
Once you do that, to get the coordinates, use the code below:
A=1, B=2, C=3, … I=9, J=0, K=1, …. X=4, Y=5, Z=6.
The final coords are N45 AB.CDE W123 FG.HIJ
(LA) AKBHCYCA (A=4th letter)
(OR) NELAVOYLICN (B=11th letter)
(IN) OLIVESBENLL (C=2nd letter)
(NY) NIPTARGARSGASSO (D=7th letter)
(FL) CROVEHABE (E=1st letter)
(MI) MUSATITLERASE (F=7th letter)
(CA) NETMEWPINTLANSY (G=2nd letter)
(AK) ASFNILKYORK (H=7th letter)
(IA) OILVEXLNK (I=2nd letter)
(AR) GORILLAEHEKVEEC (J=14th letter)
You can check your answer with the following geochecker link:
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The final is a small clear lock & lock with a geocaching logo in the lid.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Chmmyr: YNOFPEHRZZRA
Pnpur: glcvpny pnpur ybpngvba
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