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Shopping Mania ???? Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 1/9/2014
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Please note I changed some of the clues from the original in January 2015 after the centre was re-developed. I hope you find it just as challenging.

 

Clues were last updated with the latest brands in July 2019.

 

We were so inspired by 'Window Shopping in Southgate' GC3GVEM in Bath, which in turn I believe was inspired by 'Bristol at Night' that we have created one ourselves for the local outlet village.

The co-ordinates given are for the food court entrance into the outlet village.  You don't have to start the clues from here, but it's as good a point as any.

There are 18 pictures showing parts of words or symbols.  Some of these are parts of store brand names and some of them aren't.  All of them are under cover inside the shopping centre.  Just find then and answer the questions to get the figures for the formula and then find the cache.

 

N a (e-b) (h-j) (g-k) . (q-2) o (d+n-s) W00(f-e) r (i+s) . (nx2) (l-p) (c-m+7)

 

Please note that as they are all under cover there is restricted access due to the centres opening times. As shown in the attributes there is also a parking cost if you use the centre's car parks

BTW you can cheat with some of the brand names on the internet but there are a couple you can only get by visiting and strangely they are for the last few digits of the co-ordinates.

The final cache is a magnetic micro

 

  • a) BS - number of letters in this brand name?_______________________
  • b) Genuine – number of letters in the main brand name?_____________
  • c) ter – number of letters in this area?_________________________
  • d) logo – number of letters in brand name?________________________
  • e) ra - number of letters in brand name?_________________________
  • f) character – number of letters in brand name?____________________
  • g) db - number of letters in this brand name? (inc. the s)_____________
  • h) K – what does the K stand for and how many letters does it have?___
  • i) & - how many r’s are in the word after this ampersand?___________
  • j) i – number of letters in this brand name? (inc. the s)_______________
  • k) en - number of letters in brand name?_________________________
  • l) onal – how many letters in this word?___________________________
  • m) S - how many letters in this word?______________________________
  • n) logo - what's the last digit in this brand?__________________________
  • o) picture - how many letters in this brand?____________________________
  • p) TT - how many letters in this word? There are lots of these in the centre__
  • q) ama – number of letters in this brand name?_____________________
  • r) logo – number of letters in the sport?___________________________
  • s) S - how many letters in this word?______________________________

 

Well done The Fruitloops for being the FTF and within 24 hours of posting. Very impressive and glad you enjoyed it.

 

Well done to Nickanddonna for being FTF since my cache redesign due to the shopping centre's major redevelopment.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fhccbegvir gb gur raq ?

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)