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Did she dare to Risk? Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/1/2014
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is all based around Aunt Miriam who sadly passed away several years back from what we think was a heart attack. We never got a conclusive cause of death though, and since we never pressed the point we are still in the unknown on how she died..

So when I recently was in the attic, I found some childhood relics as well as some medical records from Aunt Miriam. Those records really tell us nothing, but perhaps you can figure out if she ran a risk of sorts?



Aunt Miriam was a happy lady. Being married to uncle Dave, our Beekeeper, she enjoyed life to the fullest.

I remember her well, sitting in the corner of the living room, in front on the little table with her always there glass of mead and the ashtray with her cigarettes while playing her favorite card game "patience". When we visited she always welcomed us with a capital smile, and offered a glass of mead to my parents and some honey lemonade for us kids..

She was always short of breath though, and often when we came by she asked us to bring the drinks around, so she could go sit down again and enjoy her little game of "patience".

Aunt Miriam used to say: "My friend Bruce taught me to play this little game of cards.. he always said that it was very easy to play.. the only capital mistake you can make is to take the short version of it. You need to play it to its full length. And consider all the variables."

Aunt Miriam sadly passed away in November 1985. The doctors think it was a heart attack, but they could not be sure, and until recently we had no clue either.


The thoughts on aunt Miriam's life diminished a little bit over time, and only the happy thoughts stayed. that is, until recently, when I was cleaning out the attic and found some of her medical records between several childhood relics I had stashed in some boxes.

These medical records show some reports from visiting the locally best cardiologist, Dr. Rossi. Dr. Rossi is the best in his area, and we were surprised to learn that his diagnosis were inconclusive. We are really wondering, did Aunt Miriam suffer from something unknown? Can you determine from the medical records if Aunt Miriam ran any Risk?
Can you put x and y together and assess what risk she ran and how high this risk was?


I have placed the medical records below. Perhaps you can make sense of them, because I can not!



With special thanks to FamSpeurneus for the excellent information needed to create the cache and to try the puzzle before it was published.

The above listed coordinates are the bogus coordinates, which are needed for the endcache but NOT for the puzzle you would need them at a later stage. There is also no need to go there and search for the cache, since nothing is hidden there

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Qb abg sbetrg gb ybbx n ovg shegure ng gur eryngrq jro cntr. guvf jvyy ernyyl uryc lbh shegure...

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)