Skip to content

Pectophobia (KPC2014) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

Join now to view geocache location details. It's free!

Watch

How Geocaching Works

Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions in our disclaimer.

Geocache Description:

The cache is not located at the listed coordinates. You will need to solve a puzzle in order to find the cache location.

Special Notes about the 2014 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with certitude. All "point" scoring is arbitrary, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be announced sooner at the celebration party, and even that might not happen in the right order). The real challenge is just to see whether you can solve all of these caches by the end of the year. To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.

Special Notes about this month's cache: The North Star was grumbling that it would be nice if some KPC caches could be hidden in San Jose again. I was intending to hide an Altoids tin here, but somehow a magnet wouldn't work at this location. Probably there's something otherworldly going on here that I just don't understand.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.


First To Solve: fmoraes (10 minutes)
First To Log: lel_h (6 hours)
Named pre-hint solvers: 45
Pre-hint finds logged: 20
KPC2014 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2014 Finders Scoreboard
Previous KPC Puzzle: Caught in the Middle (KPC2014)
Next KPC Puzzle: Some caches y'all have found (KPC2014)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Spoiler Hint, added August 15th] "V unir 6,000 fgvyy va zvag pbaqvgvba"

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)