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Sonnet 18 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/6/2014
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the listed coordinates.
Study Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 to solve for the actual location.


Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?


Thou art more lovely and more temperate:


Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,


And summer's lease hath all too short a date;



Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,


And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;


And every fair from fair sometime declines,


By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;



But thy eternal summer shall not fade,


Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;


Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,


When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:


So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,


So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.






N 40° A.B
W 74° C.D


A = "Infinite" duration of spiritual connection in Lines 9 and 12 (corresponding "symbol" turned sideways) (add 51)

B = What will give eternal life?
  • the summer's day = 857
  • this sonnet = 408
  • the eye of heaven = 650
  • nature's changing course = 211
C = In the title (subtract 2)

D = Total # of iambs in any Shakespearean sonnet (multiply by 13)


Citation:
Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 18. Ed. Amanda Mabillard. Shakespeare Online. 12 Nov. 2008. Sonnet 18 paraphrased





The cache container is a factory-camo-colored bison tube. It has a black plastic wire tie looped onto a tree. The cache can be obtained by removing the bison tube or removing the container in situ. The modest-sized tree is nearby some giants.

~ FTF: BigA800 ~

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[A is] svsgl-avar [Cache] ovfba mvc nggnpurq gb fgvpx va gerr; erghearq gb bevtvany pbbeqvangrf 25 Wna 2020

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)