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Album Challenge #4: Pretty Hate Machine Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/11/2015
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is at the posted coordinates, and can be signed at any time. But you must first meet the requirements below before you can log a smiley on this challenge.


This is the fourth in a series of challenges I have placed in honor of my favorite albums. The challenge will be to find caches for each of the tracks on a given album. The rules are as followed:

  • You must find a different cache for each of the tracks of the album.
  • If the song title has multiple words, I will take any words in the title except conjunctions (and, or, but, nor, yet, so, for), articles (a, an, the), and short prepositions (in, to, of, at, by, up, for, off, on). I will make the words I will accept in BOLD.
  • The words must appear in the cache title and can't be part of another word. (ie: dishrag is not allowed for rag.)
  • You can have found the caches at anytime.

This time I have chosen an album that was the soundtrack to my senior year in high school.   As NIN was a local band to the Cleveland area, I had seen them live about 20 times in a 2 year period.  This album is almost entirely Trent Reznor on all instruments.  During working nights as a handyman and janitor at the Right Track Studio in Cleveland, Ohio, Trent Reznor used studio "down-time" to record and develop his own music. Playing most of the keyboards, drum machines, guitars, and samplers himself, he recorded a demo. The sequencing was done on a Macintosh Plus.

  1. "Head Like a Hole"
  2. "Terrible Lie" (I will allow for either Lie to be part of another word to make this one easier.
  3. "Down in it."
  4. "Sanctified" (No need to find a cache for this one since there is not a qualifying cache in US.)
  5. "Something I Can Never Have"
  6. "Kinda I Want To"
  7. "Sin" (I will allow for either Sin to be part of another word to make this one easier. Or this is just another freebie on the checker.)
  8. "That's What I Get"
  9. "The Only Time"
  10. "Ringfinger" (I will allow for either Ring or Finger even though the title is one word.)

I have made the hard ones easier for this one so this should not be to difficult to achieve with little travel.


I like challanges and I love music and this seems like a fun way to mix the two. Feel free to place your own cache in the series if you like the idea. (Feel free to use the banner as well.) I would love to see others favorite albums and would like the challenge of completeing them.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ng gur onfr bs fghzc haqre n trbcvyr.

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)