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KZN Nursery Rhymes #4 Hey Diddle Diddle Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/23/2015
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the published co-ordinates.

This series of caches has been created to encourage young children to participate.

Please ask your child/ren to answer the questions below and to help you calculate the final coordinates.

Please do not remove attached Swag and swag dropped should preferably be Rhyme related.  Thank you.


Hey Diddle Diddle


Hey diddle diddle is a fantasy rhyme designed to delight children with impossible images such "the Cow jumped over the Moon"! Walt Disney's team of animators use this type of imagery in animated films to great effect! The term 'Hey diddle diddle' can be found in the works of Shakespeare and was a colloquialism used in much the same vein as "hey nonny no" which can be found in traditional English folk ballads. The original title was 'High Diddle Diddle' but this has been altered to 'Hey Diddle Diddle' over the years with changes to the English language. The first known date of publication for the words of the Hey diddle diddle rhyme is 1765.

Hey diddle diddle rhyme

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun
And the dish ran away with the spoon!

Mother Goose’s Melody has Hey Diddle Diddle in 1765, where it appears much in the form we know it today. Frequently anthologised with only minor variances (‘fun’ is occasionally ‘sport'; ‘laughed’ occasionally ‘danced’), there is some evidence to suggest the rhyme has been well-known since the sixteenth century.

What did the dish run away with?

The final cache location is at S29 49.ABC  E030 46.XYZ

A = 2nd letter - the last letter + 1.

B = 1st letter - 2nd letter.

C = 2nd letter - Last letter

X = C

Y = 2nd digit of the 1st letter

Z = 3rd letter - 4th letter.



Additional Hints (Decrypt)

n = 1 naq m = 26

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)