This cache is hidden at a Madison Park, no night geocaching please, there are neighbors and the community does not need the disruption. You will need to use stealth for the find. No geochecker for the coordinates, when you solve the puzzle and unscramble the words, it will reveal where the final container is hidden. This puzzle cache uses string commands to pull certain letters from text.
For an example of how this works, let us pretend that Answer0 is The Clash.
The three commands are left, mid, and right. The left command returns the leftmost characters in a string. Mid returns characters within a string, starting at the middle character position, and the length of the last number. Right returns the rightmost characters in a string.
For Left(Answer0, 3) would return The.
Right (Answer0, 4) would return lash.
Mid(Answer0, 4, 3) would return Cl, as it returns the 3 characters from the fourth position and the fourth character is a space and is included as a valid character for a string, so it would be _Cl. This probably also gives you a clue that your Answer0 might be wrong, unless you think there is a word _Cl
Questions? Of course not! Have fun!
Clue1: Mid(Answer1, 7, 2) where Answer1 is the title of a song from the artist formerly known as Hannah Montana and is the only song on the disc that has an acronym. The acronym could also be considered an initialism [2009] (203)
Clue 2: Left(Answer2, 1) where Answer2 is the title of a song from the band whose name was inspired from a phrase about kissing a posterior and this song is from an album title has three select letters that rumdum might approve of, and the song title is a color match to the Van Morrison classic song [1985][2004] (222)
Clue 3: Mid(Answer3, 7, 3) where Answer3 is the title of a song from a solo artist better known for his singing on a group with a name that sounds more like part of the Abbott and Costello baseball comedy bit. The title of the album was a tribute to the band's late drummer and so was this song which includes the lyrics "the heart grows older, but never ever learns" [1985] (276)
Clue 4: Mid(Answer4, 32,4)+'e' where Answer4 is the title of a song that should be required listening if you enjoy this activity and you are a married male. There is a parenthesis in this song's title. Last name of artist is a homonym for the second name of a place where you can get an adult beverage in a store after 9 PM at 609 North Sherman Avenue, Madison 53714. [2008](209)
Clue 5: Left(Answer5, 4) where Answer5 is the name of the album title that has a song title that shares two consecutive words with a song from the album in Clue 3, by the group that shares eight consecutive characters in the first part of its name from the GC59Q53 cache name [2015](155)
Clue 6: Mid(Answer6,11,1) where Answer6 is the song title which is only 1/60 of what the Sunday night news program that attempted to be timely on the network where part of its symbol is also part of the song for Clue2. The song is not the same as the album title, oh no, no can do. [1981](218)
Clue 7: Right(Answer7,3) where Answer7 is the Album name for the band with Conor, Mike, and Nate who also share the last name of their band with the plural of the network symbol in clue6, and the song in clue 2. There is no apostrophe in the song used for help on this [2011](236)
Clue 8: Left(Answer8, 6) where Answer8 is a title of a song that has the same word as in Answer2 and is by the group the artist in Clue3 belongs to. Ironically, the title of the album also sounds like it could have been part of the comedy bit in Clue3. [1971](217)
Clue 9:Right(Answer9, 4) where Answer9 is the name of a song from an artist who would have something in common with the titles of GC32EXK and GC331CC. The single word album title scrambled is repoups [2008](242)
Clue 10:Answer10 is the most frequent first word song title in the album by the Clash where the last track on the album was originally excluded from the back cover's track listing but was added at the last minute. [1979](654)
Clue 11: Mid(Answer11, 17, 2) where Answer11 is the song title from pioneers of sampling that share the first three consecutive characters of their name with the band from Clue8. Not five minutes of funk, but a cautionary tale about what happens when the sun goes down[1984](283)
Clue 12: Right(Answer12, 4) where Answer12 is the song name where you might have been able to find "The Boss" on the dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets. [1975](290)
Clue 13: Mid(Answer13, 8, 4) where Answer13 is the song name with a video that received heavy rotation on newly launched MTV. The video was converted into black and white because the lead singer did not like the look of her red leather jumpsuit in color. The song was also parodied by Weird Al who apparently loved ice cream. [1982] (175)
Clue 14:Answer14 is the atomic number of the following element which was discovered by Albert Ghiorso and colleagues but it was not the element named for Albert.[1953]
Clue 15: Left(Answer15, 6) Song by a group whose name when scrambled spells lior likey (two separate words). The first word of this song is the atomic number of the element that is equal to the fifteenth prime number. [2007](218)
Clue 16: Left(Answer16, 4) Title track from the artist who first dropped the Revolution and later became a symbol. You can solve this one 'o' yes you can [1987](297)
Have fun!
This cache follows the requirements from the Madison Parks Department website below: Geocaching is only allowed in general parklands in the City of Madison. It is prohibited at the following locations: Forest Hill Cemetery, Olbrich Botanical Gardens, all City of Madison conservations parks, all City of Madison golf courses and all areas with identified Indian Mounds. All geocachers will be respectful of all public parkland. No digging or penetration of ground surface will be permitted. Trees, shrubs and plants will not be disturbed or altered at any time.
No hints until we hit 10 finders and I will list the top 20 finders if they find them in a year from publication date
Cache difficulty is for the puzzle only, the hide is more like a 1 or 1.5 for difficulty
Congratulations on the FTF to : CEO&J
#1 FTF: CEO&J
#2 STF: Coconut Cannonball
#3. TTF rumdum
#4. 2CraziesMSN
#5. j&k&kids
#6. sandlanders
#7. ckrider98
#8. Htl
#9. tree
#10. LackNothing