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Mathemagics Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/13/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A quick park-and-grab once you have the final co-ordinates.  L+L


Lately my FTF's have jumped so decided to look at giving a group of people opportunity for a combined one.  To find the co-ordinates you need to do some simple maths, however, two of the variables are unknown to the CO, so let's see what happens!

Let's start with these 2 variables;

Variable 1 represented as "AB" is your age.  If your age is less than 10, add a 0 to the front of it, eg: 08 or if your age is 3 digits please tell me about yourself and use only the last 2 digits.

Variable 2 represented by "CD" is the age of your partner/friend/caching buddy etc, using the same rules as for variable 1.

Now do the following calculation:

Step 1: "AB" X 2  (variable 1 times two)

Step 2: Answer from step 1 add 5

Step 3: Answer from step 2 multiply by 50

Step 4: Answer from step 3 subtract 365

Step 5: Answer from step 4 add "CD" (add variable 2)

Step 6: Using "ABCD" (Variable 1 and Variable 2 next to each other) as a 4 digit number, subtract the answer from step 5

You should now have a 4 digit answer "WXYZ".  If not, add zeroes to the left, eg: if your answer is 123, make it 0123.

WXYZ will now be used to determine the coordinates.

The final coordinates are:

S25 (Z)(W).(Z)(X+Y+Z)(Z) E28 (X)(Z-Y).(Z)(Z)(Y+Z)

Good luck!

 


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: fbzr fvzcyr znguf zntvp (v.r. n one gevpx) Pnpur: Anab fvmr + zntargvp, pbeare = YBT VG

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)