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Nutmeg Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 6/7/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

I've been wanting to put out a power trail for some time now and I finally got around to making it happen. The trail consists of 22 caches that are either traditional or mystery type caches. All are in the theme of "Culinary Herbs and Spices".


The caches in this series are not park-n-go's. They are best done by biking or parking your cache mobile and searching for them on foot.

Please do not rotate caches, each one is uniquely hidden and labeled.

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The cache is not located at the posted coordinates.

In order to find the cache you must first solve the puzzle below:

N 38 41.ABC

A. Nutmeg is the seed of the tree, roughly egg-shaped and about 20.5 to (A)0 mm long...

B. Whole dry mace consists of flat pieces—smooth, horny, and brittle—about 1.(B) in long.

C. Until the mid-1(C)th century, the small island group of the Banda Islands, which are also known under the name "Spice Islands," was the only location of the production of nutmeg and mace in the world.

W 121 15.DEF

D. Nutmeg butter is obtained from the nut by expression. It is semisolid, reddish-brown in color, and tastes and smells of nutmeg. About (D)5% (by weight) of nutmeg butter is trimyristin, which can be turned into myristic acid, a 14-carbon fatty acid.

E. The national flag of Grenada, adopted in 197(E), shows a stylised split-open nutmeg fruit.

F. Nutmeg is known to have been a prized and costly spice in European medieval cuisine as a flavoring, medicinal, and preservative agent. Saint Theodore the Studite (c. 75(F) – 826) allowed his monks to sprinkle nutmeg on their pease pudding when required to eat it.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Congratulations to soft298 for FTS!

Congratulations to LewisClan77 for FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Puzzle]: Jvxv [Cache]: Uvag vf va pregvghqr

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)