The Black Hand Gang - The Mysterious House Mystery Cache
Hidden : 12/7/2016
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This series was designed with young cachers in mind. If you have young cachers in your family, you may wish to encourage them to help solve the puzzles, as well as attend the final locations of each cache. Advice concerning the suitability of the terrain for young children can be found by scrolling to the end of this cache listing or by clicking here.

Grown ups may remember that the Black Hand Society was instrumental in the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an incident that triggered World War I in 1914. This series has nothing to do with that. Young cachers can read more about that important event and the Black Hand Movement in websites like this one.

This series, rather, is inspired by a book from my childhood by Hans Jürgen Press. It was first published over fifty years ago and is now out of print. It has since been converted into a simple game you can search for on the net, which helped me reconnect with the book. I hope that by presenting this geocaching series, cachers might encourage children to become involved in reading the book, solving the simple puzzles and searching for the caches in the series. Grown ups will have to help with final calculations of cache coordinates.


The Black-Hand Gang Instructions
In order to complete your tasks you will need to download the clue books for each cache, in PDF format. I have created these PDF files myself on behalf of the Black Hand Gang, along with other puzzles files with links on this page. The gang assure me there should be no security issue with them. However, I am required to provide the following warning from Groundspeak:

Warning: You are about to download files that contain further details needed to find this geocache. As the cache owner, I represent that these files are safe to download although they have not been checked by Groundspeak or by the reviewer for possible malicious content. Download these files at your own risk

Once you have downloaded the PDF file, read the text on the left side of each page. Use the clues in the pictures on the right to solve the puzzle below. Some information has been redacted from the pages due to the Top Secret nature of the material you are working with.





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Terrain Suitability for Children
I have rated this cache 1½ terrain. It is highly suitable for young children. You can drive to within metres of the cache location. The ground is flat and should present no problems

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs ynetr gerr haqre ebpxf

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)


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