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24 Carrots (KPC2016) Mystery Cache

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kablooey: Because the current hide location is no longer viable, I'm just going to archive this cache.

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Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not located at the above coordinates. Solve the following puzzle to find the location of the cache.


Imagine you're in a land with no rulers or tape measures, where meters and inches don't exist. What would you use for measurement? Apparently, some people have decided to use produce. Many of you will probably be familiar with this. Of course, it's kind of hard to measure things in carrots. I mean, who's determining what the average size of a carrot is? Well, I guess we had the same issue when we measured using the king's (the ruler's) foot as a standard.

Special Notes about the 2016 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with Certitude. Finders will receive Top Finder points when submitting Found It logs to the cache page. All "point" scoring is arbitrary, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be announced sooner at the celebration party, expected to be December 11th, and even that might not happen in the right order). The real challenge is just to see whether you can solve all of these caches by the end of the year. To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.

Special Notes about this month's cache: Nothing special, just some more foreshadowing.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

First To Solve: teamajk (11 minutes)
First To Log: jeremiahsjohnson (95 minutes)
Named pre-hint solvers: 61
Pre-hint finds logged: 21
KPC2016 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2016 Finders Scoreboard
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hint added 11/15] Gur cbfgrq pbbeqvangrf jrer hfrq sbe bar bs gur fbheprf sbe gur vzntrf.

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)