A reward awaits those who are willing to seek out the secret garden that can be found here.
Perhaps, if you are familiar with this place you can find that which you seek but if you are new, you will discover a wondrous place filled with beauty and whimsy and surprises. The joy of finding this virtual location is in the wandering. Let yourself wander and wonder. If you cannot find it, all is not lost as the hint should provide sufficient clues.
There is no need to leave the provided paths.
To find the garden, solve the following puzzle, but don't be alarmed if you don't know how as we're providing the exact tools to solve as part of the third Puzzle School lesson. Read on. The puzzle:
Once you have found the garden, seek out the words of those poets and wisefolk who preceded you and provide no less than three such quotes to the Cache Owner via Private Message. Any answers provided in logs will result in log deletion.
Please avoid log spoilers to allow others the same experience of surprise at the discovery.
Puzzle School Lesson #3
Braille Alphabet Cipher
Louis Braille first presented Braille in 1829. Braille encryption uses this specific alphabet for the visually impaired, composed of dots. Each letter corresponds to a combination of 6 points. The dots are read in column and are numbered 1-2-3 for the first column and 4-5-6 for the second. Braille decryption requires only a substitution with a Braille alphabet symbol (6 dots).
To decode a message written in Braille, substitute each braille set of dots for a letter, number or punctuation.
Try it Now!
Take each set of 2 columns and find the corresponding set from the braille alphabet (links to online versions of the alphabet below).
Tip: In addition to the cipher text, some puzzles throw in things like extra characters, intentional misspellings or spelling out numbers to make it harder to guess without doing the work for the puzzle. Can you see how we are doing this here?
Tip: Having trouble? Look around the cache page for other helpful information. It is common in puzzles to provide additional clues within the cache or to incorporate elements such as the Image gallery (hint, hint). You may find something here that is useful in solving.
For more help and for the Braille alphabet, see our sources below:
Sources: http://www.dcode.fr/braille-alphabet
http://braillebug.afb.org/braille_print.asp
Virtual Reward - 2017/2018
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between August 24, 2017 and August 24, 2018. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards on the Geocaching Blog.