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300 Blue Question Marks Challenge Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/16/2017
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache is at the posted coordinates. It's a challenge... with a bonus challenge.  

My goal this year was to become a puzzle solver. I had only found 100 unknown caches at the start of this year; I just found them to be too hard! I didn't even try them, since I figured I wouldn't get anywhere. So, I set a goal: find twice as many this year as I had ever found, giving me 300 blue question marks. Amazingly, I did it and I learned so much!

There is a brute-force method down the hill to this cache, and a more labrinthian approach. I reccommend the latter. I love the symmetry with this path and my usual approach to solving a puzzle: I try one thing for a while, see that I don't get anywhere with it, so I head in a totally different direction... and so forth, until I find what I am looking for.

One of my favorite puzzles to solve is a field puzzle. Once you arrive at GZ, you'll have an extra challenge of getting the container open. As a reminder - you must sign the log in order to claim a find - if you can't get the container open, you cannot claim the find. 

Many thanks for mc3cats and squirrel50 for the container. There is a geocaching patch awaiting the FTF'er.

To find this cache: you must have found at least 300 unknown caches.

  • Previous finds count
  • These can be puzzles or challenge caches: all that is required is the cachetype.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hide] Va gur ebbgf bs n gerr [Container] Gurer vf n yvggyr aho haqre gur ybtb.

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)