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Alice Through the Looking Glass Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/11/2018
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the listed co-ordinates.


The adventures of Alice continued after her adventures in Wonderland, with the story Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). This story follows Alice as she travels to a strange world on the other side of the looking glass. Beginning in a garden of talking flowers, she sets off on a journey to the opposite end of the chess board. A sheep in a rowboat, a lion, a unicorn, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and an eccentric knight help Alice as she crosses the chess board. At the end, once Alice reaches the other end of the chess board, she is made a queen.



Generally known for his writing, Lewis Carroll - pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was also a poet, a mathematician, an inventor, a photographer, and a deacon. It is his books about a girl named Alice that he is mostly remembered by. Son of an Archdeacon with a talent for mathematics, Carroll obtained his master's degree and was soon after ordained as a deacon but was never ordained as a priest. These days, there are still societies around the world that are dedicated to the enjoyment and investigation of his works.


Nonsense poems are a central part of the story, as are characters from those poems. This story contains the poem Jabberwocky, which is one of Carroll's most well-known nonsense poems. Nonsense existed in literature well before Carroll wrote his Alice books, as nonsense existed in Shakespeare's work and in Brothers Grimm fairytales. The poem is shown in the picture below.




Beware the jaws that bite!

There is a three-digit number that is subtly hidden in at least four places in this listing. These are the South co-ordinates degrees. What should you do for the East co-ordinate degrees? Put them through the looking glass! For the sake of a symmetrical puzzle the co-ordinates are a bit off, but the cache is a few steps away at a nearby telephone pole at the edge of a hedge. Cache is attached to the metal pole on the telephone pole.


The cache is an ammo tin, if you had eaten a mushroom like Alice had in the first novel. To open it, squeeze the lid down while opening the side bit. It's magnetic, hidden behind the pipe low to the ground. Please replace in the same spot. Use stealth as GZ is close to residential areas.


FTF was IamCoust. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -The White Queen.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: ahzore uvqqra gjvpr va vzntrf, gjvpr va grkg. TP: zntargvp, nggnpurq gb cbyr ng raq bs urqtr.

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)