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First Trip Around the Sun (KPC2018) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not located at the posted coordinates. Solve the puzzle below to determine the cache coordinates.

BlooeyBug celebrated his first trip around the sun recently. To celebrate, I made a video and uploaded some photos from his first year.

It is not required to watch the video in order to solve the puzzle or to find the cache, and even if you start watching the video, you'll probably decide it's not worth watching all six minutes.

https://youtu.be/-eDclTY9Iws

Special Notes about the 2018 Puzzle Challenge: Okay, these notes are the same as last year's. 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, if there even is a celebration party). The real challenge is to see whether I will have enough time to create a puzzle each month this 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: Coords were a little tricky here. The hint will apply to a few spots in the general area; so keep searching.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

First To Solve: teamajk (79 minutes)
First To Log: nozy nabor (10 hours)
Named pre-hint solvers: 28
Pre-hint finds logged: 11
KPC2018 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2018 Finders Scoreboard
Previous KPC Puzzle: Special Delivery (KPC2018)
Next KPC Puzzle: Risen from the Dead (KPC2018)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hints added March 15th] Gb fubj bss sbe zl arcurj, V zrzbevmrq 365 qvtvgf bs cv. RKVS.

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)