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NZ T-Rex 6: @#$%&!! (Canterbury) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/11/2018
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


This cache is part of a series that requires you to find mystery caches by first solving five Trexagon puzzles of varying difficulty. Each of the five puzzle solutions contains the coordinates for a cache, and placed either in the geochecker for each cache, or in the cache container itself, is part of a final "Killer" Trexagon puzzle, whose solution leads to this cache. A blank Trexagon board can be downloaded here.

The other caches in the series are:

The rules for Trexagon are simple, and are as follows:

  1. The goal is to fill all triangle cells in the Trexagon board shown below.
  2. Place a digit from 1 to 7 in each triangle so no digit is repeated within a horizontal row or any diagonal in any direction.
  3. The inner shaded triangle does not contain a digit.
  4. Each puzzle has only one solution.
  5. The board contains several zones, that is, triangle groupings marked by heavy borders. Each zone has a desired value and an operator + , − , × , ÷ . The digits in each zone will produce the desired value using the given operator.
  6. When a zone contains just a single triangle, then the identified digit can simply be inserted.

Each row in the Trexagon board is denoted by a letter (A-D) from top to bottom. Each triangle within a row is numbered from left to right starting at 1. So, A1 is the left-most triangle in the top row. Use the values in your solution to calculate the location of the cache according to the formulas below.

S 43 32.STU
E 172 39.XYZ

S = A1 + C5
T = B5 + C3
U = A4 + B4

X = A3 - C1
Y = B3 - B2
Z = D3 - A7

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abg tebhaq yriry. Penqyrq.

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)