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Psychedelic Wordgames #2 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/22/2018
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


This is the second of a short series of puzzle caches that are developed around some wordplay. I will provide some step by step directions that should make it pretty straightforward, but take care because the work involved can be tedious.

Step One: Do some on-line research about the band The Psychedelic Furs. Identify an album the band released with a repetitive, communications themed title. Identify a song on the album with a two word title where removing the space between the two words creates one word. The word is notable because it can apply to two storeys without being redundant.

Step Two: You are going to assign a numeric value to each one of those letters in the word created from the two-word song title from Step One. We are going to assign a value to every letter in the alphabet, where A = Zero and Z = 25. For example, the word MASK would have the following values: 12 - 0 -18 - 10. You should now have a unique value for each letter in your word from Step One.

Step Three: Perform the following calculations to get the 10 digits needed for the cache location, where "1L" refers to the numeric value of the first letter (for the example MASK, "1L" = 12, then "2L" = 0, etc):

1. L10 - L3

2. L5 - L2

3. L9 - L4

4. (L9 + L1) - L4

5. L6

6. L7 - L7

7. L2 - L3

8. L2 - L10

9. L11 - L3

10. L1

Your answer will be: N 38 XX.XXX W 077 XX.XXX

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Purpxfhz sbe yrggref va jbeq = 124 Uvqr: Gerrunatre Bofphen

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)