How quickly can you find out what’s unusual in this paragraph? It looks so ordinary you’d think nothing was wrong with it at all -- and, in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. But you must do it without coaching: I’m not going to assist you in any way. No doubt, if you work at it for a bit, it will dawn on you. Who knows until you try? So hop to it, try your skill and pray for luck. Par is about half an hour.
Unrelated to the cache puzzle:
I grew up in the 80's and 90's so thought it would be fun to name any caches I hide after movies, songs, etc. from that era. You Oughta Know, sung by Alanis Morissette, was nominated for three Grammy Awards, winning the awards for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Plus, it seemed an appropriate name for this cache.
For the hide itself:
The cache is not at the posted coordinates. You must solve for the final coordinates.
Subtract 0.003 latitude and 0.142 longitude from the puzzle solution. I had to move the original final location as it was too close to another cache GZ.
The final is less than 1 mile from the posted coordinates.
Please limit your searching to the hours between dawn and dusk to respect nearby residents.
Please replace the cache exactly as you found it to maintain the camouflage.
Please be sure to sign the log, which I'm sure you'd do anyway. I do periodically check on my caches and will reluctantly delete any "found it" claims without a physical log entry.
Please don't provide hints with your online log entry. I do check my messages regularly and will help those who ask.
Additional information that may or may not be of help:
A hint to get you started: Everything you need for solving this puzzle is on this page. You could just print a copy and quickly work out the solution.
Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
Nearly 3 percent of the ice in Arctic glaciers is penguin urine.
If you leave everything for the last minute . . . it will only take a minute.
list of common words: apple drum pixel dog eyelid bug lei believe shell excellent koala bear bedbugs
list of possibly random numbers: 872122219470474
list of numerical values assigned to letters of the alphabet:
A = 3 B = 1 C = 1 D = 3 E = 2
F = 8 G = 7 H = 1 I = 5 J = 8
K = 4 L = 3 M = 7 N = 3 O = 3
P = 2 Q = 1 R = 4 S = 4 T = 5
U = 5 V = 2 W = 9 X = 1 Y = 2
Z = 1
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
Congratulations to jtcoffee for being FTF!!