Ice Cream? Mystery Cache

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El Nimrod: Never liked this puzzle, too ambiguous. Will be replacing with a traditional. Thanks to all wj=ho visited.

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Hidden : 8/10/2018
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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The cache is Not at the posted coordinates, but it is a great spot to get ice cream during the summer. To get the final cache coordinates, you need to solve the following ice cream related questions. Add your answers (X's) up and enter the number into the geochecker:

1. The “waffle cone” debuted in 19XX.

2. July was declared National Ice Cream Month (U.S.) in 19XX.

3. The X Sunday in July is National Ice Cream Day (U.S.).

4. X equals the number of letters in the name of the most popular ice cream flavour in the U.S.

5. It takes approximately XX licks to finish a single scoop ice cream cone.

6. X syrup is the world’s most popular ice cream topping (where X=number of letters).

7. The first known ice cream recipe was hand-written in 16XX.

8. X gallons of milk are needed to produce 1 gallon of ice cream.

9. X% of all milk produced in the U.S. is used to make ice cream.

10. The state of X produces the most ice cream in the U.S. XX = number of letters in the state’s name.

11. Today, Neopolitan ice cream is traditionally vanilla, chocolate & strawberry. Earliest versions consisted of which 3 colours (X=number of letters in the sum of the 3 answers).

12. A cow gives enough milk to make X gallons of ice cream per day.

13. One in XX people admit to licking the bowl clean after eating ice cream, and one in X people share ice cream with their pet.

14. XX percent of Americans have ice cream in their freezer at any given time.

15. Baskin-Robbins advertises that it has XX number of flavours.

16. Ben & Jerry’s opened their first store in Vermont (in an old renovated gas station) in 19XX, and their knowledge was based on an X dollar correspondence course in ice cream from Penn State

17. “Under every lid, a sweet reward awaits” is the motto for which ice cream giant? (X=the number of letters in the corporate name)

18. XX feet is the tallest ice cream cone on record (Norway; 2015 Guinness Book of records).

Use extreme STEALTH in retrieving and replacing the container and re-hide as found. If retrieval is impossible or the cache seems to be missing, e-mail me your final coordinates for permission to log as found



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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zntargvp anab/ovfba

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)


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