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Recursion Mystery Cache

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jatmo: I really liked the idea for this cache and I may use it again in the future. Unfortunately, geocaching.com does not have a mechanism for using original images on the site and I'm tired of the link breaking every few months due to some stupidity on off-site image storage solutions.

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Hidden : 12/15/2018
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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I took a picture while on vacation with my family. I believe one of my kids doctored the photo somehow and it is supposed to lead you to a cache. Hopefully someone will figure out what they did.

 

The location the image was hosted is no longer available. If you know of a good site to host the image that provides an embeddable url to the image let me know. Until then, use this link to access the image. After clicking on the link, there are three vertical dots in the upper right. Click on that and then Download All.

Not a great definition but this should help. Recursion is like an onion. Peel off a layer and the next layer is similar. Peel that layer and you have something similar. Eventually you get to the goal.

Here is an example of recursion. There is an organization called GNU that was founded by a programmer. What does GNU stand for? GNU's Not Unix. What does the GNU in that expression stand for? GNU's Not Unix. Obviously, this goes on forever. Similarly, you have a puzzle and a hint. You just need to figure out how the puzzle is recursive. Lucky for you, in the case of this puzzle the recursion ends after a number of iterations.

Right click on the image and save it. That way you know you are looking at the original.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pebgpu bs gerr chmmyr: 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)