Quintessential Quashing!
The cache is not at the posted coordinates. Solve the following puzzle to learn the true cache location.
This cache is part of The Atoz Sequence series. Click here for more information.
Consider the following list of links to worldwide geocaches:
All Saints
Cloverleaf
Easter Egg Hunt - Great Scott!
Fok nou paré - Montagne Pelée
Formicidae
H2SO4 - አሲድነት ሐይቅ - ACIDIC LAKE!
La pietra fosforica di Bologna
Local Landmarks #2: "Nyhavn"
NW Green Oaks #10
Owner
Pelican Dream
Solfar
Sportsclub
"TEA FOR TWO."
Urine for a Paddle
Vanilla
I'm sure you would love to go find them all, but perhaps this puzzle will be a good consolation.
Each of the statements below should quash (eliminate) one of the caches in the list. At the end, you should be left with just one, the target cache.
Expect to use Google Earth and Street View.
The target cache:
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IS NOT on the banks of its country's longest river.
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IS NOT near the oldest university in continuous operation.
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IS owned by a cacher who also owns fewer than 25 Virtuals.
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WAS NOT logged by Yoda as the FTF.
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HAS been found.
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IS NOT in a volcano.
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IS NOT part of geoart.
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IS above sea level.
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DOES NOT share its name with a quasar.
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IS NOT a quarter mile from the world's favorite geocache (most Favorited).
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IS NOT adjacent to crap circles.
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IS NOT visible in Street View whilst being found.
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IS NOT a sun voyager.
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WAS NOT published by a dinosaur.
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IS NOT here:
Using information from the target cache's listing, perform the following gyrations to compute the location of this cache:
Multiply the month number the cache owner found his/her first geocache by the number of letters in his/her caching name and add the last two digits of the year in which the cache owner joined Geocaching then subtract the number of letters in the cache title then add 745 if the cache is recommended for tourists or if not add 329 after which divide your results so far by the sum of the 15 digits of the ORIGINAL ("changed from") cache coordinates and add to that the number of letters in the country in which the cache lives followed by multiplying by the 4-digit year the cache was hidden and then divide by the number of words in the DNF of 12/26/15 and multiply by 3 if the hint suggests looking behind the sign or by 2 otherwise and then drop the decimal part of the result.
Oh, and then add 804 to get ABCDE and add 38,256 to get FGHIJ.
The cache is at:
N 46 AB.CDE
W 123 FG.HIJ
Verify your solution here.
Don't forget to make a note of the clues on the cache log. You will need them to solve The Atoz Sequence!