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Skip a Bit, Brother! Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 2/12/2019
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Skip a Bit, Brother!

 

This is a puzzle cache.  It is not at the listed coordinates.  To obtain the cache coordinates, please solve the following puzzle.

 

This cache is part of The Atoz Sequence series.  Click here for more information.

 

Step 1

 

Answer the first two questions below out loud and then say, out loud, the first answer that comes to your mind for the third question:

 

1 - What continent is Kenya in?

 

2 - What are the two opposing colors in the game of chess?

 

3 - Name any animal.

 

Step 2

 

Let X be the number of letters in the name of your animal.

 

Step 3

 

Let Z be the number of days it has rained in Astoria this year, then multiply by the number of red houses within one mile of the posted coordinates (after subtracting the product of the number of chances it takes to win a coin toss by the result of dividing the spectrum of the sun at 2 PM by the final factor in 278) and then, if this is a Wednesday, wait until Thursday, or if it is a Saturday, give up and solve another puzzle, after which divide any remainder by the number of zilliwags in a choubouder and factor in at least 20 or 30 times the number of hours in an endless day (but don't forget to discount numerical sphymilimiter redundancy) all whilst maintaining a running total of the number of drops it takes to fill a bottle given a 2% evaporation rate over a period of time demarked by dawn and whenever, and then, assuming you have made no errors so far, add the number of decibels in Carol Burnett's Tarzan yell divided by the remainder from Step 19 (but only if cloud cover exceeds 80%) while making sure to ignore any substantial remainders at your peril and not neglecting to allow for solar eclipse frequencies over the past 732 years and finally, and most importantly, multiply by 3.256 if you feel like it, or by Pi otherwise and then multiply the whole thing by 0 if your animal is not a reptile.

 

Step 4

 

Let YY = X + Z

 

Step 5

 

Multiply YY by 13.

 

Step 6

 

Build the coordinates:

 

N 46 11.117

 

W 123 48.8YY

 

Step 7

 

Verify your coordinates

 

Step 8

 

Go get the cache!

 

Don't forget to make a note of the clues on the cache log.  You will need them to solve The Atoz Sequence!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgnaq snpvat qbja gur genvy vagb gur sberfg. N srj srrg yrsg bs jurer gur fvatyr lryybj cbyr napube zrrgf gur tebhaq. Va sebag bs gur ybt ba gur evtug fvqr bs gur genvyurnq.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)