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FF10K: Moon Logic Mystery Cache

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This cache is part of the Fizzy Fest 10K series.

Created because I know what a fan Fizzy is of Moon Logic...

Note that you are solving for six digits to replace the zeroes in the posted coords.

1. Moon astronauts were named Alpha, Beta, Charlie, Delta, Echo, and Foxtrot. And boy did each astronaut create quite a row!

2. Astronauts went for moonwalks on days from Monday-Saturday over a one week period.

3. Since moonwalking is a tiring thing, no astronaut went for more than one walk during any given day.

4. You might have heard - there are nine different space suits. "New", named after Newman, "Full", named after Fullman, and seven other suits (called the "Numbered Suits") numbered 1 to 7.

5. Use of any particular numbered suit is restricted to once per day. If suit 3 gets used on a Thursday, it can't be used again until Friday. There are no such restrictions on Full and New.

6. Alpha used the New suit three different times; no other astronaut used it more than once.

7. Numbered suits were used, in some order, by each astronaut a total of 0, 2, 2, 2, 3, and 4 times. On the different days numbered suits were used in some order a total of 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, and 3 times.

8. Despite not taking the most moonwalks, Delta ended up with the highest total of "suit numbers summed".

9. From six astronauts on six different days of the week, there were 36 potential moonwalks, of which 22 slots were filled.

10. Interestingly, the astronauts are superstitious about the numbered suits. Only one numbered suit was used twice by the same astronaut, and that happened with the maximum amount of days in between uses. Of any numbered suits Alpha used, the lowest came earliest in the week.

11. Looks like, in some order, there were a total of 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, and 5 moonwalks on the six different days.

12. Looks like, in some order, the astronauts took a total of 1, 3, 3, 4, 5, and 6 moonwalks during the week.

13. Once you add up the numbers in the suits (Full and New both counting as zero), in some order there was a total of 4, 7, 11, 13, 13, and 13 "suit numbers summed" during the six days of the week. The three 13's were all consecutive, occurring some time after the 7 and some time before the 4.

14. Measuring the "suit numbers summed" in some order of each astronaut's moonwalks give different totals, 0, 6, 9, 12, 13, and 21. If you take the letter associated with totals 21, 9, 13, 12, and 6 in order, you get a five letter word.

15. Interestingly, each suit was used at least once. But the three even numbered suits were only used a total of four times. Suit 7 was used four times, two more times than any other numbered suit got used. Full and New are popular suits, and each got used at least as many times as any numbered suit. Full was at least as popular as New. Full was used twice in a day (which was not Monday) before suit 1 was ever used. On three consecutive days Full was used by astronauts of consecutively decreasing alphabetical position (e.g. Charlie Monday to Beta Tuesday to Alpha Wednesday). Foxtrot used Full some time before New. Charlie used Full before using any of the numbered suits.

16. Noting the stench left on it, Astronaut C complained about using suit 6 on Wednesday, the day after Astronaut D used it.

17. Only on Tuesday did both the New and Full suits sit idle and only on Monday and Thursday were both used. Every astronaut used the New or Full suit at least once, though only Foxtrot used both suits. New was never used on consecutive days (excepting that on occasion it may have been used twice).

NOTE: If you think you have the right grid, you can enter the diagonals in to a cipher to verify. Start with Alpha/Mon then go to Foxtrot/Sat, followed by Foxtrot/Mon to Alpha/Sat. Enter in 12 characters, using "F" for Full, "N" for New, and "B" for any blank spaces. So your entry might look something like BF7B1FN5NNB3.

If you think your string is correct, use it as the decrypt key on the RC4 cipher here - your cipher text should be 262A7596D44B89E7455E8F4CFAA2F9C3E82CB4292C8CD7D9847D162B397565291C4531 to get the verification text to appear.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

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