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Zodiac 💟 Bonus Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Cache is not at the posted coordinates so don't go there. Solve the puzzle to get the coordinates. BYOP!


Plagiarize!
Let no one else's work evade your eyes!
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So do not shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, PLAGIARIZE!!!
- Tom Lehrer, "Lobachevsky"

Yes, Sweetwind is a plagiarist. Every puzzle in this series, I stole from somewhere else. Sometimes with permission and sometimes I just went ahead and did it. So: for the grand finale, I'll be asking you to match up the Zodiac puzzle with the original puzzle. You don't have to have found any of these caches to solve this puzzle. You maybe don't even have to have solved any of them! (Note from 2021, someone recently suggested this cache qualifies for the new "bonus" attribute, but I read over the attribute description and I donʻt think it does -- I gather that the "bonus" attributeʻs real purpose is to warn you that you need to find other caches before you can even try for the bonus. Like the ones that have a code inside other caches and you need all the codes. This cache is not like that, I intended this cache to be findable even if you havenʻt found any of the others. Itʻs a "bonus" in the sense that I ran out of Zodiac signs, and still had one empty spot in the circle LOL)


Zodiac Puzzles
A = Gemini/GC7PVR6, GC7PVRA
B = Cancer/GC7TKY8
C = Leo/GC7V87N
D = Virgo/GC7WQGA, Bowie/GC7X6RF
E = Libra/GC7YHDT
F = Scorpius/GC7YEYH
G = Ophiuchus/GC7ZH2T
H = Sagittarius/GC7YEYQ
I = Capricornus/GC82G9J
J = Aquarius/GC833R7
K = Pisces/GC833R4
L = Aries/GC85AQW
M = Taurus/GC85N7R


"Inspiration"
____==0 GC11AGJ "For I am a bold deceiver" by viper394
____==0 GC6RCR3 "It's a Straightforward Maze" by lookoutdumdums
____==1 GC38X49 "NONE" by monkeydogfish
____==1 ...I don't actually know of a mystery cache that uses this simple trick as the puzzle (we are all so sophisticated now!), but bajatym's GC7491N "The Flying Dutchmen Made Me Do It" uses it for a "red herring" ;)
____==2 GC7TG47 "Mermaid : Hidden Creatures 2018" by bajatym, and GC7ZK0P "Zombie Season 2018 - Irish Zombie" by lamiekins
____==3 GC65Z9C "Twin Founders of Rome - Romulus" and GC65Z9X "Twin Founders of Rome - Remus" by fearthefish
____==3 GC23DE6 "LBC/Lakewood/W of the 605 Curse of the FTF #18" by I C IT
____==4 GCXMMB "Codes 3: The Code Source" by Mr. Waldo
____==4 GC7RD0W "nps - jomu" by nsearls25
____==7 GC792QZ "Sudoku?" by nsearls25
____==7 GC1YEEF "090909" by the Druids

____==7 GC71YYD "Red Beam" by Fuschia Lover
____==8 GC1J0RA "Count on it" by BluePearl

Cache is at N AA° BC.DEF', W GGH° IJ.KLM'

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

pnpur: zntargvp naq ybj

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)