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The Importance of Being Earnest (KPC2020) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not hidden at the given coordinates. Solve the following puzzle to determine the coordinates of the cache.

Today sometimes things are not what they seem. That shouldn't be the case for this cache because I didn't have time to do anything so creative today. Maybe you'll learn something new today, at least.

  • Mary Westmacott
  • A.A. Fair
  • Mark Twain
  • J.D. Robb
  • Robert Galbraith
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Pierre Delecto
  • Richard Bachman
  • Mason Saunders
  • Careu Kent
  • Wiz Khalifa
  • John Sedges
  • Alexandr Sokolov
  • Thoinot Arbeau
  • Paul French

Special Note about the 2019 Puzzle Challenge: The 2019 Celebration Party is postponed.

Special Notes about the 2020 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with Certitude. Finders will receive Top Finder points when submitting Found It logs to the cache page. All "point" scoring is arbitrary, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be announced sooner at the celebration party, assuming one happens sometime in 2021). The real challenge is to see whether I will have enough time to create a puzzle each month this year! To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.

Special Notes about this month's puzzle: Oops, I had Cachly set to ignore high-terrain caches and placed this month's cache too close to another and didn't notice until last night. Hid a new cache this morning.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

First To Solve: kcmcacher (6 minutes)
First To Log: lmt000 (82 minutes)
Named pre-hint solvers: 49
Pre-hint finds logged: 8
KPC2020 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2020 Finders Scoreboard
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hint added April 16th.] Gur anzrf tvira jrer abg gurve tvira anzrf.

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)