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Escape the Woods! The Bonus! GAGB Award Runner Up Letterbox Hybrid

Hidden : 6/20/2020
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:



Escape the Woods!

✓ Runner up for Best Cache at the GAGB Geocaching Awards 2023.

✓ #7 cache within Buckinghamshire by % favourite points (see Project-GC).


Escape the Woods!

Find all six letterbox hybrid caches and Escape the Woods!

Cache is not at the published coordinates:
You'll need to find the other five letterbox hybrids in these woods first.

Important Note:
Please do not remove the self-inking stamp from this cache.

Will you be fast? Will you be slow? Will you give up?
Hidden within these woods are six letterbox hybrid caches. By finding the other five first you will be provided with all you need to locate and access this, the final. Then, and only then, will you be safe to escape the woods. You can make this easy or hard but that's at least partly down to luck. Will you avoid visiting a cache more than once (doubtful)? If you arrive at a cache without the information you need to open it, it's likely you'll need to go to another first. Experienced Escape Room afficiados will probably have a slight advantage.

Just for fun. Why not time yourself and add this to your log? Start when you enter the tunnel and end when you successfuly escape the woods and come back through. Please also specify in your log if you complete on foot or via some other means.

You will need water, a torch, and something small and magnetic like a penny. Oh, and patience, quite a bit of that would help.

This puzzle grid will really help. Print it out if you can.

Puzzle Grid

Once you've completed the grid this cache can be found at:
N 51° 38.ABC' W 0° 51.DEB'

The cache can be unlocked with a four digit code:
(CEDB x D) + CCB

Good luck!

Cache placed with the kind permission of the Forestry Commission.
The landowner (Forestry Commission East England) does not assess the suitability or safety of the cache location. The cache placer and the cache finder have a responsibility to take reasonable precautions to protect their own safety and the safety of others. Hazards observed at or on route to the cache location should be reported to the cache placer.

Congratulations to Burton's are go! for the FTF!

Leaderboard

Position Cacher Time
1 ChristmasRose ~1h 30m
2 twinkandco 1h 41m
3 NevilleDog_n_Humans 1h 45m
4 ammotuner & Highsecurity 1h 50m
5 Kubsat76, Paulared, Only The Brave, Dumpster41 & Smyth71 - KPODS 1h 52m
6 look-sharp ~2h
7 drrslater 2h 4m
8 AplusBminusC 2h 6m
9 Herts_Skip & Minxlet ~2h 10m
10 happy~campers 2h 15m
  DaveDino48 2h 15m
12 insertcure & minadequate 2h 20m
  Sapphirites 2h 20m
  connie159 2h 20m
15 Hartshorns & SpottyZzebra 2h 25m
16 tetley glc 2h 35m
17 LinseyG, mbtkz & Trikonasana 2h 36m 40s
18 Stucuk & TT 2h 43m
19 Bunnyxx & LiamBaxter88 2h 45m
20 bmlsg 2h 50m
21 Burton's are go! (FTF) 2h 55m
22 Team Hippo 3h 2m
23 rosela ~3h 5m
  Hann&Max 3h 10m
25 Lmw1980 3h 10m
26 Billbl & manda_iow 3h 15m
27 Pesh 1d 2h
28 The4RedEagles 1d 3h 5m
29 will and dan ~1d 4h
30 **Andy** & King Louis XIX 5d 1h 45m
31 Simply Paul 5d 22h 30m
32 Oxford Stone & Oxford Stone Junior Around 2 weeks
33 misty's muskateers & wendykmj 6 days
34 Campie17 & Detegeo 18 days
35 Yateley Zookeepers 40 days
36 Trixie81 Around 3.5 months
37 FamousEccles Just under 4 months
38 alfieo & Cheeky_Chimp ?
- will and dan One more to go!
- Amberel One more to go!
- liberal giraffe Three more to go!
- SiBo1980 Three more to go!
- nickyfox123 & wbtb76 Three more to go!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Ivfvg nyy srrqre yrggreobk pnpurf gb trg gur nafjref. Lbh znl unir gb erivfvg fbzr pnpurf vs lbh qba'g dhvgr unir nyy lbh arrq gb npprff gurz lrg. Qrcraqf ubj yhpxl lbh trg. Pnpur: Ubyyl (fbeel!) ng sbbg bs snyyra gerr.

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)