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Honey, Let's Cache Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/19/2021
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Cache is not at posted coordinates. That's a good place to park.

I play the New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle game. There are seven unique letters in hexagonal cells arranged in a honeycomb shape. Those letters are used (perhaps multiple times) in at least one pangram (word that includes all seven letters). This article about the game history is not needed to understand the puzzle: Genius of Spelling Bee.

Those of us who solve geocaching puzzles around here know something else has seven - coordinates. Further from the Prime Meridian, longitude often needs 8 digits. Sometimes we can get away with fewer digits. But in our area, seven digits works.

The puzzle is to find each of the two pangram words - one per puzzle. The digits associated with the letters as they are used in the pangrams will be the coordinates for the container. The pangram words will be longer than seven letters. Ignore those extra digits. Letters can (and will) be reused in these puzzles. Remember that you know things about coordinates here. That's a hint and will help you get started finding the pangrams.

After FTF, I added an example puzzle to the gallery. Solving it results in bogus coordinates of 50 12.305 (ignore the extra 627 at the end).

Congratulations to alsbjudge and suzymjb2 on the first-to-find.

North

West

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ybj pnzb'q grfg ghor.

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)