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GAG29 - A Story of Toy Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/6/2021
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache was placed with the intention of being found for GAG29 - ie. not before 6:00 pm on September 25th, 2021.

As I was pondering the theme of GAG29, a number of words came to mind.  Hmmm … could a story be made from 8 of them – all toy-related verbs?  Hmmm …

“Once upon a time, a popular F decided to try to oust A from office.  He tried everything to get votes.  He put on political Bs.  He threw E.  He claimed the incumbent's office was a G.  He even hired someone to H with the voting machines.  No matter how he Ced he just made a D of himself.  When the votes were counted, it turned out that neither the incumbent nor the tradesman had a majority.  The race was won by a write-in candidate who garnered all the geocacher votes – fella that went by the name Binthair.”

To further assist you, here are some hints about those 8 words (note: they don't necessarily start with the letters A through H):

A = a "half cousin" of lollygag

B = a pull of the Big Apple

C = an eponymous Italian variety of this can be terribly expensive

D = a great, great, great …. great grandparent

E = where you’ll often find kids

F = in the 1970s a novel made this trade famous

G = sounds awful, but soldiers are drawn there

H = one of the guys re-asphalting our driveway last month was this

Write out A through H and number each letter sequentially.  The decimal minutes of the N and W coordinates of the largish micro cache are the alpha numeric values, or their digital roots, of the 5th, 12th, 14th, 18th, 24th and 36th letters.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

qvtvgny ebbgf bs gur 8 jbeqf ner 9, 9, 4, 2, 3, 5, 2, 1

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)