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The Library Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/16/2022
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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The Library of Babel was first featured in the short book by Jorge Luis Borges in 1941. This Library held every possible combination of 25 characters (22 letters, spaces, periods and commas). These books had a max of 410 pages (or 3200 characters), with 80 lines per book and 40 characters per line. Do the maths and the number of books in the Library of Babel is 251,312,000 ≈ 1.956 × 101,834,097.

This number is also known as Borges's number. To put that number in perspective. It has about 1.8 MILLION digits. This makes it larger than maximusmillion but smaller than googolbong. And don't worry, you don't have to know what those numbers mean.

This means that Library of Babel contains endless amounts of knowledge. A exact description of you and everything you did in your life, every single thing you ever wrote, the cure to cancer, how to stop global warming, how the earth will end, etc. In fact, the library of babel even contains this EXACT cache page (ok that's not entirely true because it doesn't allow certain characters).

Now this is enough to keep my brain up all night. If I make a amazing geocache that has never been seen before, did I actually invent it when there is a exact description of what it is in the Library of Babel? I dunno. (and yes this is what keeps me up at night)

The only problem is finding this knowldege and descriptions, as about 99.999% of the books just have random gibberish in them. Just going into a random book and you will almost 100% just get random letters

Now onto solving this cache. To solve this cache you will have to enter the Library of Babel (yes it is a thing! Well at least this is a online recreation). Then follow the instructions below carefully.

First go to browse. 

Then enter the following string into the hex name: 

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

Sorry I don't know how to change the format.

If you are on a computer you can double click it to highlight all of it then copy and paste it

Press Enter

Then go to Wall 3, Shelf 1

Then find the book called mqhtffrlrxkja..vc lrsf cxx (Volume 9)

(I know it sounds really boring but it contains the coords to the cache)

Then flick to page 96 and you might find something interesting... 

Hope you enjoy the library

(also afterwards you can select search and mess around there. It's fun :D)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Uvag va obbx

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)