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CCCC #7: 10,000 Favorites challenge Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/14/2022
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Welcome to the Chittick's Comma Club Challenge: A series of challenge caches designed to give cachers approaching 1,000 finds something to aim for. This is a challenge cache and as such, you cannot claim the find until you've accomplished the requirements of the challenge. You are welcome to sign the log and write a note at anytime prior to qualifying, and then logging the smiley once you've completed the challenge. 

In order to log a find for this challenge, you must have amassed 10,000 favorite points on all of your finds combined. 

Many CO's live for creating memorable hides, from crazy puzzles to caches located in places only the most intrepid may be willing to go. It stands to reason that higher difficulty and higher terrain caches tend to amass favorite faster than some others, but this doesn't always hold true. The most favorited cache on the planet right now is a cache themed after ghosts in a German forest, GC11JM6, Geist des Hagen, which at the time I wrote this had 9246 favorites, and it's only a D1.5/T2. (Those thinking the most liked cache in the world was at the base of a lego giraffe, that cache was sadly archived in 2021). 

Most stat keep sites will help you keep track of how many favorites you've amassed in  your finds. I found some wild variances in what a person with 1,000 finds would have in their stats when I tested the challenge checker and found someone close to me that had only gotten 7,000 favorites on 1,000 finds, and another who was right around 1500 finds when they had admassed over 50,000 favorites. I will leave this bit of trivia for anyone looking for this cache before the end of 2022: as of right now you can go out and do some cleaning around your home, around your favorite park, around your favorite cache, or around your favorite watering hole, and on that alone claim GC8NEAT, Let's Improve the Outdoors, a locationless cache inspiring folks around the world to help clean up the outdoors whether as part of a CITO or just an afternoon of picking up trash, and as of May 2022, it has over 5600 favorites. That's more than halfway to the requirements of this challenge right there.

Congrats to brdaveb on the FTF!

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)