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The Purloined Cache Traditional Cache

Hidden : 6/29/2022
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache is hidden in plain sight and is retrievable from the sidewalk with no need to enter the cemetary. This is a very high Muggle area and Stealth is required! Please replace the cache exactly as found! BYOP and enjoy!

 

“For its practical value it depends upon this,” replied Dupin; “and the prefect and his cohort fail so frequently, first, by default of this identification, and, secondly, by ill-admeasurement, or rather through non-admeasurement, of the intellect with which they are engaged. They consider only their own ideas of ingenuity; and, in searching for anything hidden, advert only to the modes in which they would have hidden it. […] What, for example, in this case of D—, has been done to vary the principle of action? What is all this boring, and probing, and sounding, and scrutinizing with the microscope, and dividing the surface of the building into registered square inches; what is it all but an exaggeration of the application of the one principle or set of principles of search, which are based upon the one set of notions regarding human ingenuity, to which the prefect, in the long routine of his duty, has been accustomed? […] You will now understand what I meant in suggesting that, had the purloined letter been hidden anywhere within the limits of the prefect’s examination—in other words, had the principle of its concealment been comprehended within the principles of the prefect, its discovery would have been a matter altogether beyond question. […]”

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgnaq ba gur fgbez qenva pbire arkg gb Gur Cbr Ubhfr fvta naq ybbx Fbhgu. Gurer vf ab arrq gb tb orlbaq gur srapr.

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)