Puzzlers Lesson 14: More Substitutions Mystery Cache

Cache is not at the posted coordinates

Introduction

This is the fourteenth in my series of caches meant to teach people some ways to solve puzzle caches. Please read the information above the line in Puzzlers Lesson 1: Alphabets.

This lesson belongs with the second and third lessons. However, since I didn't put it there, I will put it here.

Map Tips

I saw this geocache on how to use maps to help solve geocaching puzzles. I thought of doing something like it, but I could not do anything approaching Map Tricks. Please enjoy this as a bonus lesson, and remember it because I may do something for which this lesson will help.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled Puzzlers Lesson.

Atbash

"Atbash (Hebrew: אתבש; also transliterated Atbaš) is a monoalphabetic substitution cipher originally used to encrypt the Hebrew alphabet. It can be modified for use with any known writing system with a standard collating order." (from Wikipedia)

In the Atbash cipher the order of the writing system (alphabet in our case) is reversed. So, A=Z, B=Y, C=X, etc. The alphabet could even be shifted as well.

The first row of this table is the English alphabet. The second row is the Atbash version. The third row is the Atbash alphabet shifted 13 places, like ROT-13 shift used to encode geocaching hints.

Alternate Phone Keypad Layouts

In Puzzlers Lesson 2: More With Alphabets I used the ITU E.161 telephone keypad, with a modification. However, there are some other mappings from Latin letters to numbers that have been used on telephones.

If you do find any other phone keypad layouts for Latin letters, please let me know and I will add them here.

Alternate Computer Keyboard Layouts

Also in the Puzzlers Lesson ​2: More With Alphabets I explained how to get numbers from the letters on a computer keyboard. It was the common QWERTY keyboard that I used. However, there are other keyboard layouts that you can use. There are ways that you can make a custom keyboard layout on your computer.

However, for this lesson I will be using the Dvorak keyboard layout. It was created so that typists could (theoretically) type faster, but it has not overtaken the QWERTY layout in usage.

Example

The puzzle will require examining alternatives for decoding of the above methods. So I don't make this more difficult than I could, I am going to give you an example using the Mobile 1 keypad layout. The number given as the example will be at the top and the alternatives will be given below that. The correct alternative is given in bold in this example.

Puzzle

Now, the puzzle is to use the techniques above to figure out the coordinates to this cache. I will not tell you which of the above methods I am using for each line, but the same is used for the whole line. Also, remember what has been taught in previous lessons.

92987629852933577833965
RITFEVTOYZIQIUTYZITQIBR
30370344488908447890639

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Congratulations to Dix1, del2u and Oreoshakers for being the first local cachers to solve this puzzle and also the first to find this cache.