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KGCoJ #5 - Mission: binär Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/30/2025
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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KGCoJ - das steht für "Kein GC ohne Jena", denn in Jena, als Stadt der Wissenschaften, sind viele Dinge, ohne die Geocaching nicht möglich oder nur halb so lustig wäre, erfunden oder erdacht worden. Daran soll diese kleine Reihe erinnern.

Mit gerade einmal 17 Jahren kam Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz zum Studieren nach Jena. Die Inhalte der Vorlesungen an der dortigen Universität und das hiesige studentische Leben formten in seinem Kopf eine Idee, die später nicht nur die Welt und das Leben im Allgemeinen revolutionieren sollte, sondern ohne die Geocaching in der heutigen Form wohl überhaupt nicht möglich wäre. Zum Gedenken an diesen großen Geist hängt in dem Gebäude an den Ausgangskoordinaten sogar eine Tafel, die an ihn erinnert (ein Geocache ist an diesen Ausgangskoordinaten allerdings natürlich nicht zu finden).

Ein direktes Resultat seiner Überlegungen ist heute noch in Jena zu finden, es wirkt schon fast wie ein LP. Dort ist auch ein Logbuch zu finden.

Leibniz and the Holy Bingo

A short, but not very true story

 

CAST:

LEIBNIZ – earnest, overdramatic philosophy student

KARL – his unimpressed friend

KELLY - secret admirer of Leibniz, always sighing

BINGO CALLER – booming and oblivious

BARTENDER – perpetually annoyed since half a century

VARIOUS STUDENTS – drinkers, hecklers, occasional philosophers

[INT. JENA TAVERN – NIGHT]

A smoky, rowdy tavern. Students are drinking, laughing, and shouting numbers. Leibniz sits at a table with a quill, looking very serious for someone surrounded by ale and sausage.

BINGO CALLER: (shouting) Number seventeen! Se-ven-teen!

KELLY: (sighs)

KARL: (marking his card) Ha! Got it! Come on, Gottfried, keep up!

LEIBNIZ: (frowning) This system is terribly inefficient. So many numbers… so much disorder. How can this keep a man alive?

KARL:  A Man alive? It’s Bingo, not the meaning of life. Please keep quite and obey your doctor´s orders!

LEIBNIZ: (ignoring him) Suppose—just suppose—we required only two symbols… yes and no, one and zero, existence and nothingness! Wow, what an idea, who could ask for more?!

KELLY: (looks secretely at Leibniz and sighs)

BINGO CALLER: (shouting) Number two!

LEIBNIZ: (standing suddenly) TWO! Exactly! The universe reveals itself!

KARL: (sighs) Oh, here we go. Hey Leibniz, can you feel Kelly´s eye on you?

LEIBNIZ: Kelly´s eye? I don ´t  care about it. Don’t you see? If every number, every thought, every concept could be reduced to two states—

(on a roll now) —then I could build a universal language!

BINGO CALLER: (deadpan) Number forty-six.

BARTENDER: (leaning over the counter) You winning, Herr Leibniz?

LEIBNIZ: Winning? My good man, I am transcending!

BARTENDER: (to Karl) Is he drunk or just German?

KARL: Bit of both.

LEIBNIZ: (standing on the table, arms outstretched) Henceforth, there shall be only ones and zeros! From these two springs shall flow the rivers of logic, reason, and—

BINGO CALLER: (interrupts) Number one!

LEIBNIZ: (ecstatic) YES! ONE! The divine digit!

The students stare. One slowly claps. Another throws a pretzel and a cup of tea. Kelly sighs.

BINGO CALLER: (muttering) We really should have stuck to cards.

BARTENDER: (pouring a beer) If this binary thing ever catches on, I’ll eat my apron and call the thing a PC.

[CUT TO: 300 YEARS LATER]

A modern computer lab. A technician presses a button. He was halfway there. The machine hums to life.

COMPUTER VOICE: (calmly) Bingo.

[ROLL CREDITS]

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Svany: uvre fbyygr zna cnffraq mhe Gurzngvx Pbbxvrf refgzny mhynffra. Mhz Ybttra qnes zna qnaa Pbbxvrf nore avpug zrue mh ynffra.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)