OIAL 095: House and you Mystery Cache
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The Once In A Lifetime Series continues in West Sacramento, CA USA!
The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. I have gotten into the habit of tackling several daily puzzles. One of them is called Strands. In Strands, you find theme words to fill the board; a theme word's next letter is always adjacent to the current letter and can be left, right, up, down, or diagonal from it. No theme words overlap. One of the theme words, a "spangram," describes the puzzle's theme and touches two opposite sides of the board. In the puzzle below, one theme word is a closed compound word where geocaches are often found.
When you have solved the puzzle, you will have the spangram theme word and seven other theme words. Put these eight words in alphabetical order and take the first two letters of each. For example, if GRACE and ROLL were among the theme words, you would take GR and RO. (By the way, neither GRACE nor ROLL is a theme word.) That 16-letter "keyword" will unlock the checker.
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gur chmmyr'f gvgyr, "Trg guebhtu guvf naq trg bire vg!" vf nyfb eryngrq gb gur chmmyr'f gurzr.