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Puzzle Box #18- I'm Sleeping on the Couch Tonight Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/31/2024
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


My partner and I are avid Scabblers and often play together after dinner. Despite being relatively evenly matched, our last definitely broke that tradition. My partner was simply kicking my butt. After opening the game with the bingo WASHING (which she later extended to RAINWASHING) I
knew I was in for a rough game. She bingoed later by turning my TIN into JACULATING, extending my play of GATOR into VARIEGATOR, hooked my PA into PACIFYING, and even bingoed again with WAKENERS. All the while I found myself playing tiny words like EKE, UM, HEN, and LID
just trying to stay alive. After 30 minutes of this suffering I was down 586- 102. Not my best showing. crying

As the game came to a merciful conclusion I sat with a terrible rack of ABEPXZO and my elated partner had only the Q which she was going to play her next turn for QI going out for the game. I was dejected, but thought to myself, "I need to at least dump some of these tiles so she doesn't add insult to injury." So I thought for a moment and saw a few good plays to dump the Z and X...

AND THEN I SAW IT.

I SAW THE PLAY.

THE PLAY.

As my fingers shook and my body trembled I slowly laid down my tiles. My partner saw THE PLAY and was justifiably skeptical, but after checking the Scrabble dictionary online, it indeed, was valid. I ended up winning the game 1896-576 and I've been sleeping on the couch ever since.

If you can see it below you can find this cache as well, (which is a much easier task- it's an LPC). When you spot THE PLAY type it into the checker below and you'll be granted the coordinates.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

CHMMYR: Obgu oynax gvyrf ner Af. PURPXRE: Nyy pncf.

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)