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Foul Ball or Gutter Ball Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/4/2025
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:


Back in October last year I attended Geo Toroa, New Zealand's 2024 Mega geocaching event. While I was there, I met some new friends who gave me a gift. The gift was yummy, but it came in a geocache container that I felt I should return to them. I thought that was a nice thing to do. So, I did, I returned it to Invercargill for them to find:

After that, I was pelted with geocaches from the deep south:

The onslaught could not go unanswered, and so in response:

With the score in this back-and-forth game tied, a Christmas cease-fire was called. The two sides met to discuss terms and resolve the conflict. During the weeks of these negotiations, it was revealed that there were spies from both sides deeply entrenched in each other's islands, and that double (perhaps triple) agents were at play. It was suspected that one such agency may have even gone rogue and was exploiting both sides to further their own agenda. A plan was developed to draw them out into the open.

This is a puzzle cache. You will not find the cache at the published coordinates. Please do not go there. You might get run over by a train.

The geocache location can be determined by what is below:

BLUE
9
/
8
/
9
/
8
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9
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9
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9
/
8
/
9
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8
/
9
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PINK
2
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2
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2
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2
/
2
/
4
/
2
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2
/
2
/
2
/
2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SOUTH
-4 * BLUE
EAST
-4 * PINK
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Please:
  • Bring your own pen to sign and date the log book.
  • Be mindful of non-geocaching onlookers.
  • Leave the area better than how you found it.
  • See Geocaching Etiquette for more information.

Note: Calculating the location of this geocache is not the only challenge here. You cannot claim this geocache as found until you have written your name, and the date, on the log paper. You will know when you have found the log, because on the front of it is written: Foul Ball. Please take the time (you will need plenty of it) and care to return everything you find to where, and how, you find it.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Svefg svaq oyhr, gura svaq cvax.

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)