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Amaretto Day with Coffee 🌰☕🥃 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/19/2025
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Amaretto Day

With Coffee 

☕🌰🥃☕🌰🥃☕🌰🥃☕🌰🥃☕🌰🥃☕🌰🥃

 

The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.  Solve the puzzle below and enter your answer into Certitude to get the final coordinates.

 

 

National Amaretto Day is celebrated on April 19 and is dedicated to one of the most popular Italian liqueurs - amaretto. This day is celebrated by lovers of this drink and connoisseurs of its unique taste, which combines sweet and bitter notes.

 

History of Amaretto

Amaretto (from the Italian "amaro" - "bitter") is a liqueur obtained from apricot kernels, almonds or other nuts. It has a sweet taste with a characteristic bitterness and aroma of nuts. It is based on distilled alcohol, which is then mixed with sugar and extracts, creating a rich and recognizable taste.

 

Origin. Legend has it that amaretto was invented in Italy in 1525, when the artist Raphael asked a local woman called Lucrezia to make a drink for his aging master. He asked her to make a drink that would be "bitter but sweet," and amaretto was born.

 

Amaretto and coffee is an Italian-inspired drink that combines hot coffee with amaretto liqueur, often topped with whipped cream. The almond-flavored amaretto balances the coffee's bitterness with sweetness and hints of apricot and toasted almond. It can be enjoyed as an after-dinner drink, dessert, or winter cocktail. 

 

 

The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.  Solve the puzzle below and enter your answer into Certitude to get the final coordinates.

 

SOLVE 👇🏻

 

A Shot of Amaretto

In the corner of a cozy, dim-lit café, you discover an old recipe journal titled:

 

“Secrets of the Amaretto Underground”

 

Tucked inside are handwritten recipes, strange caffeine notes, and a final line:

 

"Find the blend, find the cache."

 

Step 1: The Amaretto Formula

One cocktail recipe reads:

 

“To craft the perfect Amaretto-Coffee blend, mix:”

 

3 parts Coffee

1 part Amaretto

3 parts Cream

0.5 parts Simple Syrup

0.5 parts Ice

 

The finished drink is 240 ml.

 

Solve for North:

 

A = Number of parts of Coffee

B = Number of parts of Amaretto

C = Cream in ml ÷ 10 = #

Then √#

D = Simple Syrup in ml ÷ 3

E = Number of letters in the word “Latte”

 

Step 2: The Coffee Cipher

 

On a napkin near the espresso machine is a note:

 

"Only the boldest brews will lead you home."

 

A list of drinks is scribbled underneath:

 

Espresso – 64 mg caffeine 

Cold Brew – 155 mg caffeine 

Mocha – 145 mg caffeine 

Latte – 95 mg caffeine 

 

Solve for West:

 

F = Number of drinks listed multiplied by zero.

G= Number of drinks with over 100 mg of caffeine

H = Number of letters in “Coffee” minus 1

J = Number of letters in “Cream”

K = Number of letters in “Amaretto” plus 1

 

Final Coordinates Formula:

N40° AB.CDE W105° FG.HJK

 
 
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
 
 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gbgny cnegf = 8

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)