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Parley's Trail Mysteries - Hungarian Banknotes Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/6/2025
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Parley's Trail Mysteries - Hungarian Banknotes

The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.

This is not a field puzzle. This is a winter mystery cache to be solved from the (geo)rocking chair at the fireplace with the purring geocat on your lap. 

There are six pictures of old Hungarian banknotes (ABCDEG) and there are ten possible facts about them. You should pair the six banknotes with six correct facts and you have the final coordinates. (The other four facts may be correct too but they are not related to these banknotes.) Sometimes the answer is on the other side of the banknotes and sometimes it is in the text on them. 

N 40° 43.ABC′ W 111° 51.DEG′

(Yes, I forgot the F and used the letter G. Sorry.)

A.

B

C

D

E

G

 

0 - I display Saint Stephen, the first king of Hungary. During the wild years of kleptocracy following the fall of Socialism if you wanted to bribe a low level government bureaucrat you should have asked that person: "Is it helpful if I pray to Saint Stephen?" If the answer was yes a St Stephen banknote was exchanged and the problem was solved. Sometimes the answer was "You need to pray a lot more..."

1 - If you write me down with numbers I will have 20 zeros.

2 - I was called the Grand Watermelon.

3 - I'm the only Hungarian banknote displaying a female politician.

4 - When I was printed I had the oldest and newest bridges of Budapest.

5 - I was printed by the Soviet army. 

6 - I was called the "Big Wired Brown Thing" because I was the first Hungarian banknote with a security thread.

7 - I speak six languages.

9 - I have an almost completely naked man on my back. 

9 - I display the "Two tree island" , a small island of the Danube.

 

The cache is a small container. It has a Hungarian banknote for FTF. Please don't take the silica thingie, it helps to keep the log dry(er).

UPDATE: After some consultation I upped the difficulty rating to 3.

UPDATE: Thanks to Petersog for finding an excess 0. It's "only" 20 and not 21  

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh pna svaq zr jvgu n qbt be jvgubhg n qbt.

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)