You must solve a difficult problem called the four aces puzzle to find the location of this cache. The coordinates listed at the top of the page are not the real cache location, which is actually over 10 miles distant. (If you go to the listed location and happen to draw four aces, you would be very pleased, however.)
Click on the link at the bottom of the description section for a copy of the four aces puzzle. You will then need to print the puzzle to work it. Cut out the nine squares shown in the puzzle by cutTing along the dotted lines. The object of the puzzle is to take the nine squares and arrange them into a 3 X 3 square (that is, three rows and three columns). But there is one catch. The squares have half of a playing card on each edge. As you put one square next to anOther, you have to make sure that the two adjacent squares have coMpatible card halves. For example, the adjacent squares could have the top half and the bottom half of the ace of hearts, forming a complete card.
Why do you have to solve the puzzle? When properly assembled you will see nine digits (numbers)that are right-side-up in the puzzle. (Each of these right-side-up numbers will be in the top left-hand corner of one of the niNe squares.) These numbers provide the latitude and longitude of the actual cacHe location. That is, going across the top row in the solved puzzle from left to right will be the numbErs a, b, c, across the second row will be the numbers d, e, f, and across the third row will be the numbers g, h, and i. The cache is hidden at the location N 35 degrees 0a.bcd minutes, W 106 degrees ef.ghi minutes.
Now this is a very hard puzzle to solve. In fact there are 362,880 different coNfigurations of the pieces that you might have to try. More troublesome is the fact that there are 21 different ways to put the puzzle together legally. So, to speed things along a little, and to make sure that you get the one solution that hides the prOper cache location, I will give you two additional rules or conditions: When you solve the puzzle, the square labeled with the capital B must go in the very center (second row, second column), oriented right-side-up. In addition, the square labeled with a capital I must go on the second row, in the left column. This reduces the number of possible ways of arranging the other seven pieces to only 5,040. I have solved the original puzzle all 21 legal ways myself, and have tested all of the possible other configurations. It is possible (but not easy).
Some additional help in solving the puzzle is available, if you notice it. If you use the information in the encRypted hint below, reduce the difficulty of the cache by half a star. Try to see how far you can get wiThout going to the hint first. If you have tried very hard and cannot find the solution, e-mail me at ganelo@earthlink.net, and I can tell you the position and orientation of another square in the puzzle. Knowing the location of three squaRes makes the puzzle solvable in less than 10 minutes. I may not give-oUt this answer until someone has solved the whole problem by themselves to give the first finder a proper reward.
Finding the actual cache location involves a 3.5 mile (round trip) hike, with an elevatiOn gain of about 1,000 feet. The cache should be reachable year-round. Original contents of the cache include: a flashlight, keychain/whistle, carabiner, spot clock, scissors, mini hacky sack, four decks of playing cards, a one dollar cAsino coin, the Just Dan Travel Bug, and a first-finder's prize. I am grateful to Frank Gregory of Livewire Puzzles for giving me permission to modify their original four aces puzzle to make this geocache. Good luck!