Who: NoVAGO
What: Puzzle Class
When: Saturday, January 10th 2026, 10AM - 1PM.
Where: Cascades Library
Specifically: Meeting Room A
Having trouble with puzzle caches? There are a lot of them out there. These pesky little devils seem to get filed in one of two places by most cachers. There are them that loves 'em and them that hates 'em. If you are in the latter category (or in the former and just want to practice), this may be the event for you.
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This event will be geared toward beginning puzzlers. For today we mostly want to get folks started. We welcome more advanced folks but don't want you to be bored.
Feel free to bring along some of the real-life puzzles that have been bothering you all along. I cannot guarantee that you will get them solved, but based on what you should be learning here, it can't hurt. And there could easily be someone attending who can help you on that particular one.
Really Important stuff:
This will be a paperless event (OK, other than the log). You may need some sort of laptop (PC, MAC or Linux) that can read info from a thumb drive and display pdf files and/or Powerpoint (or OpenOffice) presentations. I will bring a thumb drive with all of the information you need that will be available after the class. Or you can get very friendly with the folks sitting near you. Your call entirely. Having a small pad of scratch paper might be useful, but that all depends on your learning style.
There is free wifi at the library if you need it. I will also bring some homegrown tools that people might find useful. Having a perl interpreter would be a big help but not required. And I will accept other tools if folks have them and want to contribute.
As for where specifically this event is going to be, keep in mind that it is a puzzle event. So it needs to be a puzzle. The location is given in at least ten (10) places on the page. There might be more. Some will be obvious, some less so. But all are reasonable beginner puzzles. If something needs a key to be decrypted, use "NoVAGO Puzzle Class". And if you really cannot figure out any of them, please just send me a private message and we can walk you through them.
1. N39 01.998, W077 23.687 white text on white background
2. poncgrtm khmvccy lob cie fsgi sgcig kejg jvdtlwtfc oweep pglbavc loafr ul vigenere
3. xzhxzwvh oryizib gdl lmv avil gsivv avil dsrgurvow kozxv klglnzx uzooh ez atbash
4. pnfpnqrf yvoenel gjb bar mreb guerr mreb juvgsvryq cynpr cbgbznp snyyf in rot-something
5. dn bs lm uf um cw nx rw tv vo pl py uo rn ly pl py vt ik ys qu dm ue nd pu uo ai nd dg da ud AG playfair
6. limes.melon.shells what three words
7. S39 01.998 E102 36.313 is about as far away as you can be. antipodes
8. The motto of Unseen University is "Nunc est videm. Nunc non videm." This is a red herring.
If anyone wants copies of the presentation and other background information, send me a PM AFTER the event. Include your email so I can attach the presentation. I also plan on posting a zip file on the NoVAGO web site and if I can figure out how to the Discord server.