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Better than Bradman Mystery Cache

Hidden : 6/25/2026
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The mono-alphabetic substitution cipher (MASC) is easily broken. Websites such as quipqiup will do it for you. So what can be done to strengthen a MASC? I thought of three things. They are present in the ciphertext below.
Here is some information to give you a fighting chance:
The plaintext is in English. That is, no foreign words are in the plaintext.
I have left the spaces in there. The spaces in the ciphertext are the same as in the spaces in the plaintext. That is, spaces represent true word boundaries.
The plaintext and the title of this cache go together. I wanted to focus on a particular person who, in my opinion, is better than Bradman.
The three things that I have done to the plaintext have been applied consistently. These three things are not too crazy.
The answer for Certitude is not a set of coordinates. The answer is a string of letters.

WTGPQPT VDLMLIR DGHBITTRVLBJR JIGNKBW HCI VDLALIR SGPEFO DUDQC JVWUKGVW VDZOZGMK KGNVC WTMGJK BWEM SKIYHGHI VDRPBVR ZQNJF VWFK OQEEHQC DWDG DPDQC LMB KEBJ TVORGH JVXGRDGR KTNJIL LYLQDL VWUK KBFJ JVZLJB WTUBK DGFIKVYCGWRDG RGJKERGDF HNI VDLWLGM KTXID


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Enaqbzyl thrffvat gur anzrf bs pevpxrgref vf abg gur cngu gb fhpprff. TM: Hc. Gur svefg fgrc vf gur uneqrfg.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)