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Limerick Cache Multi-Cache

This cache has been archived.

The Mole Rats: We are taking this cache out of service for at least the Winter.  If conditions around the cache area improve we may reopen this cache next spring.

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Hidden : 6/26/2003
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Fair warning for cachers with flair
There's one thing which you should beware
When logging your find
Do it in rhyme
Start thinking now to prepare


At the listed location you will be standing in front of a door. You do not need to enter the building to find the cache, but it's fun to look inside at the wonderful mosaic/map on the floor (only open Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM...or look through the window).

There are several large words carved in stone over the door. The final cache is at N42 22.xxx and W71 08.yyy, where:

To get xxx:

  1. Pick a number between 1-9 (inclusive)
  2. Multiply your number by the number of letters in the first word in the phrase over the door
  3. Using the result from step #2, add the tens digit and the ones digit to get a new number (i.e., If your answer from step 2 was 38 then your answer would be 3 + 8 giving you 11)
  4. Divide your answer from #3 by the total number of words over the door
  5. Multiply the result by 281

To get yyy:

  1. Add the number of letters in the last two words (spaces don’t count)
  2. Subtract the total number of words over the door
  3. Multiple the result by 106

The parking entrance is at N42 23.021, W71 08.580. Technically, you can't park there unless you have a Cambridge parking sticker, but it's probably ok for a short time. After seeing the words over the door, you could walk to the cache site or drive up the hill and park near N42 22.900, W071 8.702, which is the closer to the final cache.

There seems to be some GPS interference just prior to the final cache site, so make sure your GPS settles down before you look for the final location.

Special, personalized, items have been left for key cachers in the area.

To clarify the verse above
Yes, it's rhyming that we love
But to do the rhyming right
Use the log book at the site

Your postings here upon this page
Need not fit our rhyming ways
To make sure you don't over edit
Rhyming here is extra credit

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Frrx gur gvrf gb svaq.

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)