How Well Do You Follow Directions? # 1
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Geocachers are great at following directions right? They have to be otherwise they would never be able to find a cache.
This cache is a 200ml Sistema container, hidden in a suburban park. To find it, simply follow your GPSr to the co-ordinates as above. Once there, you should be standing at the entrance to a park. Just to your south is a green sign containing nine words/names. Next step – follow the 42 instructions as below and you will have detailed directions on how to find the cache. Simple. Of course, if you make just one slip up at any step along the way, the error will gradually multiply as you work down the page and all you will be left with is a line of gibberish.
The things to be careful for are – accidentally skipping an instruction, doing the same instruction twice, missing a letter when copying down a line, adding a letter when copying down a line, writing the wrong letter when copying down a line, transposing two letters when copying down a line, misreading an instruction, misinterpreting an instruction, miscounting an instruction, forgetting which instruction you are up to or arguing with your spouse or caching partners. Other than that, no problem. Don’t forget that after you complete every instruction, there will always be 48 letters. If there is not then something has gone awry.
If you are planning on tackling this one on the fly, I suggest you take some graph paper or the like, with the numbers 1 to 48 across the top, and the numbers 1 to 42 down the left hand side. Maybe, a thermos of coffee, a snack and your favourite CD.
The Instructions
1. Write the nine words/names from the signs in order as one long 48 letter word ignoring spaces, the "1.5km", the "1.8km" and the "/"
2. Replace all X's with W's
3. Replace all J's with T's
4. Exchange letter 3 with letter 37
5. Replace 3rd K with an E
6. Exchange both letters of the last pair of identical adjacent letters with the letter preceding them alphabetically
7. Exchange letter 25 with letter 42
8. Replace all G's with P's
9. Replace 2nd and 5th A's with E's
10. Replace the first letter of every pair of identical adjacent vowels with an H
11. Exchange the positions of the second T with the letter that is 8 places to it's right.
12. Replace the 44th letter with an O
13. Exchange letter 5 with letter 14
14. Exchange letter 30 with letter 40
15. Exchange the position of the first letter of the last pair of identical adjacent letters with the last letter of the first pair of identical adjacent consonants
16. Exchange the position of the first pair of adjacent letters that follow each other consecutively alphabetically with the first pair of identical adjacent vowels
17. Turn letter 23 upside down
18. Replace the letters on each side of the letter you just turned upside down with a T
19. Reverse the order of letters 38, 39, 40 & 41
20. Exchange letter 10 with letter 15
21. Replace the first R that has a consonant directly to its right with an A
22. Replace the first R that has a consonant directly to its right with an M
23. Replace the first R that has a consonant directly to its right with a T
24. Exchange letter 6 with letter 32
25. Letter 19 is a number in Roman Numerals. Divide it by X in Roman Numerals and replace it with that number in Roman Numerals
26. Exchange letter 18 with letter 32
27. Replace the 3rd and 4th O's with an S and T respectively
28. Replace the last consonant with an F
29. Replace every P that is still it's original position with an L
30. Exchange letter 7 with letter 26
31. Replace the C with an S and the letter to it's immediate right with an E
32. Replace any letter to the right of a W that is not a consonant with an O
33. Find a four letter word that is spelled backwards and means "fib teller". Replace this word with SINS spelled forwards.
34. Replace the two letters after the V with NY
35. Replace the 6th T with an A
36. Replace every N that is directly to the left of a T with a U
37. Replace the first letter that is still in it's original position with a W
38. Exchange each of the 4th, 6th, 10th, 13th, 15th, 18th, 21st, 23rd, 26th, 29th, 37th, 39th, 43rd and 47th letters with the letters to each of their respective immediate rights.
Due to the gradual erosion of the original hide, another four steps have been added in February 2012.
39. Exchange letters 13-14-15 with letters 23-24-25 keeping each triplet in the same order.
40. Find the first instance of the opposite of off and replace those letters with the number 4 in roman numerals.
41. Remove letters 16-17-18 and replace them with the letters that immediately follows each of them in the alphabet.
42. Move letter 17 five places to the right but in order to make the hole in which to slot the letter, move each of the five letters to the immediate right of letter 17, one space to the left.
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)