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Exempt (KPC2025) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The geocache is not hidden at the given coordinates. Solve the puzzle below to determine the coordinates of the cache.

Originally I was just trying to look up some prices and was somewhat surprised at what was readily available on a third-party web site. But there were individual privacy concerns with my first puzzle idea, perhaps a little dubious, as the information was completely public, after all, but understandably a corporation like Groundspeak wouldn't want to risk trafficking in unlicensed legal gray areas. Hopefully, this reworked version will be Exempt from any such concerns.

1393334 1523876 1633362 1545942 1462380
1627750 1677099 1631104 1644095 1627979
1620817 1465832 1389713 1453917 1452824


Special Notes about the 2025 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with Certitude. Finders will receive Top Finder points when submitting Found It logs to the cache page. All "point" scoring is arbitrary, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be announced sooner at the celebration party, which will probably happen sometime in March 2026). The real challenge is to see whether I can keep coming up with puzzles every month! To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.

Special Notes about this month's puzzle: The data can change or presumably expire; so please message me if you are failing to locate the appropriate data for any of the items. Cache was replaced and moved seven feet south on March 12th. See log or recertify for full hint. As of July 2025, I notice that the Costco website has been reworked and will no longer work for this puzzle; so you will have to find another site.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

First To Solve: oaknest (211 minutes)
First To Log: Dr. Flonase (5 hours)
Named pre-hint solvers: 28
Pre-hint finds logged: 12
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* KPC2025 Final Exam *

Additional Hints ()

[Hint added March 15th.] V jnf hfvat gur Pbfgpb jro fvgr gb purpx cevprf sbe gverf naq jnf fhecevfrq ng ubj vg ybbxrq gurz hc. Bs pbhefr, gurer ner bgure jro fvgrf bhg gurer jvgu fvzvyne qngn.

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)

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