The Black Hand Gang - The Treasure in Breezy Lake Mystery Cache
The Black Hand Gang - The Treasure in Breezy Lake
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This cache is affected by council work at the moment. However, if you solve the puzzle and use the checker you will be given the clue from this cache that contributes to the final. I will try to put something temporary in place to be found for those who wish to find and log the cache in the meantime.
The series was designed with young cachers in mind. If you have young cachers in your family, you may wish to encourage them to help solve the puzzles, as well as attend the final locations of each cache. Advice concerning the suitability of the terrain for young children can be found at the end of this cache listing or by clicking here.
Grown ups may remember that the Black Hand Society was instrumental in the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an incident that triggered World War I in 1914. This series has nothing to do with that. Young cachers can read more about that important event and the Black Hand Movement in websites like this one.
This series, rather, is inspired by a book from my childhood by Hans Jürgen Press. It was first published over fifty years ago and is now out of print. It has since been converted into a simple game you can search for on the net, which helped me reconnect with the book. I hope that by presenting this geocaching series, cachers might encourage children to become involved in reading the book, solving the simple puzzles and searching for the caches in the series. Grown ups will have to help with final calculations of cache coordinates.
 Instructions
In order to complete your tasks you will need to download the clue books for each cache, in PDF format. I have created these PDF files myself on behalf of the Black Hand Gang. The gang assure me there should be no security issue with them. However, I am required to provide the following warning from Groundspeak:
Warning: You are about to download a file that contains further details needed to find this geocache. As the cache owner, I represent that this file is safe to download although it has not been checked by Groundspeak or by the reviewer for possible malicious content. Download this file at your own risk
Once you have downloaded the PDF file, read the text on the left side of each page. Use the clues in the pictures on the right to solve the puzzle below. Some information has been redacted from the pages due to the Top Secret nature of the material you are working with.
Below is a list of words in alphabetical order. They are clues found by the Black Hand Gang in their investigation of this case.
To calculate the final location of this cache, you will need to sort the list of clues back into the order they appear in the story. Write your answers in the correct order into the table below. Next, count the number of letters in each answer and place that number in the 'No.Letters' column. Once you have completed that, add the answers together to give you the value of L. Finally, use these values to calculate the coordinates for the cache based upon the formula written below the table
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CIGARETTES
DEEP POCKETS LONG FINGERS
DUFFEL BAG
JAR
LETTER BOX
PENDULUM CLOCK
PORTRAIT
PUMPING TYRE
SIX
TAPE RECORDER
TRAP DOOR
Terrain Suitability for ChildrenI have rated this cache 1½ terrain. It is a few metres off a well used bush track. The terrain is basically flat but uneven. Children should have no trouble at this location.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Fghzc, prager bs gerr, haqre ebpx