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Rochester Wins! Mystery Cache

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panandfoo: Reports are that the wooded area where we hid this has been clear-cut for disc golf, so the DNFs are probably due to the container having been removed.

It had a good run.

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Hidden : 5/26/2007
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Of course, as is usual with puzzle caches, the posted coords are utterly useless. These happen to take you to the parking lot of the Scottsville rest stop on the Thruway. We promise: that has nothing to do with anything. The final is somewhere in Monroe County.

Rochester has had a recent plague of puzzle caches. Syracuse seems to have been spared the worst of this. But why should Syracuse miss out on all the "fun"? So we've created a puzzle challenge pitting the Rochester and Syracuse caching communities against one another, and may the best solvers win!

Update 07/07/07: Looks like Syracuse did not want to play. We converted theirs to a Multi today. Rochester wins, albeit by default. And thus, the name change.

There are three FTFs up for grabs with this! One for each of the two caches we are hiding at the same time, and one First To Figure out the puzzle itself. Here's how it breaks down:

  • Be the First To Figure out the coords for both caches and email them to us. Once we get a successful solution, we will update both listings and contact the winner on how to get their prize to them. FTF prize #1: an unactivated Signal Geocoin.
    Update: The FTFigure is monkeykat! Congratulations!
  • Two First To Find prizes, one located in each cache: an unactivated pair of TB dogtags.

And of course, Bragging Rights for all FTFers!
Congratulations to monkeykat for FTFind, too!

OK, get busy!

55159 71597 37723 31597 25849 87377 23355
14455 23315 97551 59715 97377 23315 97258
49873 77233 55144 55233 15975 51597 15973
77233 15972 58498 73772 33551 44552 33159
75515 97159 73772 33159 72584 98737 72335
51445 52331 59755 15971 59737 72331 59725
84987 37723 35514 45523 31597

The final is a .50Cal loaded with trading items.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.

If you have the coords and can't figure out where to park for this, email us with the coords and we'll tell you where we parked to hide it.

Wear jeans to this final, not shorts. Wear boots or good hiking sneakers to this final, not flipflops. You have been warned.

Added May 2009: this cache is now part of Pan and Foo Present a Plethora of Perplexing Puzzles. Be sure to note the clue inside the lid of the container when you sign the log.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Nqqrq 5 Wha: Yrbaneqb Qn Cvfn. Nqqrq 12 Wha: Svsgl-svir vf anhtug.

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)