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Leonardo da Vinci? Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/31/2009
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is NOT at the published coordinates.

Some little known facts about our Leonardo:-

Leonardo was born in Italy around 1170. His mother died when he was nine years old. As a young boy, Leonardo traveled with his father to North Africa. This is where he learned about the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. He returned to Italy around 1200 and in 1202 he published what he had learned and thereby introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe. He died around 1250. In the 19th century, a statue of him was constructed and erected in Pisa.

 

Now see what you can find in this sequence below, letter your finds as A=, B=, C=, D=, etc. in the order you'll know they need to be in. For example, if you think the 14th number in the sequence below is your first answer then you would write 5 under the letter A in the table and so on.

 

8 2 3 4 7 5 9 4 1 9 0 2 9 5 6 3 2 1 7 1
5 8 1 5 2 1 2 1 6 7 6 2 8 3 5 4 8 5 7 3
3 1 0 8 7 5 1 9 7 6 9 0 4 5 0 1 7 5 7 4
1 3 4 5 2 0 7 3 7 5 0 6 3 9 5 5 9 8 6 2
6 7 9 8 4 7 4 6 5 2 3 2 1 9 3 9 4 4 1 8
9 0 4 8 8 0 0 5 9 0 2 7 7 8 1 1 0 3 6 6
9 7 4 1 2 8 9 9 2 2 5 0 7 2 5 5 2 4 5 6
3 8 7 1 2 4 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 7 8 5 0 5 0
8 7 4 9 9 1 9 1 4 8 7 8 4 7 9 4 1 7 2 9
4 2 5 7 1 0 5 5 2 5 1 8 0 0 3 2 4 6 0 6
9 7 7 1 6 7 6 1 0 8 8 2 7 7 4 4 1 7 2 6
1 1 8 2 7 9 1 0 6 7 9 6 1 1 3 2 2 9 1 3
1 9 3 5 5 2 2 3 1 1 7 3 2 3 0 1 7 6 5 2

 

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
                         
                         

substitute your findings into this

N = HL CK.EIA

W = J FD.MGB

 

You are looking for a small tupperware container which contains:-

Log and Pencil

Disposable camera

Northern Ireland Geocoin (FTF please feel free to nab this, same goes for followers if FTF doesnt take it.)

 

Until the camera is full and I remove it there is virtually no room for anything else in the box

 

 

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

 

Happy Hunting

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[puzzle] V fgneg jvgu bar abg mreb [cache] 2aq ynetrfg ebbgonyy bs n snyyra gerr

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)