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This is your brain on puzzles. Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/22/2009
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the posted coords. You must first solve the puzzle. Stealth required. Log only, BYOP.

How does the puzzle obsession begin? It begins innocently enough, playing hangman with Grandma while waiting for dinner to be ready, helping Dad with the Times Crossword puzzle on a lazy Sunday afternoon. You love to play Risk with your friends and secretly spend all night playing solitaire with a flashlight under the bedcovers. You save cereal boxtops for months to send away for the Captain Crusader decoder ring. You take turns with your little brother writing each other notes in code using invisible ink. You never mind having to help him decode your gibberish.
When you grow up and have kids, your son wants to know who broke his "Simon" game and what happened to the button on his N64 controller. Whose name did those mystery initials on the tetris high score board belong to, your daughter wants to know. That must have taken them hours to get a score that high, she exclaims!
Before you know it you are doing Sudoku at red lights and reading "Cryptonomicon" for fun before bed. You know Morse code frontwards and backwards by ear and sight. You can translate ROT-13 in your sleep while dreaming of winning a gold medal at the geo-olympics. Tic tac toe grids look like pigpens. Hours go by like minutes while you solve the newest mystery cache, the bags under your eyes holding all the secrets of the ITP series. Your partner does not so much as flinch as you don rain gear and headlamp, leaving in the middle of the night to drive the 75 miles round trip just to see if you are right. She helps you pick up the pages of your 4 inch thick "solved, I think" puzzle notebook as they scatter while you are running out the door, in case you have time to find more than one.
Well I have a puzzle for you and good luck, because you see, it may make no sense to anyone but me, but this is my brain on puzzles.


DDACCDDCCAAEFAFA FVDDEDE
VFFKDKDJJVKJKK AVEA
QQJACQJQCAEAQKV EAEEAVE
VVE EEQEAVQVFQFEAQVA

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gnxr vg ng snpr inyhr bayl

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)