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The Light Fantastic Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/15/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Another in a series of caches which have some sort of connection with the "Discworld" novels of Terry Pratchett.

In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...
Rincewind, his companion Twoflower the naive tourist, and Twoflower's aggressive luggage (a sapient pearwood box that trots around on hundreds of tiny legs), now find themselves safe back on the Disc--thanks to the Octavo, the highly magical repository of the Eight Great Spells. One of the spells has taken up residence in Rincewind's head (""The spell wasn't a demanding lodger. It just sat there like an old toad at the bottom of a pond""), and so most of the Disc's wizards are chasing after Rincewind to try and get the spell back. The rest is riotously impossible to summarize but includes warrior princesses, Cohen the Barbarian, trolls, demons, Death, Druids, false teeth, argumentative spells, flying rocks, and talking trees.

The cache is not located at the above co-ordinates, but can be found within a mile of them.

The true cache Northings are given by A
The true cache Westings are given by B

Where C divided by A = 59.33007927
and C divided by B = 5146.828355

A correct solution of the puzzle will give you a checksum (total of all 15 digits) equal to 62

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[For the puzzle] Ab pyhr lrg [For the cache] Oruvaq 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)