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WTF? (KPC2010) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is not located at the posted coordinates. To find the cache coordinates, solve the puzzle below.

                           

Special Notes about the 2010 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with certitude. Because certitude may not properly account for joint solutions, please email me team member names in the case of team solutions to ensure proper point accounting. All "point" scoring is arbitrary anyway, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want your name announced more prominently at the December banquet). The real challenge is just to see whether you can solve all of these caches by the end of the year. To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.

Special Notes about this month's puzzle: WTF? Why is this cache so far away? Well, Moe311 was the first to solve last month's challenge; so I decided I would go to the Walnut Creek area to hide a cache. Sorry, that's as far north as I wanted to go. Nowadays, it seems like there are a lot of puzzles where I just don't know WTF I need to do in order to solve them. This might be another one of that type of puzzle. Cache is a small jar. At least the style of hide should be straightforward. There are TB tags for the FTF (courtesy of cachbefound's Word List). Sept. 4th: Dropped the difficulty rating from 3.5 to 3, as it seems that pretty much everybody who looks at this is able to solve it (though some may have trouble figuring out how to get to it). Thanks to Adium for unwittingly providing me the puzzle idea.

2010 Puzzle Challenge Solvers
2010 Puzzle Challenge Finders

First Ten Correct Solutions
candcfamily 01 Sep 12:07am
jimbexleyspeed 01 Sep 12:07am
fizzymagic 01 Sep 12:14am
The North Star 01 Sep 12:18am
payakoi 01 Sep 12:18am
mokelly 01 Sep 12:20am
Chrysalides 01 Sep 12:22am
Gitonyerhorse 01 Sep 12:52am
Dotish 01 Sep 3:38am
Moe311 01 Sep 6:20am
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First Ten Visits
candcfamily 01 Sep
The North Star 01 Sep
fizzymagic, Alamogul, and jellis 01 Sep
Gitonyerhorse 01 Sep
Moe311 01 Sep
Dotish 03 Sep
payakoi 05 Sep
Geo Fan and Mrs. Geo Fan 06 Sep
Chrysalides 10 Sep
jimbexleyspeed 11 Sep
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hints added September 15th] Qrgrezvar gur glcrsnpr bs rnpu bs gur svsgrra jbeqf. Jung qbrf "JGS?" fgnaq sbe? (Vg'f abg n fjrne jbeq.)

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)