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I'll Just Tell You The Answer Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/9/2011
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Cache not coordinates... blah blah blah... you know how it goes.

There are so many puzzles out there where you have to figure out what to do, and then do it. There's so much room to be wrong, and not enough room for creativity.

This puzzle is different. I'm going to tell you exactly what I did, and all you can come up with your own creative way to reverse it.

Here's what I did.

I took the coordinates an image, and split it up into separate frames of 25x25 pixels, which makes up an animated gif. Here's an example.

There are 18 squares of 25x25 pixels. The squares are read left to right, and then left to right on the next line. Each of these is a frame. See if you can see how the image relates to the below animated gif.

Now here's the same encoding method, but encoding a picture with the number 3.

As you can see, the 3 is made out of 25x25 squares of pixels, which just like in the last few examples, are read in order as a gif.

Now for the puzzle. I will give you the animated gif, and you just need to construct the original picture that created it.

The final image should be 775 pixels wide and 300 pixels tall, or 775x300. That's 31 columns and 12 rows of 25x25 pixel squares.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Puzzle Spoiler: 2.5 Stars: Please do not use this hint unless you have given up on finding a tool. Also, please do not use unless you completely understand what is going on on the cache page. uggc://jjj.obggbznc.pbz/Fbsgjner/N4O/N4O.ugzy] [cache: Magnetic. The coordinates in Google Maps (Or Boutler's GPS Converter and Grapher) are dead on. Behind the old electrical box.]

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)