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Dirty Dancing??? Mystery Cache

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charliewhiskey: Going to let this one go. Thank you to all who found it, and for the Favorites point!

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2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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More and more these days I've been longing for puzzles that are fun and clever and not seemingly in a contest to win a "Most Obfuscated" award. So in hopes of inspiring others, I offer this fun puzzle.

It had been a long, hard week and I needed a drink, so I went to my favorite pub to let the music and ale chase my work-week stresses away. The band was rockin' - too loud for conversation - and the pub was packed with people. One man stood out. He turned my way and our eyes locked. I could almost feel the heat from his gaze as he did this "dance".

He seemed to be trying to convey his inner most thoughts and deepest needs, using nothing more than the flexibility of his physique and the rough pliability of his trouser cloth. I've never before seen a sight more moving than this man and his three square yards of carefully tailored cavalry twill moving in perfect harmony. What is it? Some type of code? Some sort of trouser semaphore? What's he trying to say?

Checksum: N = 23; W = 22

Something fun but completely unrelated to this puzzle: Someone tried using this code to see if Christopher Walken is sending a message in Fatboy Slim's Grammy-winning video "Weapon of Choice" (see Related Webpage link above). It looks like Christopher's message starts out "AHTEW SNYT WOOP". What do you think? Or, better yet, forget about the message and just enjoy Walken's entertaining performance, which he helped choreograph.

Thank you Champ 2.0, AlohaCrazy5, LA777, korsmofamily, and wife/mom of AlohaCrazy5 and LA777 for this hilariously fitting demonstration of this useful code!

* Thank You also to "The Chap Magazine" and "Between 0 and 1" websites - I pilfered this from them.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[puzzle 1] Bar fbhepr unf n glcb. Fhofgvghgr gur zvffvat yrggre sbe gur qhcyvpngrq bar. [puzzle 2] Va gur ahzoref, yrggre B = mreb [puzzle 3 - spoiler] V fnl gur pbqr'f anzr - frnepu Tbbtyr. [cache] Ovt prqne gb gur rnfg, svir srrg hc, oruvaq gehax

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)