Blackbox Mystery Cache
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This is a three part multi. It is a mostly flat walk of roughly a mile in total. The final is a large ammo can small lockable container.
The listed coordinates are meaningless. Once you solve for the first waypoint and check your answer, you'll get parking information.
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Blackbox was a game invented in the early 1970s by Eric Solomon. (He got his inspiration for the game from Godfrey Hounsfield, the British researcher who invented the CAT scanner.) The game consists of sending "beams" into a square box via any of the 8 "ports" on each side. One of three things can happen to the "beams". They can:
- strike an "atom" directly and be absorbed
- glance off one or more atoms and be reflected back
- come out another port, possibly being reflected along the way
The objective is to deduce the locations of the atoms by the behavior of the beams.
You can try playing the game here. Note that on this website, the atoms are referred to as "balls".
If the above website is down or you want a further explanation, here is the wikipedia web page for the game.
To solve the puzzle, you'll have to find the atoms contained in two blackboxes based on the clues shown below.
The cache is located at:
N42 ab.cde W77 vw.xyz
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Congratulations to Nan-Sea, Hale-Storm, and SilverFox for their collective first-to-find!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
JC1: Jurer jnf gur zbarl uvqqra va "Vg'f n Znq, Znq, Znq, Znq Jbeyq"?