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A Musician's Paddle Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/1/2013
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Befriend a musician to help solve this puzzle and perhaps invite them along to enjoy the paddle to the final.


Cache is not at the posted coordinates (seeing as how they're in the middle of the lake and all).  Cache is here:

N 43    3H.DFG
W079  2L.TBA

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H=What date was this piece first performed?  Add the second digit in the day to the digit that corresponds to the month.

D=This piece was written to commemorate the death of how many people?

F=How many movements are in this piece? That number plus 2.

G=How many letters are in the last name of this composer?

L=What does the word in this excerpt mean?  Take the first letter of the more common word with the same meaning.  This letter's placement in the alphabet is the digit you need.

T=What does this word mean?  How many times can this happen to a person?

B=How many letters are in the longest word from this excerpt?  Minus 7.

A=What is the name of the movement that this duet comes from?  Count the letters in the title.  Minus 1.

Please do not swim to this cache - large boats/ferries pass through this area.  Cache is somewhere on Toronto Islands.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr uvagf: 1. Qba'g or nsenvq bs bgure ynathntrf. 2. N vf abg dhvgr gur fnzr nf gur bguref, ohg fubhyq or rnfl gb qrqhpr. 3. Pubeny. 4. Bapr lbh'ir tbg sbhe, gur erfg fubhyq or rnfvre. 5. Gurer ner 8 frcnengr rkprecgf sebz zber guna bar cvrpr. 6. Gur uvtuyvtugrq abgrf QB unir n fvtavsvpnapr. Pnpur: Pbbeqf znl or fyvtugyl bss (nyy gubhtu V nirentrq cyhf pbasvezrq jvgu tbbtyr zncf), fb urer'f fbzr thvqnapr gb TM: Cnex lbhe irffry ba gur fbhgu fvqr. Jnyx jrfg n fubeg qvfgnapr. Pnpur fubhyq or ba lbhe yrsg - pebbx bs gerr, pbirerq.

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)