Fraternal Twins Challenge Mystery Cache
Fraternal Twins Challenge
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On 2/17/14, I found a cache named Flutterby (GC4DYB1), hidden by mondoveloz, on the way to lunch in Pahrump, Nevada. On 4/12/14, I found another Flutterby (GC3E583), hidden by mkanhnh & midnight, in Gilford, NH. I started to wonder how many other caches I had found that had the same names but were hidden by different cachers.
Those two Flutterby caches were nearly 2,400 miles apart. But I found two named The Way Life Should Be only 5 miles apart in Maine. GC317JV was by hidden by MountainWanderer and GC10Z8X was hidden by Want2bemore & pgmccarter. These caches are actually Identical Twins.
This challenge includes Fraternal Twins - caches that have nearly the same name but were hidden by different cachers. Turns out that I have over 35 sets of Identical or Fraternal Twins, with one set of triplets, and one set of quadruplets.
So to log this cache, you must first find at least 25 sets of Fraternal or Identical Twins. You can list them in your log, or attach a bookmark list to verify your finds.
Here are the RULES -
Identical Twin names are allowed, but a slight difference in the cache name iis allowed for Fraternal Twins. To be Fraternal Twins, the cache names must be the same except for one letter or number. Punctuation, and whether letters are capitalized or not, is ignored.
For example, Barrel of MONKEYS and Barrel O'Monkeys work since they both have all the same letters except one uses an extra f. The apostrophe is ignored and the fact that some letters are capitalized is not important. For the same reasons Batter up! and BATT-R-Up are fraternal twins, since they share all their letters except one uses an e.
Fraternal Twins must be hidden by different cachers. So sets like boatrs' Easier in Winter or Dan & Mae's Branch Caches won't work since the entire set was hidden by the same geocacher. But series like RRR #02 and RRR #21 will work, since these two caches were hidden by different cachers.
I will allow up to 5 of your hides as one of a set of Twins, since the goal is more caches!
The letters could even be in different orders and still qualify. So 2/7 Multi and Multi 5.2 are Fraternal Twins since they have the same letters and the 2, but one uses a 5 and the other uses a 7. Butterfly is a Fraternal Twin with my Flutterby example, since they all share the same letters.
UPDATE - 3/19/17 - The cache is now at the posted location. Since the powers that be want all new challenges to be at the posted coordinates, I'm changing these so comply.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Abj ng gur cbfgrq pbbeqvangrf.