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Cinema Series: Finale Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/20/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

CACHE IS NOT AT THE COORDINATES LISTED. Follow the instructions below. An ammo can full of swag awaits you, and how often can you say that in an urban area?


This "Cinema Series" of caches celebrates local spots where iconic movies were filmed, and this is your final location! Visit each cache in the series and you will gather coordinates to direct you to the "finale" here. (Oscar speech optional, but encouraged.)

My apologies that while many of the caches below are wheelchair accessible, the final location is not.

Each of the five movie locations below are easy finds, with hints provided. All are either in residential neighborhoods or high muggle areas, and so are meant to be found quickly for maximum stealth. If there is any chance of muggles observing you, please move on to the next cache and come back later. This is especially true in the two quiet residential neighborhoods. The loss of one of these containers means the whole series goes down. Thank you.

Solve these coordinates to find the finale:

North 34 A.B    West 118 C.DE

The log sheet at each cache in the series will clearly identify in red whether the coordinate clue fulfills A, B, C, D or E.

Cinema Series:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The Sting

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Halloween

Back to the Future

Obviously, many more movies than these were filmed in this area, but most of those spots are too close to existing geocaches or too obscure to be enjoyable. Also I didn't want this to take forever. Visiting all five requires a total trip of 15 miles, but all can be visited within an hour or so.

I have numbered them to create the most efficient route if you are hitting them all at once, but of course they can be done in any order. To keep track of your progress if you are doing these over multiple days, you can open this Finale cache page and enter a "personal geocache note," which you can save and build on as you gather all the coordinates.

Once solved, read the hint. It will save you wasted time. Not accessible after dark.

Congrats to Enchantingly Wild and Team TBO for FTF

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Cresrpg cnexvat znl or sbhaq vs lbh fhogenpg 200 sebz gur (fbyirq) ynfg guerr Abegu qvtvgf, naq 40 sebz gur ynfg guerr Jrfg qvtvgf. Nsgre cnexvat, urnq jrfg n tbbq jnlf ORSBER lbh urnq abegu. Bgurejvfr lbh'yy unir gb onpxgenpx. Nzzb pna haqre bnx gerr, abegu fvqr.

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)