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New Years Eve - 2015 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/30/2015
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


 

THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES

At the posted coordinates you can catch a flight to Times Square.

 

N 36 AB.CDE     W 076 FG.HIJ

 

Select the correct answers to find the cache.

 

First New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square              

A = 5           December 31, 1907

A = 8           December 31, 2015

 

Auld Lang Syne means this

B = 7           Time for a DNF

B = 2           Time gone by

 

Noise making and fireworks on New Year’s Eve             

C = 5           Dispel evil spirits and bring good luck

C = 0           To scare the dogs and babies

 

Good Luck Food

D = 6           Watermelon

D = 2           Black-eyed peas

 

One of the top resolutions (this is NOT a trick question)

E = 8            Lose weight

E = 0            Find more caches than last year

 

Most popular New Year’s Day parade

F = 9            Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

F = 1            Tournament of Roses

 

The ball in Times Square begins dropping

G = 2           11:59 PM

G = 0           11:59 AM

 

What is stolen the most on New Year’s Day?

H = 8           Caches

H = 4           Vehicles

 

Why was the New Year’s Eve ball not lowered in 1942 and 1943?

I = 1             Wartime restrictions

I = 9            Someone took it to use for a BIG cache container

 

Have money in your hand at midnight to ensure

J = 6            PAF payoffs for the New Year

J = 3            Economic prosperity in the New Year



Additional Hints (Decrypt)

grgurerq ybj

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)