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Dorking's 3Ws: The Wicked Witch of Westhumble Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/8/2006
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The third of Dorking's 3Ws is the village of Westhumble. This is the fourth of 5 caches I have placed in or near this interesting village.

The coordinates are for a nearby free car park which you should use. You can assume N 51 and W 000 for the cache.

This cache is named in honour of a mysterious, and possibly apocryphal, local geocacher. Her fellow cachers have apparently made the following remarks about her caching powers:

"she can spot an extra zero in a heading error and revise it"

"when out with fellow geocachers she gave no alarms when disorientated"

"at a cache bash she can quell a pub riot after swallowing one tocopherol"

"at the front, followed by a central group from behind, and surrounded by fog, is she the one to follow?"

One of these four comments ("the clue"), when correctly interpreted, will help you to crack the code below and so find the location of the cache.

The other 3 comments are rather less helpful; but when you have solved them you will at least know that they aren´t much help!

A
BC
DE
FGH
IJK
LM
NOP
Q
RST
U
VW

(A,2)(V,1)(D,1)(B,3)(F,3)(C,7)(I,3)(P,2)(P,3)

(D,1)(F,2)(U,6)(O,5)(D,4)(S,2)(E,4)(R,3)(H,7)(O,2)(M,3)

(C,7)(S,4)(U,1)(W,1)(I,2)(C,2)(L,3)(L,2)(K,7)(F,2)(O,1)

(U,3)(F,4)(S,3)(U,10)(T,2)(K,3)(J,2)(F,3)(O,3)(D,4)(W,3)

Happy hunting. When logging please do not give any information about how you solved this puzzle or leave any spoilers regarding the cache locations. Please bring your own pen to sign the log.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

chmmyr pyhr: Plfgvgvf (jvgu ncbybtvrf sbe gur ybj uhzbhe) pnpur: bgure fvqr bs tngr sebz gur vafgehpgvbaf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)