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Ocean's Cracker (KPC2011) Mystery Cache

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kablooey: Has gone missing too many times

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Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is not located at the listed coordinates above. To find the cache coordinates, solve the following puzzle.

A secret raid of safecracker Frank Catton's residence found the following mysterious list of numbers. Catton is a known associate of Danny Ocean. Is the group up to something again? If you want to post a log, you'll do best to watch out for the hyphens, they might just be there to throw you off track. In any case, when it comes to these guys, it would be a stretch to assume things are exactly as they seem.

Special Notes about the 2011 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with certitude. Because certitude may not properly account for joint solutions, please email me team member names in the case of team solutions to ensure proper point accounting. All "point" scoring is arbitrary anyway, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be able to brag more at the December banquet). The real challenge is just to see whether you can solve all of these caches by the end of the year. To maintain fairness, hints should not be offered by the cache owner or other solvers until the fifteenth of the month.

Special Notes about this month's puzzle: Congrats to jimbexleyspeed on being First To Solve last month's puzzle; so this month's puzzle is placed on the Peninsula. Cache location was moved April 20th, 2015. If you were a previous solver, recertify to get the new coordinates.

2011 Puzzle Challenge Finders
2011 Puzzle Challenge Solvers

First Ten Correct Solutions
candcfamily 10 Feb 11:44pm
mokelly 15 Feb 1:33am
payakoi 15 Feb 4:07pm
Gitonyerhorse 16 Feb 5:56pm
jimbexleyspeed & fizzymagic 16 Feb 10:02pm
mcdurr 17 Feb 7:03am
NeoTrinMorpheus 18 Feb 5:20am
Olivia Noelle 23 Feb 10:20pm
oaknest 25 Feb 4:13pm
Dotish 02 Mar 6:35pm
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First Ten Visits
candcfamily 11 Feb
mokelly 15 Feb
jimbexleyspeed 20 Feb
fizzymagic 21 Feb
Gitonyerhorse 22 Feb
Olivia Noelle 24 Feb
oaknest & CarlottaP 27 Feb
Geo Fan 04 Mar
GraffnTrix 04 Mar
The North Star 04 Mar

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hints added on February 15th.] Vtaber gur ulcuraf. Guvf chmmyr unf abguvat gb qb jvgu fnsrpenpxvat. Gur gvgyr punenpgre eryngrf gb gur gurzr, ohg ur arire unq n punapr ng gur ebfrf. [Hint added on February 23rd.] Jura lbh svaq "Xvat Jvyyvnz" lbh'yy or ba gur evtug genpx. [Container] Nygbvqf gva, jvguva n srj vapurf bs fvta "pbeare"

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)