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Knight Moves Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/12/2016
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Come to Red Bank - To GeoCache!

Cache is NOT at the Posted Coordinates.

This puzzle is based on an online puzzle created by ePeterso2.    

Cache is located at N 35° AB.CDE W 085° FG.HIJ


In the ancient form of chess known as shatranj, the piece next to the king is the ferzan. The ferzan moves diagonally in any direction (like a bishop) but only one space (unlike a bishop, which can move any number of spaces).

A tour is a sequence of moves on a grid where a piece moves from its starting square to every other square, visiting each square on the grid only once. The grid below contains a message that can be read by following a tour beginning at the square marked START, then making alternating moves of a knight and a ferzan (the first move is a knight move). The numbers of letters in each word of the solution are, in order:

7 4 6 5 3 2 3 3 2 5 6 7 3 3 3 2

 

Solving the puzzle will reveal a secret message that you will need to finish the puzzle.

Once you have completed the “Tour”, take the last 10 squares you used, and copy the Letter/Number of these squares.   Then sort those letters/numbers in alphabetical order.   The sequence of numbers on the sorted letters should be the location of the final.

 


 


You are looking for a film canister sized container, hidden in the usual way. 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vs lbh unir pbasvezrq svany pbbeqvangrf, ohg fgvyy pna'g ybpngr gur pbagnvare, frnepu sbe guvf YCP shegure sebz gur znva ebnq.... Znxr fher lbh ernq gur zrffntr jvguva Trbpurpxre

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)