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Holy Pope-Company RASH Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/22/2016
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the posted coordinates, but is within two miles.

In Massachusetts, there is a series of puzzle caches by JWCOREY called "RASH" puzzles. The first one in the series was GC2DX6M. I always enjoyed solving them, even if I was not nearly as good at solving them as some of the other local puzzle solvers. I figured I'd try my hand at creating a RASH puzzle for the Bay Area. Just like in many of the later JWCOREY RASHes you have to detect the theme of the puzzle, but I suspect it won't take most Bay Area cachers very long. Please consult the rules of a RASH puzzle in the reference cache.

Here are the elements of this RASH:

Holy Pope-company RASH


1. Amphitheatres-urbs 26. Hertz
2. Ancient-retreat 27. Holy Pope-company
3. Annual Metropolis 28. Howl-by-coffee-yes
4. Atlantic-o 29. Intersection Town
5. Bill's Mountain 30. Klaus Trump
6. Blouse Bass 31. Le Renault
7. Bound-rise 32. Maple-country
8. Budding-play 33. Milah-misery
9. Ceiling-kernel River 34. Grind-cheese
10. Chime-vault 35. Moon brew-yes
11. Chop-rogers 36. Mu-fresh-city
12. Cloudy-bride 37. Nasty-under
13. Crematory-out Knoll 38. Nicholas Barton
14. Daughter Barbosa 39. North Sublime Paris-was-club
15. Disaster Sopranos 40. Orb Tavern-high
16. Divine Santana 41. Orphan Hamlet
17. Double Planet Gulf 42. Poor-dune
18. Corn-asylum 43. Sapphire Mountains
19. Evil Coffee 44. Steuben
20. Fidel Gorge 45. Sweatshop-bean-AP
21. Floe-wind 46. Toddler-sized Playground
22. Gain Violas Bluffs 47. Urinate-on-hill
23. Garrison-gong 48. Valley Vista
24. Green-forest Village 49. Whiskey-hi Ditch
25. Heart-less 50. WTI-timber


I apologize if your favorite element is missing. It may be out of ignorance or simply because I couldn't find a good way to find a RASHification of it. To obtain the coordinates, enter the answers to all 50 elements into Certitude (if you made a spreadsheet of all the entries in column A, "=CONCATENATE(A1:A50)" will create an input string for Certitude for you):


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Puzzle:] Ahzore sbegl-sbhe jnf nyfb xabja nf "iba Fgrhora".

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)