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π Happy Pi Day, 2017! π Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/11/2017
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:



There is absolutely nothing wrong with the coordinates above. I'm sure they would take you to a very nice location where you could enjoy nature. However, if you want to find this cache, I don't recommend going there; I recommend solving the puzzle in the cache description below instead.

That being said, the cache is within 3.14159265359... km of the posted coordinates.



Happy Pi Day!


March 14th (3/14) is celebrated as Pi Day (3.14) by math enthusiasts around the world. Pi is the mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Mathematically, it’s transcendental and irrational. Its decimal places go on infinitely.

To celebrate the holiday, I have been serving up a Pi Day puzzle every year since 2014; here are the caches in the series thus far:

2014 - GC4ZJ6K
2015 - GC5N33X
2016 - GC6CCXC
2017 - GC71EYQ
2018 - GC7KADF
2019 - GC82DRP
2020 - GC8KCRK
2021 - GC97CB8
2022 - GC9PQ0A
2023 - GCA4BKB
2024 - GCAJMK3

For 2017, I presented this conundrum:

82237  73182  12172  35291  43354  21451  58422  37383  41488  43234
13282  32282  85393  13466  21311  54215  61456  13541  21343  41182
51321  16236  45861  12223  21913  34258  21122  33443  43599  21552
51345  31455  52132  83365  12211  21427  53194  62364  12462  21243
42272  53332  84433  12153  21819  53135  61267  13572  21456  47172
53341  82473  17355  21313  53261  62223  12117  21618  43591  55495
44261  51222  13953  38172  41446  11125  55391  77133  41473  52114
21916  72661  19254  21422  31172  41141  32277  55393  32343  21454
12473  21712  53384  15165  48281  57131  13862  85134  15132  21735
12425  44526  16365  21514  33451  21953

 

Enjoy, happy hunting, and good luck spilling your ink. Cache ya later!
Ol'Fogie


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Puzzle]: Lbh znl unir frra guvf glcr bs chmmyr orsber, ohg hfvat vg sbe Cv vf n abiry vqrn. [Hide]: Va gur zvqqyr bs gur ryrcunag'f abfr.

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)