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Welcome Bugabloo! (KPC2019) Mystery Cache

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kablooey: Need to find a new spot for this one, if I want to keep this puzzle.

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Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not hidden at the given coordinates. Solve the puzzle below to determine the cache location.

Okay, I think this puzzle should be solvable. At least, I hope it is. Good luck!

  • hotel in Sri Lanka (district)
  • awarded two Blue Cross medals (breed)
  • witnessed the death of her half-sister
  • met her husband at the Olympics (her country)
  • formerly named Peggy (year of name change)
  • Indonesian peak (new name)
  • Swedish advent calendar (Swedish)
  • born to Fátima and Sebastião
  • short-lived republic (capital)
  • competed in five Summer Olympics
  • hotel chain in Cambodia, Laos, and this country
  • related to Rukidi IV of Toro
  • park in Canada (city)
  • football club (last digit)
  • martyred and the subject of an Old English poem (location)

Special Notes about the 2019 Puzzle Challenge: To be considered for Fastest Solver points, you must verify your solution with Certitude. Finders will receive Top Finder points when submitting Found It logs to the cache page. All "point" scoring is arbitrary, subject to change, at the discretion of the cache owner, and probably completely meaningless (unless you just want to be announced sooner at the celebration party, assuming one happens sometime in 2020). The real challenge is to see whether I will have enough time to create a puzzle each month this 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: Another last-minute special, but this time I was able to put together enough data to assemble the name revealing puzzle. Hope lmt000 doesn't have a cache within 528 feet, as I haven't been able to solve all of his puzzles. August 2021: Nicolepelky found an error in the last item. I made a correction, but I'm surprised that nobody else notified me in the previous two years!


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First To Solve: teamajk (113 minutes)
First To Log: jeremiahsjohnson (205 minutes)
Named pre-hint solvers: 37
Pre-hint finds logged: 12
KPC2019 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2019 Finders Scoreboard
Previous KPC Puzzle: No Escape (KPC2018)
Next KPC Puzzle: Menagerie (KPC2019)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hint added January 15th.] Fur funerf ure anzr jvgu na nvecbeg nf jryy.

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)