Skip to content

Winter Vacation (KPC2020) Mystery Cache

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

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

Join now to view geocache location details. It's free!

Watch

How Geocaching Works

Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions in our disclaimer.

Geocache Description:


The cache is not located at the given coordinates. Solve the puzzle below to determine the cache's actual coordinates.

Some people spend their winter vacation traveling. Others spend it watching old movies on the sofa. If you had enough time to do both (hopefully you have TSA PreCheck), you might have an advantage when it comes to solving this puzzle.

  • Rain Man (1988)
  • The Hit List (2011)
  • Wings (1927)
  • Air America (1990)
  • Henry Fool (1997)
  • War Games (1983)
  • Love the Coopers (2015)
  • Acapulco Gold (1976)
  • The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
  • Heat (1995)
  • Small Town Killers (2017)
  • Before Midnight (2013)
  • Bullitt (1968)
  • Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
  • Hazardous Ops (1989)

Special Notes about the 2020 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 2021). 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: I think there used to be a cache around here somewhere, but I don't see one now. The first puzzle of the year is supposed to be easier; so don't overthink it. Also, it will help you use the same reference I did .


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

First To Solve: CarlottaP (58 minutes)
First To Log: cachbefound (139 minutes)
Named pre-hint solvers: 27
Pre-hint finds logged: 9
KPC2020 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2020 Finders Scoreboard
Previous KPC Puzzle: Presidential Portraits (KPC2019)
Next KPC Puzzle: #Hashtag (KPC2020)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hint added January 15th.] V hfrq VZQO nf zl erfbhepr. Guerr zbfg vzcbegnag guvatf va erny rfgngr.

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)