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Corona RASH - or a Grouch Returns from ... Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/15/2020
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the posted coordinates (no boat required!).

Just when you thought at least the Corona virus doesn't give you a RASH, now it's given you two (GC8YCP8 got published earlier on the day I'm writing this - and no, we did not coordinate this).

As my other local RASH puzzle, this one is also based on JWCOREY's series of puzzles starting with GC2DX6M, which contains the rules for a RASH puzzle, so please consult them there, if you are unfamiliar.

Here are the puzzle elements in alphabetical order:


1. A Corpse 26. Our Ugly Bloke
2. A Dear Stalker 27. Plant-atom Baby-pirate Adult
3. A Demon-child 28. Pork-veto
4. A Disappearance from Earth 29. Rattle-pike under Sorrow
5. A Divorced-heel 30. Riot in a Charity
6. A Latin Relation 31. Some Noise about Jazz
7. A Pleasure Chest 32. Spoil-pot
8. A Queen's Monologue 33. Stone-code
9. A Rediscovered Day-break 34. Tangos amidst Sheep
10. A Tiny Search-husk 35. That Tiniest Parade from Mars
11. Absent without a Fart 36. The Beast-empty Heart
12. An American Doctor 37. The Brit from London
13. An Oblivion in many Angels 38. The State against Senile Fellows
14. Cold murder The-pricey-Ferrari 39. These Elite Shocks in Their Souls
15. Cowardly-soul 40. Thunder Dude
16. Dump-cat Zero-water 41. Top-time Goat-girl
17. From a Cold to a Darkness 42. Two Ran Across the Fool's Den
18. Game-boy 43. Un-decimal Tinkle-mate
19. German Ugliness 44. Under an Air-bag
20. Hen-since 45. Under an Ocean for Drink-Coffee Stupor
21. I Won't Leave Him without Her 46. Unhappy-you-drank-iron
22. I'm-the-god 47. Walking Your Step
23. Lackey 48. Whence Withered Were Thy Mounds
24. Much Noise from a Cowboy Stunt 49. Wild Border Novel
25. Of Hearken from Heaven 50. Woods Chick

After you have determined the correct answers to all the elements, here is what you need to do to turn them into coordinates. Each of the elements will be naturally associated with a 1- or 2-digit number (also with a 4-digit number, but that is not unique for the first few elements, so let's ignore that). If you enter all the answers in a spreadsheet, sort them alphabetically and write the associated 1- or 2-digit number next to them. Use the last digit of those numbers from the following rows in the spreadsheet to obtain the coordinates:


2, 7, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 30, 43, 4, 18, 39, 45, 3, 10

Of course, you can also just use pen and paper to do this; you don't have to create a spreadsheet, but it would make the sorting easier.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[puzzle] Gur gvgyr uvagf ng gur gurzr. [cache hint in Certitude].

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)