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Ten Names (KPC2021) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not located at the given coordinates. Solve the following puzzle to determine the cache location.

Well, it's been about a year since we finally moved on from Ten; so here's a word puzzle. Each line below has an extra letter. So, how can this be called Ten Names when there are fifteen items?

  • PENTARCH
  • LOGIN
  • GIRTED
  • HER CHEAT
  • TEMBLOR
  • CELEBRANT
  • WOODEN SPIRAL
  • PANICULATE
  • A BUG JAR
  • ARRIVES
  • MOIST EYED
  • BLACKISH
  • TOOLBAR
  • FUJIS
  • TRASHY


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Special Notes about the 2021 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, if one even happens in 2022, as we didn't have one in 2020 and it looks dubious as to whether we'll have one in 2021). The real challenge is to see whether I can even figure out how to create a new 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 idea. Sometimes I think that it's just too easy to Google solutions. Although you may still need to do that here, the extra twist should delay you a bit, I think.


First To Solve: toolrep1 (22 minutes)
First To Log: ddlatham (88 minutes)
Named pre-hint solvers: 34
Pre-hint finds logged: 9
KPC2021 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2021 Finders Scoreboard
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hint added November 16th.] Gur svefg sbhe anzrf ner nyy navznyf.

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)