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Ailihphilia Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/25/2022
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Ailihphilia is the love of palindromes, words or sentences that are read the same backward and forward.  Notice that ailihphilia is a palindrome!  Conversely, aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes, the word being a palindrome itself.  The cache is not at the posted coords.  I chose those coords merely because it is a palindrome.

Was it a car or a cat I saw?  A nut for a jar of tuna.  A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

These are all cool sentences that are also palindromes.  Yeah, sometimes the sentences don’t make much sense.  If you want to see a really long palindrome, check out the related web page.  There are other websites that claim to have longer palindromes but they’re just a bunch of words that don’t really make sense.  Some of the most common palindromes are:  dad, wow, toot, civic, kayak, level, radar, racecar, and rotator.  I’m a firm believer that puzzle caches and/or challenge caches should be rewarded with a nicely stocked ammo can.  Unfortunately, I’ve had too many ammo cans stolen so you’re searching for a matchstick container.  In order to obtain the final coords, you must decipher them from the following story:

Let me tell you a story about my good friends Eve and Ada.  They worked in a carton factory in Greece and desperately wanted to go on holiday.  Unfortunately, demand for cartons was very low so no matter how much they worked, they couldn't afford to do any traveling.  Their boss kept telling them that the cartons must sell at tallest sum and kept insisting that they sell cartons to their friends and family.  His name was Odo.

The girls came up with an ingenious idea.  They decided to put geocache coordinates inside each carton and introduce the game of geocaching to the locals.  The cartons sold like hotcakes!  In a matter of days, they sold every carton in the factory.  No trace, not one carton was left!  Their incredible feat made its way to Sports Illustrated and they sent one of their authors, Mark Kram, to do a story about the two girls.  Mark has written articles about the famous Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova as well as Golden State Warrior Otto Porter Jr. A movie deal is in the works with Robert Trebor playing the part of the mean boss with cameos from local geocache legends such as Martin, Karen, Benny, John, Fred, Andy, and Chase (if he doesn't have band practice).  So now the girls have raised enough money to go on holiday and are planning a Bavarian trip to Burggrub in Germany, visiting geocaching headquarters in Seattle, driving through Kansas for Mingo and Arikaree, and then hopping a flight to Aramara to pick up Lane Cove in Australia.


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Rkpyhqr chapghngvba naq dhbgngvba znexf... hfr whfg gur yrggref! Uvqr: Frr fcbvyre cvpf va gur tnyyrel.

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)