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Academic Search (KPC2022) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not located at the given coordinates. Solve the puzzle below to find the location of the cache.

I had a new idea for a puzzle. Somebody will surely tell me later that it's been done before. If this were a Dr. Flonase puzzle, I'm sure it would be Difficulty 3.5 or maybe even Difficulty 3, but I'm going to rate it harder and not give you any instructions.



You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Special Notes about the 2022 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 2023, as we haven't had one for the past two years). 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: Uncapitalized words have been excluded.


First To Solve: NYWanderer (105 minutes)
First To Log: ddlatham (193 minutes)
Named pre-hint solvers: 23
Pre-hint finds logged: 6
KPC2022 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2022 Finders Scoreboard
Previous KPC Puzzle: Year of the Tiger (KPC2022)
Next KPC Puzzle: Brute Forcers vs. Puzzle Solvers: Church Hill Tree
Final Exam: KPC2022 Final Exam

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hints added March 15th.] Gerng guvf nf n Jbeq Frnepu, ohg jvgu jbeqf vafgrnq bs yrggref. Jvxvcrqvn jnf zl fbhepr, naq hapncvgnyvmrq jbeqf ner fxvccrq.

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)