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Not My Way (KPC2023) 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 puzzle below to determine the coordinates of the cache.

Well, my original idea was to have the cache tie into Frank Sinatra somehow, but I didn't figure out how I was going to make that work; so I'm not going to do this my way. Unfortunately, this is going to be one of those puzzles that depends on using Google and is subject to the whims and changes of Google and the world itself. So, if it's been a year since anybody solved this, and you're having trouble, you might want to reach out to me with your progress and where you are stuck.

  • 37.3963361,-122.1010032
  • 42.5231782,-71.758900
  • 47.848516,12.9655025
  • 40.05257,-84.2439857
  • 59.3194,18.0622
  • 37.61796,-122.10231
  • 37.66578,-121.87223
  • 37.695,-122.0879
  • 34.2046408,-118.2059343
  • 36.996908,-122.05499
  • 25.84815,-80.18289
  • 34.649491,135.524873
  • 17.95148,-66.2285
  • 37.42322,-122.1723681
  • 37.545917,-121.998095

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Special Notes about the 2023 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, which will probably happen in Spring 2024). The real challenge is to see whether I can keep from getting so frustrated by submitting caches that I decide to quit! 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 almost decided to completely change this puzzle when I found out about Collins Area People on Old Tractors, but I decided it was too late to do a bunch more research. I parked at the given coordinates when I hid the cache.


First To Solve: ddlatham (22 minutes)
First To Log: ddlatham (154 minutes)
Named pre-hint solvers: 19
Pre-hint finds logged: 6
KPC2023 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2023 Finders Scoreboard
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Next KPC Puzzle: Going 'Round Robertson Park (KPC2023)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hint added May 15th.] Zl jnl be gur _______. (Pnyvsbeavn bayl)

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)