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TDOC23: Christmas Film Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/9/2023
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


The 12 Days of Cachemas (TDOC23) is a series of 78 caches, events and adventure labs placed across Victoria to celebrate Cachemas in July in 2023.
The series is a joint initiative of Geocaching Victoria and the local community to release caches in a different category each day across the state. We hope you have as much fun finding this series as we had placing them.

On the tenth day of Cachemas, Signal gave to me,
ten mysteries solving,
nine letters boxing,
eight gadgets tricking,
seven TOTTs a-needing,
six events meeting,
five adventure labs,
four active CITOs,
three quirky challenges,
two earthcaches
and a wherigo up in a tree.

Now on to the cache...

 

What is the best Christmas film?

As we all know, there is a correct answer and it is Die Hard.
This 1988 blockbuster stars Bruce Willis as Detective John McClane who goes to attend a party on Christmas Eve just as a criminal mastermind (pre-Snape Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber) and his terrorist buddies try to steal a cool $640 million dollars from a vault in the very same building! What a coincidence!
After several explosions, shootouts, and broken windows, McClane heroically foils Gruber & co's plans, thereby simultaneously saving the money, Christmas, and the possibility of a sequel (or four).

Just about all of the film was shot on 35mm Eastman 400T 5295, and some special effect shots were achieved using 65mm Eastman 125T 5247. Both of these were developed by the Eastman Kodak Company, which you may recognise more simply as Kodak. With so much film involved in the production of a movie like Die Hard, I wonder how they keep track of it all...

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Puzzle] (v) Obgu zbivr vzntrf ner hfrshy (vv) Fgnpx lbhe ebjf sbe n cvpgbevny bhgchg [GZ] (v) Sbex bs 3 gehaxf nobhg 1z bss gur tebhaq (vv) Chyy bhg tragyl, gura erjvaq jvgu fvqr xabo

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)