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WD80#74: WERDAVE'S Word Flips Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/22/2023
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache is part of the WERDAVE 80 for 80 series celebrating WERDAVE's birthday and his 17 plus years of hiding, adopting, and maintaining caches on the trails and in the parks throughout the Santa Clara Valley.


The cache is not at the posted coordinates.


In each row below the clue in the parenthesis describes a four-letter word which when spelled backwards (flipped) and appended by two or more letters will form a new word. The clue on the right side of the equation describes the new word. Concatenate all the new words into a single (pad) and use it to decrypt the OTP encoded coordinates.


01 (beat) + 2 = killing
02 (above) + 2 = cancel
03 (unite) + 2 = to fiddle with
04 (word type) + 3 = conciseness
05 (room) + 3 = sketch
06 (title) + 3 = emerge
07 (gulp down) + 3 = flamboyant
08 (Chinese unit of weight) + 3 = skin
09 (cover) + 3 = chatter
10 (terse) + 3 = kowtow
11 (wash) + 4 = assess
12 (cable car) + 4 = disciplinarian
13 (wagon) + 4 = grip
14 (molten) + 5 = snow slip
15 (cool) + 5 = annual leaf shedder
16 (student) + 5 = everlasting

RCEGGRTLZPOLBVQDLVVGTZZEGSFFXTHKFAYNTGSWEV
PLICPWEOLRKLFTAKPIIFCPDZRIAOFLTAVQENXAG
SGXKWQMECMEMOQIIGWSLRVHHLCZAKIKWVXY



Congratulations to first solver NYWanderer and first finder TeamOttlet.


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hide] Npghnyyl, gur oyhr obl unf orra ercynprq ol gur guva erqurnq.

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)