This cache is part of the St. Charles Poetry GeoArt Series.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates. Solve the puzzle below and use the checker to get the final coordinates.
The other day MorrisonFam244, Gstall and I, (ScootieCache) were texting, talking about the Poetry GeoArt that we were making for April 2024. We agreed that Gary should contribute a puzzle. And Gary said he was “all in.”
Except the text didn’t say “I’m all in”. It was something more like, “Ib all getty!”
“What’s that, Gary?” we asked.
He tried again. “Om sill on if!”
We waited. He realized his mistake and he clarified, “I can’t get bongo outro Phill.”
“Umm, that’s nice Gary. Who's Bongo & Phill? And what are you talking about?”
Eventually he was able to explain that he was having problems typing and disabling the auto-fill function.
But it gave us an idea for a puzzle. What if you typed a poem with Gary’s Fat Fingers and hit the wrong keys more often than not, and even when you did, auto-correct changed what you typed? Could you recognize the original poem?
We decided to call it Typo-etry.
Rigorous scientific analysis* revealed that Gary hit the desired key approximately 30% of the time. Approximately 35% of the time he hit an immediately adjacent key, and then 15% of the time he hit a key two keys away from the target key, and the remaining 20% of the time was sort of a free-for-all: he hit any key, including numbers, symbols, and repeating the correct key, extra keys, reversed the order of a couple letters or skipping letters entirely.
If Gary tried to type the first letter of his name, that might look something like this:
Extrapolate that process out and his name may very well come out as GARY (if you’re lucky), or BARFTY (if you're funny), or even JANET (if you’re nasty).
Gary eventually sent us his completed Typo-etry piece. Your challenge is to try to figure out the original poem. Enter your answer in the checker below. Format your answer as [POEM TITLE by AUTHOR'S NAME].
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*Lab tests were conducted using vast quantities of Malort and electrical shock feedback systems, so you decide how valid they are. On second thought, maybe you should just ignore the data and try to “eyeball it.”