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The Nemean Lion Mystery Cache

Hidden : 11/20/2006
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The first in a series of tough but fun puzzles which could have been called "tjapukai goes mythological". The coords are for a convenient car park.

You need to decipher the following cipher:

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and you will need to do so in conjunction with the following text:

Joseph Sobran's article "'Shakespeare' Revealed in Oxford's Poetry" claims to provide "conclusive proof" that Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was actually the author of the Shakespeare canon. Sobran's "proof" consists of verbal parallels he has found between Oxford's acknowledged poetry and Shakespeare's plays and poems, and he concludes that, "[t]aken all in all, these parallels disclose the working of a single mind".END


You will also find that the following website points you to some (but not all) of the information you need:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Classical_ciphers


The solution to the puzzle will get you to the cache with further info provided in geocheck below. The area can get pretty muddy in winter. Please don't leave any spoliers in the logs and replace the cache box exactly as you found it. I hope you enjoy this series as much as I have enjoyed setting it.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

svany pnpur: Fgnaq ba n syng cynpr gb frr gur ivrj naq lbh'yy or pybfr; ybbx onpx bire lbhe evtug fubhyqre n srj lneqf naq lbh jvyy frr gur boivbhf cynpr

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)