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Opening Lines (KPC2019) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not hidden at the given coordinates. Solve the puzzle below to determine the real coordinates of the cache.

There is one category of puzzle that I'm not really any good at. Even the supposedly easy ones around the Bay Area have continued to stump me. So, here's my attempt at what I think is a beginner one. Kudos to you if you can solve it without using the internet, I know I wouldn't be able to!

  • Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
  • In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea.
  • Wise men say only fools rush in.
  • Oh, my love, my darling, I've hungered for your touch a long, lonely time.
  • How lucky can one guy be? I kissed her and she kissed me!
  • When the night has come and the land is dark
  • My lover's got humor, she's the giggle at a fun'ral.
  • I see trees of green, red roses too.
  • Almost heaven, West Virginia.
  • Is this the real life?
  • It's nine o-clock on a Saturday
  • Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind
  • Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
  • I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain.
  • Hello darkness my old friend

Special Notes about the 2019 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, assuming one happens sometime in 2020). The real challenge is to see whether I will have enough time to create a puzzle each month this year! 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: There are often scoring variations; so it may help to know that I used the same reference (might only be helpful if you can find it), and remember that this is a beginner puzzle. Of course, if you're thanman2, you probably don't read these notes anyway.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

First To Solve: teamajk (184 minutes)
First To Log: thanman2 (249 minutes)
Named pre-hint solvers: 27
Pre-hint finds logged: 9
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hint added May 15th.] Cvnab. Ortvaaref.

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)