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Presidential Portraits (KPC2019) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not located at the given coordinates. Determine the full cache coordinates by correctly solving the puzzle below.

It seems like the days go by quickly this time of year. It makes me thankful that I've postponed the final exam into next year, as creating that cache is a lot more work. A last-minute micro hide on December 1st, as my original regular-sized hide was rejected for proximity reasons.

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: I was going to make this even more obscure, but "South Africa's First" was too ambiguous. Had to relocate the cache (was previously a regular) because my original hide ran into a proximity issue. The container currently has no pencil; so bring your own writing instrument. Bumped the difficulty from 4 to 4.5 after nobody found the solution in the first 18 hours.


You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

First To Solve: toolrep1 (20 hours)
First To Log: lmt000 (39 hours)
Named pre-hint solvers: 19
Pre-hint finds logged: 4
KPC2019 Solvers Scoreboard
KPC2019 Finders Scoreboard
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Hint added December 17th.] Pbhag gur qnlf.

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)