snowberry Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 This will lead to the co ordinates of the spot where the cache is; I'm stumped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_H Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes - but whats at N 50° 07.224' W 005° 32.067 ?? H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 That's near the right co ordinates, but they're dummy ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Phew! I can now put you all out of your misery Having solved the jigsaw, I then had to solve the code on the page. It was a cipher called (ahem!) Brainf@*£. This then translated into numbers (my computer didn't recognise it as numbers so this threw me out!). Then I had to decode the numbers in a vigenere cipher. This gave me at first seemingly random words, but I then realised that it was a shopping list for toys from a large internet retail store...so I went to the page for the two items & there! Lo & behold! I found the co-ordinates in the product description that led me to the second floor of a shopping centre in Penzance. So there we were yesterday, with me hanging over the edge of the paraphet, knowing that the cache I was looing for was there somewhere. However I'm not tall enough & failed to find the very small object I was looking for Then we had to go as it was school run time Within the hour someone else had solved the puzzle, been to ground zero & retrieved the cache Do any of you fancy helping me solve the next puzzle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 That was a doozy! Sorry you missed out on a FTF, I enjoy geocaching but that puzzle was way beyond my capabilities Good luck with any others you tackle, Lucy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxFighters Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 We geocahe too! Do you really need to decode this? We were doing one with a cipher and we tried everything but just couldn't work it out. We used the hints, and found it (ok, it took 3 attempts but it was moved!) and we still to this day don't know the cipher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 Yes, it was nearby, but on the other side of the shopping centre; we eventually went back & retrieved it on Sunday night, so were STF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 what's STF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 Second To Find, as opposed to First To Find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I know you've found the cache, but if you still want to solve the cypher I think I know how. I believe it's written in a programming language (called a name I'm not going to type here. See this Wiki page). You need a compiler to turn it in to a program. If you run the program I would expect it to display useful message. That's my theory. I've not tried to do this yet (I'm at work). May try later, if no one else get there first - good one for a computer geek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gongladosh Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 there are various cypher apps you can download to help work out what the codes mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted May 14, 2012 Author Share Posted May 14, 2012 Yes Cloud, I did solve the puzzle, then the cipher & the next....and the next! I have learnt so much since then regarding 'other ways to think'. There are some truly devilish ones planned for the area so I hear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
