Exercise 4: It’s Alive!

The solution to this puzzle is a set of geospatial coordinates (longitude and latitude) in the form:

N 26º 09.mmm’ W 80º 13.mmm’

Where “.mmm” is minutes (in thousandths). These coordinates are the solution to the mystery cache Puzzle Solving 101 – Lesson 4: Wordplay (GCYXZ4). (This cache has been archived—the puzzle-solving lesson on the cache page is still visible, but the cache can no longer be found and logged.)

 

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Concatenate the ten digits (which may include leading and/or trailing zeroes) of the north minutes and west minutes together in left-to-right order to get the password to unlock the solution page. For example, if the solution is North 26º 01.234′ West 80º 56.789′ then the password would be 0123456789.

HINT (double-click the text to reveal): Vs lbh trg fghpx, purpx jvgu Tbbtyr, Jvxvcrqvn, naq Bar Npebff.

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