GAG10 - Money Mart Mystery Cache
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Terrain:
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Size: 
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Cache was placed for the GAG10 event and not to be logged until after 6:00 p.m. April 27th 2006.
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THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES but is within 3 km's.
The posted coords are for the local McDonalds where I'm sure you can get some of the coins necessary to complete this cache.
Cache is located close to a well travelled NCC trail.
My eagle-eyed 7 year old daughter was examining some coins she received after making a purchase and said "I've got an idea for a geocache. All the coins have really small letters on them. People can use these letters to find our cache. Look!" I had to adjust my glasses, squint, and stare at the coins to make these letters out but she was correct. Each coin had 1, 2, or 3 initials on the "tails" side. A little research on the internet confirmed that these letters are the initials of the person who designed the coin.
Empty your pockets, look under the couch cushions, check the laundry machine and raid your kids piggy bank to find the following Canadian coins:
Toonie (3 polar bears)
Toonie (1 polar bear)
Penny - 2001
Quarter - Breast Cancer 2006
Quarter - January 1999
Quarter - Creativity 2000
Quarter - Wisdom 2000
Quarter - Alberta 2005
Quarter - Mountie 1973
Quarter - 1974 (acutally, any quarter with the caribou on it will do)
Convert the initials to numbers (A=1, B=2, etc) and perform the following calculations to find the cache location.
Cache is located at N45 AB.CDE W75 FG.HIJ
A = January 1999 Quarter 1st initial divided by it's second initial
B = Caribou Quarter 1st initial
C = Wisdom 2000 Quarter 1st initial minus Toonie (1 bear) 1st inital
D = Alberta 2005 Quarter 2nd initial
E = Wisdom 2000 Quarter 1st initial plus Breast Cancer 2006 1st initial
F = Toonie (3 bears) 2nd initial plus Toonie (1 bear) 1st initial
G = January 1999 Quarter 1st inital minus Alberta 2005 2nd initial
H = Mountie 1973 Quarter 1st intial - January 1999 Quarter 1st initial
I = Alberta 2005 Quarter 2nd initial
J = Penny 2001 2nd initial
Cache contains $5.76 FTF prize (The amount required to set up this cache)
Wareed Geocoin
and
assorted Dollar Store items
Happy hunting.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
hfr n zntavslvat tynff; ubyybj gerr.