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pizza gent makes regular conga chop Mystery Cache

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vhasler: Really hate to archive a solid puzzle geocache, but I could not find the container in the field. (Found a baseball in the woods?) Since challenging puzzle caches are not popular these days (two years since last find), I'll just let this one fade into the history books. Had fun creating it several years ago.

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Hidden : 9/25/2008
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Say what? Did you mean "kingsport anagram puzzle geocache"?

Another puzzle, but not a micro. The container is a hot liquid thermos received at the "It's A Celebration" event. Didn't need one at the house, so trying it out in the field. Have seen this type of container before, but let me know quickly of any problems.

The genesis of this cache was listening to Podcacher podcast about Sonny hitting the difficult virtual cache on Yosemite Half-Dome. The cache title of "Semidome Loft, Yeah!" was an anagram, which then got me thinking about my next hide. A quick search of gc.com finds less than a dozen caches with the word "anagram" in their title. Easy would be to do the short words separately. More difficult was the anagram crossword puzzle. But I decided to do the whole coord in two parts as someone might say them. Folks have written solving tools which can help you break these down, nevertheless gave it a four star difficulty rating as I tried to solve it myself the following day. Appears to be about right with other puzzle caches in the area.

So enjoy reversing these lines:
"My witty hint: Hounds’ teeth go into tiny x’s hidden under terror trees."
and
"O’, I never regret the sweet foot muddiness when thee get it. eo"

So here's geochecker to confirm your solution: Geochecker.com

The container is hidden on a hillside with several valid locations. Please place it back so that it cannot be readily seen in case others wander this direction. Accuracy is 25' so think about where you would stash a container in this area. The parking area is also popular with fisherman heading to the Holston River and teens parking, so be aware of others during these time periods.

Oh yeah, the cache is not at the given coordinates, which would take you to Pizza Hut in Colonial Heights, where my wife and I first ate when we visited Kingsport 20+ years ago for a job interview. The actual cache is within a couple of miles from there.

10/6/08 update: Okay, see the owner's maintenance log for how I really messed up the original final coords. Many apologies to the four DNF's. Did you have fun anyway?

10/12/08 update: It has been correctly pointed out that the west coord does not have a unique solution. With logic, you should be able to get down to six options. Appears that folks are then trying them one at a time into the geochecker to confirm the right solution.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ragre pebbxrq ghea

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)