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3 x 3 Challenge Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/11/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is at the above coordinates, but as this is a Challenge cache, the cacher will need to post a picture of their Difficulty/Terrain grid showing they have found all the appropriate 25 combinations.

For this Challenge you will probably need a 4wd (you heard it from Chris). Congratulations to Browngang for being the First to Find

I had wanted to post a similar 4 x 4 Challenge cache in this Sancrox area, but on looking at a few of the MNCM’s stats realised that there was only a few that would qualify, so opted for a ‘softer challenge’.
I know Premium members can go to their Profile page/Lists/Statistics, and scroll down to see a Difficulty / Terrain Grid outlining the combinations and numbers found, with an average of each given.

Press your ‘Screen Capture’ button on your keyboard (Prt Scrn, maybe), open a document page, and paste the captured shot. You should then be able to crop and enlarge the section that shows the title, averages, and the grid, and then save that as a jpeg file, with your Name, and 3x3 as the title, which you then add to your log. (You may need to use Paint to crop and save as a JPEG)

For this Challenge you need to have each of the grid squares filled, up to and including the 3’s, which gives a total of 25 different combinations of the 1, 1½, 2, 2½, and 3 Difficulty and Terrain combinations. It would have the squares filled, like the Grid below.


Grahame Cookie's grid @ 23/7/12

For ‘Freemium’ members, you may email me your intention to get this cache and I will send you a grid which will have your caching name on it. (It may not ‘happen overnight, but it will happen’)

Access: Suggested turn off from Oxley Highway: S31 28.069 E152 47.924 (or thereabouts), you may wish you had a 4wd, tho I’ve got my ‘go-kart’ there, and back! For those that want to test their 4wd out, take the firstturn to the left, about 100 m in. Otherwise proceed past the 3 x 3 x 3 Challenge cache, and then turn left/west, and up a not so rutted track.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur gvgyr, sebz gur gevt, va zrgerf: k/l

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)