{"id":6537,"date":"2010-11-29T09:14:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T09:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2011-03-24T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:04:32","slug":"another-geocaching-ftf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/11\/another-geocaching-ftf\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Geocaching FTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred on by our success with an FTF on the Gamma puzzle cache, I started work on deciphering another puzzle cache in the series. This time it was the <a title=\"Omega Cache Details\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/seek\/cache_details.aspx?guid=f791fb1c-cb9a-4eec-a68d-01b9aa055d64\">Omega cache<\/a> which had the following clues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is hard, and of course not at the published coords, this puzzle stood uncracked between 1918 and 2010, and the way to encode\/decode was released in a donation to a museum having stood uncracked for nearly 100 years. The creator boasted that it was uncrackable and even professors in cryptography failed to claim a cash reward for decoding it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Omega Cache Clues\" src=\"http:\/\/i971.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae200\/jjp07\/lined_paper_by_LL_stock.jpg\" alt=\"Omega Cache Clues\" width=\"300\" height=\"322\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omega Cache Clues<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The creator also quite rightly pointed out that the mechanism is unbelievably simple and you could back in 1918 put all the parts into a &#8216;encoder&#8217; the size of cigar box. Even so it is surprisingly hard to forcibly decode, or &#8216;brute force&#8217; it, I would recommend not trying that way instead do your research!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finding the way to decipher the code wasn&#8217;t too difficult, and neither was the code itself, but I couldn&#8217;t find an automatic way of decoding it so had to go through each letter one at a time and decode them individually. Never mind, I was ill and didn&#8217;t have much energy so couldn&#8217;t do much else and although decoding this was a little tedious, it was better than working.<\/p>\n<p>I soon had the co-ordinates and then the next day in the snow Morgan and I went out to find it. I had a pretty good idea as to its whereabouts and my hunch was spot on. Another FTF for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred on by our success with an FTF on the Gamma puzzle cache, I started work on deciphering another puzzle cache in the series. 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