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Dazed&Confused · Kilroy Joined: 07 Nov 2010 Posts: 2

Can anyone help with this puzzle?

**Posted:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:02 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

It's so hard to try and jump in on stuff like this without context.

Most of the time, the part you left out about where you're getting the puzzle from is the one thing that makes it crackable.

That said...
I wonder what the odds are on each of the entries from the first line being the same word ("And") when you look them up as the first word in chapter and verse in Genesis in a KJV Bible

**Posted:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:37 pm

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Dazed&Confused · Kilroy Joined: 07 Nov 2010 Posts: 2

This is the text that comes with the puzzle?

The National Security Agency have a special mission to send you on. Unfortunately, due to the nature of this mission, we are not in a position to publically post the mission's details here.

To receive the brief for the mission, you need to work out the coordinates. To work out the coordinates, you need to solve the puzzle below.

Godspeed,

Frank B. Montgomery
Director General, National Security Agency
Chief of Staff

**Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:16 am

Rogi Ocnorb

There we go. Looks like my initial hunch had merit. All of the verses are in Genesis and all have a number spelled out in them.
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18:26 + 6:10 | 6:19 | 1:9 | 47:2 | 6:19 | 7:10
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18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
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6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
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47:2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
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6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

50 + 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7

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1:31 | 31:38 | 6:10 | 12:4 - 47:2
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1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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31:38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
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6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
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47:2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

6 | 20 | 3 | 75 - 5
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When converted, my best guess is

**Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:49 am

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If treated in the form ## ##.###, it would likely be

**Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:43 am

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Dazed&Confuzed · Greenhorn Joined: 10 Nov 2010 Posts: 3

Yes, it is a geocache!!!

I am planning a trip to Ireland just before the holidays so doing some homework for my trip!!!

Thanks for the help!

I have some more if you are bored!!!

**Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:13 am

Dazed&Confuzed · Greenhorn Joined: 10 Nov 2010 Posts: 3

Ok... So here is the next instalment!!!
Now I am stuck again!!!

The latest puzzle is as follows...

Good Morning operative,
Following on from your previous success with other Government agencies, The Federal Bureau of Investigation hope that you can help us with our latest mission.

Use the information you received at the Top Secret Cache to enable you to get starting coordinates. (The info recieved is... GL4P5XZT)

Until then, there can be no further communication. Over and out,

Bill Bradshaw
Executive Director, FBI
Chief of Staff

Any ideas???

**Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:16 pm

nickball · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Dec 2008 Posts: 5

I think you need to get some information from the first geocache before you'll be able to solve this one.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:18 am

Dazed&Confuzed · Greenhorn Joined: 10 Nov 2010 Posts: 3

Hi Nickball,

Thanks for replying.

The text in bold (GL4P5XZT) is the information that was retrieved from the 1st cache.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:55 am

nickball · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Dec 2008 Posts: 5

I guess this is another geocache location by the same author as Confidential, but as I'm not a premium member of Geocaching.com, I can't see any of his/her caches.

I did search for 'Top secret cache' and found two but they are not in Ireland

The thing is most of the caches start GC not GL, so is it a GEO LOCATION as opposed to a GEO CACHE.

If it is another cache, it should be in the same area as the last one.

Nick

**Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:31 pm

nickball · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Dec 2008 Posts: 5

Look at the top caches in the addy below

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?country_id=7

use dublin in the dropdown State/Province

Probably to do with'Highly Classified' as this one is by the FBI

If it's nothing to do with these, as the first clue had Godspeed, telling you to look in a bible, then possibly this is to do with Ham Radio/CB Radio, as it finishes with Over and Out.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:41 pm

Dopey Dora · Guest

curious

**Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:21 am

hibby · Guest

Geocache puzzle series

**Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:20 pm

kswaby10 · Kilroy Joined: 23 Mar 2011 Posts: 1

Man, I'd love to see more puzzles like this in the future. They're tough.

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