# Another geocaching puzzle

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 2, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-geocaching-puzzle/636471 "2012-10-02T14:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![memahee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@memahee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/memahee)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-geocaching-puzzle/636471/1 "2012-10-02T14:14:10Z")

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Here’s another geocaching puzzle (if somebody can help, it will save my sanity)!

Bogus coordinates: N 42° 00.000 W 071° 00.000

Geocaching guidelines state actual coordinates must be within 2 miles of bogus; creator of puzzle told me it’s approximately 2.1 miles (not much of a difference).

This is the “puzzle” to be decoded into numbers:

ApyLofJw oQQkOsZ

Clues, according to the creator, are:

1. not any type of official code or cipher; it’s something they created them self.
2. “it’s at your fingertips”
3. “After all, the shape of the number is a type of font. Think about what the numbers could mean, what they might stand for.”  
**Note:** still waiting for clarification if they really meant to say “letter” instead of “number”

**Personal observations:**

1. Upper and lower case numbers - meaningful or red herrings?
2. Upper case letters = 7 (number of digits in North coordinates); Lower case letters = 8 (number of digits in West coordinates).
3. First block of letters = 8 (number of digits in West coordinates); Second block of letters = 7 (number of digits in North coordinates).

H E L P!! ~ I need my sanity back! :eek: