GC5JKK9 - Which I See Before Me
By: Smashing Ground
1. Here is the puzzle.
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain
2. Solve the puzzle.
Analysis: So the first thing I saw when I looked at this was WORDS of some kind. Words spelled out in some kind of funky font, or icon-substitution.
The words were organized into two groups, so I assumed the top group was for the North Coordinate and the bottom group for the West coordinate. Then I noticed the poem in the middle, and knew it had to mean something. Dagger, dagger, dagger. OK - I googled "Dagger Font". In short order, I came up with this website. BINGO!
From this point forward, it's just substitution.
becomes
F O U R T W O F I V E E I G H T
Continue the dagger-font substitution to give you the full solution:
Final Coordinates: N 42 58.749 W 089 22.198
Google Maps - verify solved coordinates
Happy Caching!
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