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How to Solve a Cemetery Puzzle Geocache Without Actually Visiting The Cemetery

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  Two of my biggest hobbies are geocaching, and genealogy. So when a cemetery puzzle cache comes up, it's always one of my favorites.  And yet, as much as I love searching for both geocaches, and for find a grave entries, driving around a cemetery to look at another cachers families stones, and then doing math and entering new figures into the geocaching app is just not my favorite thing.  In general, I prefer to solve puzzles at home and use geochecker before heading out.  Unless they are really fun field puzzles, like actual PUZZLES ( Mr Data Goes Caching ) at the stages, not just math problems. :-) Most cemetery geocaches can be solved without stepping out my door.   Step One: This applies to most puzzle caches.  If you know the basic location (in this case, exact cemetery) and the puzzle is completely letters, it's pretty quick to solve the first few. Example: AB CD.EFG HIJ KL.MNO AB & HIJ are easy solves.  They are probably the same as the fake coords listed in the puz