What is this site?
This is a series of links to pages, which help you solve our (and other) puzzle caches. As a first tip, have a look at the solving puzzles section, which gives an overview of the whole thing and tells you which category each of our puzzles fits into. Then if you're (really, really) stuck, click on the appropriate link. Have fun!
Please visit the guestbook and let me know what you think of this whole thing - please keep it polite!
I won't add new caches to this list unitl the puzzlers have cracked them.
Please visit the guestbook and let me know what you think of this whole thing - please keep it polite!
I won't add new caches to this list unitl the puzzlers have cracked them.
Puzzle caches - why bother?
When we first started geocaching, puzzle caches were a mystery to us. This was compounded by the fact that round where we live a few of the cachers had set some particularly fiendish puzzles (many of which we still haven't solved). Since then we have also come across some puzzles that are simply too obscure for any normal human being.
We slowly started working our way into some of the easier ones, and began to get the basic hang of them. We then set some puzzles of our own, some of which were designed to annoy the local gurus and prove that we could also set tricky puzzles!!
As we got more into geocaching though, we asked the fundamental questions, which are "why are we doing this, and why are we setting puzzles?" We decided that we do caching to get out in the countryside for nice walks to places we wouldn't have seen otherwise, so city ones and hanging off cliffs/trees are not for us. We also decided to set puzzles that could be solved relatively easily so that other people could enjoy the walks in the countryside that we had prepared.
We therefore started up this site to help people work their way through our puzzle caches and thus allow them to go and grab caches, which they would have otherwise ignored. We honestly can't see the point in setting puzzle caches that hardly anyone can solve, so we keep an active watch on our caches and update the hints for those that haven't been collected for a while. As I write this, 75% of our caches have been found in the last month, and 99% in the last 6 months.
We slowly started working our way into some of the easier ones, and began to get the basic hang of them. We then set some puzzles of our own, some of which were designed to annoy the local gurus and prove that we could also set tricky puzzles!!
As we got more into geocaching though, we asked the fundamental questions, which are "why are we doing this, and why are we setting puzzles?" We decided that we do caching to get out in the countryside for nice walks to places we wouldn't have seen otherwise, so city ones and hanging off cliffs/trees are not for us. We also decided to set puzzles that could be solved relatively easily so that other people could enjoy the walks in the countryside that we had prepared.
We therefore started up this site to help people work their way through our puzzle caches and thus allow them to go and grab caches, which they would have otherwise ignored. We honestly can't see the point in setting puzzle caches that hardly anyone can solve, so we keep an active watch on our caches and update the hints for those that haven't been collected for a while. As I write this, 75% of our caches have been found in the last month, and 99% in the last 6 months.
My book (based on geocaching)
I have published a novel. It's a thriller based on geocaching. It is a thriller based round geocaching, and some of the caches listed here actually feature in the book, so you can follow the trail of clues.
I originally published it using lulu.com, and it's available in print form there and on Amazon. Now it is also available for Kindle on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de.
It's also available as an ebook on Lulu.
