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‎Mystery Geocache Ideas

Narniaexpert at 09:00, 6 April 2008

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Many geocaches are hidden in the same sort of fassion in the same sort of arias. These can make geocaching somewhat dull and mundane. If you want to make an interesting and creative geocache here are some good ideas.

====Traditional Geocache Ideas====
* Take a large container and fill it up with tons of micro geocaches, but only one of them has the log book in it so serchers must open up all of them to log it.
* Make a game out of it.
**Title it as Bigger or Better and tell geocachers to replace the one item with something bigger or better so you can see what is the highest cache value that you can get it to be.
* Hide a large container and then when searchers will open it up have a slightly smaller container so that the geocacher must open up a series of geocaches in a matrioshca fashion.
* Forget hiding it near the ground. Try hiding it on the roof of a builiding or in the tree tops.
* Find an abandoned car and have that be the geocache container.
* Make it blend in to the aria
**Mold it in the shape of dog poop.
**Design a birdhouse to hide the geocache in.
* Hide the geocache in a hard to get to location and then design a contraption to retrieve it.
* Hide two geocaches 528 feet from each other in similar suburban arias and then title them both dejavoo.

====Mystery Geocache Ideas====
* Make the geocachers answer trivia questions in order to get the coordinates.
* Hide a locked container so that people can find it, but the only way to open it and sign the log is to solve a puzzle.
* Have a multi stage mystery where geocachers will folow a storyline and solve puzzles to get from one location to the next.
* Have a riddle written on a piece of paper in a container so that geocachers have to use a household chemical to read the note and find the coordinates to the geocache.

====Multi Cache Ideas====
* Theme the mulitcache around a book or movie like the Chronicles of Narnia
* Have people go to a location and then hide 16 containers each with one diget of the final geocache coordinates so that geocachers have to find all 16 containers to get to the final stage.

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 * Make a game out of it.
 **Title it as Bigger or Better and tell geocachers to replace the one item with something bigger or better so you can see what is the highest cache value that you can get it to be.
-* Hide a large container with a slightly smaller container inside it, and a slightly smaller container inside that, and so on, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll matryoshka dolls].
+* Hide a large container with a slightly smaller container inside it, and a slightly smaller container inside that, and so on, like [[Wikipedia:Matryoshka_doll|matryoshka dolls]].
 * Forget hiding it near the ground. Try hiding it on the roof of a building or in the tree tops.
 * Find an abandoned car and have that be the geocache container.

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 * Make a game out of it.
 **Title it as Bigger or Better and tell geocachers to replace the one item with something bigger or better so you can see what is the highest cache value that you can get it to be.
-* Hide a large container with a slightly smaller container inside it, and a slightly smaller container inside that, and so on, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll|matryoshka dolls].
+* Hide a large container with a slightly smaller container inside it, and a slightly smaller container inside that, and so on, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll matryoshka dolls].
 * Forget hiding it near the ground. Try hiding it on the roof of a building or in the tree tops.
 * Find an abandoned car and have that be the geocache container.
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 * Have a multi-stage mystery where geocachers follow a storyline and solve puzzles to get from one location to the next.
 * Have coordinates or clues written in ink/paint that is visible only in UV light, or when (safe) household chemicals are applied. (Note that such caches will require more maintenance than other caches.)
-* If you know flash then try to program a web game that people must play before they can find the geocache. (But be aware that such caches may violate [http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#guide|Groundspeak's guidelines] because they "require the downloading, installing or running of data and/or executables".)
+* If you know flash then try to program a web game that people must play before they can find the geocache. (But be aware that such caches may violate [http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#guide Groundspeak's guidelines] because they "require the downloading, installing or running of data and/or executables".)
 ====Multi-Cache Ideas====
 * Theme the multi-cache around a book or movie like the Chronicles of Narnia
 * Have people go to a location and then hide 12-15 containers, each with one digit of the final geocache coordinates. (The number of containers depends upon the number of digits in your local latitude and longitude.)

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-Many geocaches are hidden in the same sort of fassion in the same sort of arias. These can make geocaching somewhat dull and mundane. If you want to make an interesting and creative geocache here are some good ideas.
+Many geocaches are hidden in similar ways in similar locations.
 ====Traditional Geocache Ideas====
-* Take a large container and fill it up with tons of micro geocaches, but only one of them has the log book in it so serchers must open up all of them to log it.
+* Hide decoy containers. This can be done in ways that are more subtle than simply filling a large container with micro containers, only one of which contains the log.
 * Make a game out of it.
 **Title it as Bigger or Better and tell geocachers to replace the one item with something bigger or better so you can see what is the highest cache value that you can get it to be.
-* Hide a large container and then when searchers will open it up have a slightly smaller container so that the geocacher must open up a series of geocaches in a matrioshca fashion.
+* Hide a large container with a slightly smaller container inside it, and a slightly smaller container inside that, and so on, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll|matryoshka dolls].
-* Forget hiding it near the ground. Try hiding it on the roof of a builiding or in the tree tops.
+* Forget hiding it near the ground. Try hiding it on the roof of a building or in the tree tops.
 * Find an abandoned car and have that be the geocache container.
-* Make it blend in to the aria
+* Make it blend in to the area.
 **Mold it in the shape of dog poop.
-**Design a birdhouse to hide the geocache in.
+**Design a birdhouse to hide the geocache in. (But be sure birds won't try to actually nest in it, and be aware that birdhouses attract the attention of [[muggle]]s and may be vandalized.)
 * Hide the geocache in a hard to get to location and then design a contraption to retrieve it.
-* Hide two geocaches 528 feet from each other in similar suburban arias and then title them both dejavoo.
+* Hide two geocaches 528 feet from each other in similar suburban areas and then title them both "déjà vu".
-====Mystery Geocache Ideas====
+====Puzzle/Mystery Geocache Ideas====
-* Make the geocachers answer trivia questions in order to get the coordinates.
+* Make the geocachers answer trivia questions in order to get the coordinates. (Be aware that the answers to some trivia questions are easy to find online.)
-* Hide a locked container so that people can find it, but the only way to open it and sign the log is to solve a puzzle.
+* Hide a locked container that is easy to find, but which cannot be opened without solving a puzzle.
-* Have a multi stage mystery where geocachers will folow a storyline and solve puzzles to get from one location to the next.
+* Have a multi-stage mystery where geocachers follow a storyline and solve puzzles to get from one location to the next.
-* Have a riddle written on a piece of paper in a container so that geocachers have to use a household chemical to read the note and find the coordinates to the geocache.
+* Have coordinates or clues written in ink/paint that is visible only in UV light, or when (safe) household chemicals are applied. (Note that such caches will require more maintenance than other caches.)
-* If you know flash then try to program a web game that people must play before they can find the geocache.
+* If you know flash then try to program a web game that people must play before they can find the geocache. (But be aware that such caches may violate [http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#guide|Groundspeak's guidelines] because they "require the downloading, installing or running of data and/or executables".)
-====Multi Cache Ideas====
+====Multi-Cache Ideas====
-* Theme the mulitcache around a book or movie like the Chronicles of Narnia
+* Theme the multi-cache around a book or movie like the Chronicles of Narnia
-* Have people go to a location and then hide 16 containers each with one diget of the final geocache coordinates so that geocachers have to find all 16 containers to get to the final stage.
+* Have people go to a location and then hide 12-15 containers, each with one digit of the final geocache coordinates. (The number of containers depends upon the number of digits in your local latitude and longitude.)