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Some mystery caches are quizes, others are jigsaw puzzles and geoart mysteries where you have to do a really simple puzzle with copying a number from one cache to another to get final coordinates. Instead of clicking on every question mark just to find out that you dont like this type would it be nicer to add a letter to the question mark that indicates what type of puzzle this is? So for jigsaw puzzle it would have a J, quizes get a Q, geoarts get a G and field puzzles get an F. After you log them as found it becomes a normal smiley. What do you think?

Having just done a challenge cache I was thinking about how it would be more fun to have a special icon for challenge caches. Now it's a mystery cache icon but why not a new icon you can select upon? We could make a challenge trail stand out on the map, where for one cache it must've been higher than 2km, the other below 30 meter, one in a tree one on an island etc. What do you think of this?

Yes nothing, but it would help already

This has probably been asked before, but didnt know what to look for. What are the communities' thought on requiring a code to log a geocache as found? So when you place a geocache you can choose to protect the logs with a code which you put in the container then. It's not watertight of course, but it would reduce armchair logging I'd say

pfft I think I forgot mine

oh yes, a mega event! Then we will crush ze imperialist geocachers togezzer! It's perfectly possible to go on holiday to N korea, I know some people who have done it. (well dont know about USA Im talking Netherlands here) Just blend in and dont go waving american flags or stuff like that

Read again totally misunderstood....Im actually suggesting that for the final waypoint you have to go out there and log a cache. Just that you can calculate the coordinates at home, nothing to do with "armchair loggers". Where did you see in how many countries we found caches btw? I was just running a first eartchcache per country macro in GSAK and that one already goes to 10

It always bugs me to that there are no geocaches in.......North Korea! Guess the reason for that is that you are not allowed to participate in this dadgum imperialist game and cant even reach the website! But come on, wouldnt it be great to have a multicache there from which the start point lies in North Korea but you can solve the first waypoint at home! You just have to project xxxx miles and xxx degrees (shooting a rocket there ) and you arrive in Netherlands for the second waypoint. Or you can choose at the first waypoint to what country you want to shoot a rocket and there are different projection options for every country. A few geocachers would need to get together to maintain their own country's physical location and calculate the projection from the startpoint. What do you think? Nice idea? Is this allowed by geocaching rules? Shall we just allow it otherwise and go for it!?

Hi all, We've release Geocaching Pocket Reference to the windows store. You have tools available for solving mystery puzzles at home or in the field. Projection, cross bearings, conversion of coordinates. Codes like braille, dancing man, navy flags etc.....the usual. Decipher of ceasar, vigenere, rotX, the ciphers you see a lot with geocaching. You can keep notes when doing multis and save them to your onedrive or local when there is no internet connection. It's a universal app, so it runs on windows phone, desktop and surface tablets. Just go to the windows store and search for Geocaching Pocket Reference. It's an ongoing project, we will add other ciphers, codes and functionality in future updates. Cheers!

Aha! digital root it is, thanks!

A lot of puzzles exist where you have to count the numeric value of a word. You know, when A=1, B=2 ... Z=26 then AAA becomes 3 and AZ becomes 9. I'm developing an app with which you can do this in the field but I cant find the engles translation for this. In dutch it is stapeltellen, that translates directly into stack counting. So what is the english for this type of counting?

Aaaah that was it, now it's working. TFTH! thanks for the hint

It only shows distance and if it's south not the degrees from the current point. It must be possible but how?

On a Garmion etrex 30, when you want to make the line between two points longer you go in simulation mode to a point so you are there virtually. Then you select with "where to" a second waypoint, you choose non simulated drive, and you have your line. Now in the explanation I have here it says that you then get to see the bearing and the distance....but I dont see this anywhere!? Where can you see the bearing and distance between two points?

That would be fun and I like those types of caches. They are called Challenge Caches. See niraD's post above. Yes it looks a bit like challenges but it's still different. If you can't see the challenge caches you don't know what challenges there are right? I'm more talking about a system where the difficulty of the visible caches on the map will increase once you found enough of the lower difficulty caches. But then couple it to some other property than just T/D rating. For instance once you've done 5 caches requiring projection you can go for projection without being there caches. Once you've done 3 of those you can do cross-bearings. This way every time you log caches some others might (or might not) pop up, it will feel like getting rewarded every time you log On another note: I've been staring at the challenges in my neighborhood since I started caching and they wont be logged for a long time to come, some never as they require you to have found more mysteries than tradis. That would be nice too, have more filters for the map than just the cache type. In one click you see only the challenges, or D5 caches etc. Like a pocket query for the whole world which shows the caches on the map immediately.

I was thinking about the world map and the MANY caches are on there. The map in western world is like one huge ant hill of caches. Wouldn't it be fun to add a property to caches so that they only show up on the map after you have achieved something? So the more you cache the more caches pop up and they gradually become harder. Like a beginner shouldn't do a multi that requires projection or cross bearing, you can do this after you found a lot of caches. What do you think of this system of "earning" more caches on the map the more you do it?