Looking for advice, suggestions on my idea. As a newbie, I'm looking for pointers and ways to improve my idea to make it an enjoyable experience. Is it easy to follow/understand?
As a fan of the game poker and newly excited about geocaching I have the following idea for a cache/poker experience that I hope would be entertaining to everyone. Note, no actual gambling involved. We do this as a family experience and would like this to be seen in that respect.
KINDER POKER
Based on the card game, Five-Card Stud. The caches will be listed on geocaching.com as five different Multi-Caches. The first part being the cache One through five and the second part being cache six (Casino/House). By listing them as five seperate caches each individual person could decide what they felt was the best order to try and locate them in. All five caches would have to be located before the final cache six could be found. The caches will be located in one 288-acre park in Maryland. The goal will be an all-hiking experience that would take approximately three to four hours to complete. You would be requested to bring one poker chip (from any actual casino or a personal one) as your trinket.
After locating cache one through five you would possess five sealed envelopes containing one card each to make up your hand of five cards. In addition on each envelope would be part of the necessary coordinate to locate cache six.
Once locating cache six (Casino/House) you would compare your hand against the dealer’s (House) hand and the “Top Player’s Hand.” There will be a hand-ranking chart in the cache for those unfamiliar with the game. If your hand beats the dealer’s you keep your chip and take one “Custom House Chip.” If you lose, you place your chip in the “Top Hand” container for the eventual high hand winners. If you beat the "Top Hand" you take a chip left by a previous player in addition to the "Custom House Chip." In addition if you lose you may still take a “Custom House Chip” as a thank-you and memory for playing my poker cache.
As geocaching is a “family” sport in my house and my kids love to go along I will provide an area in cache six (Casino/House) for swag for the kids to trade.
Six Caches:
1. Hearts
2. Diamonds
3. Spades
4. Clubs
5. Joker
6. Casino/House
Cache One thru Five Contain:
Size: Small
Difficulty Rating: to be determined
Terrain Rating: to be determined
Logbook / Pencil
Deck of cards in individual sealed envelopes
Each envelope, from each cache will be marked with part of the coordinate to locate the Casino/House cache. You will need one envelope from all five caches to have the complete coordinates to locate cache Six (Casino/House).
FTF Prize (Poker related)
Cache Six Contains:
Size: Large
Difficulty Rating: to be determined
Terrain Rating: to be determined
Logbook / Pencil
The dealer’s (House) hand
The top player’s hand to date
Swag
Custom House Poker Chip
“Top Hand” poker chip, stocked by losers chips (with initial supply from me)
Trade / Kid Swag
Place for return cards
FTF Prize (Poker related)