GeoCashing.com Admins Need Help

[+Team NightStalker]

Ok here is the deal. i have 5 micros hidded and with each contains a letter to be made into a 5 letter word. so as this point i have 5 micro traditional caches. got me so far?

 

now here is the major question:

 

The final cache is a HUGE ammo box that is LOCKED with a custom padlock. Get it yet the 5 letters will unlock this cache. it is not impossible to crack the code on the lock with out the five letters but they would help. Now how would i do this cache? Traditional? Multi? mystery? and can i do it this way? and if multi or mystery how would i list the other caches as waypoints? wouldn't that cause a conflict in the system?

 

Thanks. i have been working MONTHS on this one.

Here is the link to the descriptions i have created http://www.geocachingoutlet.com/hunts/

 

Thanks in advanced.

[+huskerrich2000]

the main cache would be a mystery, because finding the micros is essential to finding the cache. List the micros as traditionals. Put in the description of each that they are related.

[+Miragee]

I agree. This cache involves finding seven other caches, which are Traditional caches, in order to get the information to solve the puzzle.

 

The final is listed as a Puzzle.

[Keystone]

Not enough facts are presented.

 

If the clue micros are hidden in close proximity to the final ammo can, then the guidelines point towards combining them into one big multicache. See the second part of the cache saturation guideline.

 

If the clue micros are scattered around town and stand on their own as independent geocaches, then they would be listed separately as traditional caches, and the final ammo box would be listed separately as a mystery/unknown/puzzle cache.

[+Renegade Knight]

You can split this either way.

 

It's a puzzle cache. BUT since you also visit 5 legs which would make it a multi cache even if each of the 5 legs were stand alone.

 

You can go either way.

 

I see no need to confuse the world with 1 multi cache over 5 regular and 1 puzzle/multy. Either way locks up just as much ground. But the latter at least locals can see the caches foot print.

[+TrailGators]

You can split this either way.

 

It's a puzzle cache. BUT since you also visit 5 legs which would make it a multi cache even if each of the 5 legs were stand alone.

 

You can go either way.

 

I see no need to confuse the world with 1 multi cache over 5 regular and 1 puzzle/multy. Either way locks up just as much ground. But the latter at least locals can see the caches foot print.

I agree. Also an advantage of classifying it as a multi is that a lot of people ignore puzzle caches. Edited April 7, 2007 by TrailGators

[+Team NightStalker]

You can split this either way.

 

It's a puzzle cache. BUT since you also visit 5 legs which would make it a multi cache even if each of the 5 legs were stand alone.

 

You can go either way.

 

I see no need to confuse the world with 1 multi cache over 5 regular and 1 puzzle/multy. Either way locks up just as much ground. But the latter at least locals can see the caches foot print.

I agree. Also an advantage of classifying it as a multi is that a lot of people ignore puzzle caches.

 

so if i list is as a multi how do i encorporate all the traditional caches? just in the discription of the main cache? i just don't want all this work to go to waste. if all 6 do not get published around the same time then what sense would that be. do you know what i mean? i have 3 in place as traditionals going out to place 2 more and then the MAIN cache. Hope this all makes sense.

 

and yes all 5 legs are scattered about town.

Edited April 7, 2007 by Team NightStalker

[Keystone]

I wouldn't fret and worry as much as you seem to be doing. This is a very common hiding technique.

 

Submit all 6 caches at the same time, and in your reviewer note, ask that they all be published at the same time, or to hold up all of them if there is an issue with any of them.

 

Write up traditional cache page descriptions for each clue micro. Indicate on the cache page that it is one of the caches necessary to find the final puzzle cache.

 

Similarly, in the description for the final puzzle cache, explain that it can only be found by first obtaining the clues located in the clue caches, and give their names.

 

Once you've created all the cache pages, you'll have GC numbers and URL's and you can edit the cache pages to provide hyperlinks to the other caches in the series.

 

Maybe some folks can help out the OP with links to some good examples in their local area?

[+Team NightStalker]

Maybe some folks can help out the OP with links to some good examples in their local area?

 

Links would be COOL.

[+Dgwphotos]

I have one that uses a similar design, although it involves several photo history related questions that need to be answered to get the coords. Fortress of Solitude I highly recommend hyperlinks between the component cache listings. Also, this cache involves finding four other caches around the town to get the numbers to unlock the hiding spot of the cache.

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Excuse me if I am being impertinent, but every time I see this thread, I wrinkle my brow because, while the thread is entitled "Geocashing.com (sic) Admins Need Help", when I read the original post by the OP and the subsequent thread, I cannot see any connection with "geocaching.com administrators need help." Is it just me? Am I having a bad brain day?

[Keystone]

No Vinny, it's not just you. The odd title is what caused me to open the topic. I thought it was another thread about (1) cache reviews are slow, how can I be a cache reviewer, (2) my cache got denied, please give me a reviewer who isn't mentally deficient, or (3) the supply of server hamsters and/or Chemical X is running low.

 

But instead we have a perfectly nice question about how to set up a series of caches. It's a pleasure to help the OP. Keep posting links to nicely done series that end with a mystery/unknown cache.

[+lpyankeefan]

(2) my cache got denied, please give me a reviewer who isn't mentally deficient, or (3) the supply of server hamsters and/or Chemical X is running low.

 

Please let me know the next time you're going to post like this Keystone! I now have to clean my monitor of the beverage I WAS drinking.

 

Be seeing you.

[+legacypac]

Finals to some similar concept caches in the Chilliwack, BC Area. Each links to the daughter caches and vice versa.

 

Something's Fishy: End Of The Line by Chillibusher (GCRP48)

MtnMacs Magical Mystery Marathon - FINAL! by MountainMacs (GCTN3N)

 

Blossom Kingdom - Final by agassiz_angel (GCZ4X5)

 

Valley Decachelon - Final Stage by DocMagoo (GCMEAC)

 

Sorry not sure how to give clickable links here. Some are Puzzle, some Multi. I've even seen them listed as Traditional, but don't recommend it. I would not do yours a one big multi! too much work for one little find icon. good luck

[+Team Laxson]

We placed something similar to what you're describing.

 

TLX Trove

 

Inspired by Wing It's version in Michigan:

Wing It's Trove

[+Arndtwe]

well in my area there is a series of 42 caches that you have to find in order to get the final coords. how this works is, there is game piece in each cache (thier all micros), once you have collected the info you have the coords to the final, which is a puzzle cache.

[+Arndtwe]

well in my area there is a series of 42 caches that you have to find in order to get the final coords. how this works is, there is game piece in each cache (thier all micros), once you have collected the info you have the coords to the final, which is a puzzle cache.