Beginner

[madamlee2000]

Hi All,

 

I'm extremely new to this, and a friend has suggested I find a Puzzle Cache in Tasmania (Devonport Area) to be exact, work it out and provide him with the co-ordinates. It may be quite a difficult task for a learner, but can anybody please assist me on finding a so called Puzzle Cache.

 

Many Thanks,

Edited December 24, 2011 by madamlee2000

[+The Blorenges]

Hi, welcome...

 

Does he want some specific puzzle cache solved? Or does he just want you to do the puzzling of any puzzle cache so that he can then go and find it, sign the log book and claim a smiley?

 

Do you know how to search for caches in a specific part of the world?

 

MrsB

[+paleolith]

Also note that there are many kinds of puzzle caches. Clearly what you are looking for is something you can work out at your desk. Many of these are just the traditional kinds of puzzles you'll find in puzzle books or cryptography games. Others involve information hidden on the web page or in images. Still others require you to work them out in the field.

 

Why does "he" want you to provide him with the coordinates after you solve the puzzle? (Is he by any chance having trouble solving this puzzle himself? )

 

If geocaching is what you're interested in, the usual way to start is by finding some traditional caches rather than puzzle caches. To log a find on a puzzle cache, you still have to find the physical cache and sign the log after solving the puzzle.

 

Edward

[+NYPaddleCacher]

A puzzle cache is also called a "unknown" or (now the preferred term) a "mystery" cache. Whatever you call it, when viewing a list of geocaches they are identified using a blue question mark icon.

 

Groundspeak recently changed the preferred term from "unknown" to "mystery" however the Advanced Search page (you can find it from the "Hide and Seek a Cache" page still uses "Unknown". As a previous poster suggested puzzle caches can come in all sorts of varieties from fairly simple puzzles which only require you to answer some questions from easily findable information on the net (often related to a theme) to devious and very difficult puzzles involving ciphers that can take a very long time to solve (I've done one that took me over a month to solve).

 

In any case, the published coordinates for the will almost always not be the location of the final container and in many cases have nothing to do with the final location other than they're typically within 2 miles of the final location where the cache is hidden.