Clever Geocache Names

May 12, 2013

I can not think of any good geocache names. Post them here. Thanks.

3.3k · May 13, 2013

I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc.

4.6k · May 13, 2013

There's at least one existing thread on these forums, maybe more, on the same subject with lots and lots of entertaining replies.

You can find it.

EDIT: That was easy.

http://www.google.com/search?q=funny+cache+names+site%3Agroundspeak.com

Edited May 13, 2013 by Viajero Perdido

3k · May 13, 2013

I can not think of any good geocache names. Post them here. Thanks.

It's been used at least once before, but I always thought that Purple Monkey Dishwasher was a good name for a geocache.

1.1k · May 13, 2013

I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc.

Our son has a hide that was called something else until he actually placed it (the log still has the old name but the change is mentioned on the cache page). Once he got up in the tree to place it, he noticed a sign on a bridge that had cut-out letters. From the cache, the name on the sign was backwards so he used that backwards name for his cache (NUR NEDYAH). Not extremely creative, but it exemplifies the quote above.

May 13, 2013

I use a play on words. One of my caches has a bison tube glued into a drilled hole in an American Bison statue. Bison here are commonly called Buffalo. The cache was then placed on a street called Buffalo Rd. Name of the cache is Two Bison and a Buffalo.

1.1k · May 13, 2013

I use a play on words. One of my caches has a bison tube glued into a drilled hole in an American Bison statue. Bison here are commonly called Buffalo. The cache was then placed on a street called Buffalo Rd. Name of the cache is Two Bison and a Buffalo.

So the statue was part of the cache. When I started reading I thought you just drilled a hole in a park statue. I've been hanging around here too long. Sounds like a cool cache.

May 13, 2013

I've always liked the name of this lame cache I put out. Lä Meássm Icrô

7.9k · May 13, 2013

Clams on Parade.

12v rutabaga.

My first pair of real underwear.

It was either this or wash the car.

Of all the funny names of caches I have found

Jill didn't want to put it here!

always comes to mind.

6.5k · May 13, 2013

You have to follow your own muse. Mine told me to use Speedo Death Ray Holster for a recent hide. :rolleyes:

3.3k · May 13, 2013

I use a play on words. One of my caches has a bison tube glued into a drilled hole in an American Bison statue. Bison here are commonly called Buffalo. The cache was then placed on a street called Buffalo Rd. Name of the cache is Two Bison and a Buffalo.

So the statue was part of the cache. When I started reading I thought you just drilled a hole in a park statue. I've been hanging around here too long. Sounds like a cool cache.

He did - fortunately for him, the reviewer was on his 4th beer & hit "publish"! :laughing:

3.3k · May 13, 2013

I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc.

Our son has a hide that was called something else until he actually placed it (the log still has the old name but the change is mentioned on the cache page). Once he got up in the tree to place it, he noticed a sign on a bridge that had cut-out letters. From the cache, the name on the sign was backwards so he used that backwards name for his cache (NUR NEDYAH). Not extremely creative, but it exemplifies the quote above.

Bravo - for the creative name and the much-needed tree-cache!

5k · May 13, 2013

I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc.

Our son has a hide that was called something else until he actually placed it (the log still has the old name but the change is mentioned on the cache page). Once he got up in the tree to place it, he noticed a sign on a bridge that had cut-out letters. From the cache, the name on the sign was backwards so he used that backwards name for his cache (NUR NEDYAH). Not extremely creative, but it exemplifies the quote above.

One of the more famous caches in LA is "DOOWYLLOH". Guess where it is?

May 13, 2013

I use a play on words. One of my caches has a bison tube glued into a drilled hole in an American Bison statue. Bison here are commonly called Buffalo. The cache was then placed on a street called Buffalo Rd. Name of the cache is Two Bison and a Buffalo.

So the statue was part of the cache. When I started reading I thought you just drilled a hole in a park statue. I've been hanging around here too long. Sounds like a cool cache.

He did - fortunately for him, the reviewer was on his 4th beer & hit "publish"!

I wish. It took three tries to get it published as the first two were to close to a puzzle final. Finally had to solve he puzzle and find the final cache for it.LOL The Bison is a hard rubber one about 3 1/2 inches high and 4 1/2 long with a hole drilled in it's backside.

38.2k · May 14, 2013

I think a "good geocache name" is not something you decide ahead of time. The nature of the cache and its setting will suggest a name, and then you can get clever, make a play on words, a witticism, joke, etc., etc.

I agree. That's how I arrive at the name of most of my caches. And when I'm at a total loss for ideas I either dream up nonsensical names (e.g. "Moose Gills", "The Inflatable Squirrel Carcass", "The Clam With the Golden Arm"), or put my iPod on shuffle and use the first song name that pops up.

3.7k · May 14, 2013

I don't really think you should ask US unless you don't care if the name has any connection to the cache itself. I usually try to name it according to location. If I can work the name of a development, neighborhood, landmark or geographic feature into it in some way I do. It all depends on where it is and the style of hide. A couple of mine are named for something that happens near my hide (trainspotting, soccer, etc.).

May 14, 2013

I was quite pleased with my first cache, it's called Playing in the Sand. It's placed near a sports centre which was built in an old sand quarry. It's a multi so to get the clues you have to walk alongside a soccer pitch ( so they are playing in the sand) then a children's sand pit ( more playing), then to get to the cache you have to climb a really steep sandy slope, and the cache is hidden in a sandy place, so in the end you are playing in the sand.

1.1k · May 15, 2013

I'm sure it's out there, but I haven't seen it yet, and I'm too lazy to do a search just now:

Johnny Cache

5k · May 15, 2013

I'm sure it's out there, but I haven't seen it yet, and I'm too lazy to do a search just now:

Johnny Cache

There are three active caches within 40 miles of me with that name.

3.7k · May 15, 2013

Stumpy :laughing:

10.1k · May 15, 2013

Elvira by the Oak Ridge Reservoir. Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotteburg (which overlooks the Charlotteburg Reservoir). Munchies, a Bear Chew Toy.

May 16, 2013

Most of mine have to do with location, although I have been known to name a few after random wikipedia'd things so I could publish more caches starting with X or Z (letters needed for the alphanumeric challenge that I'd noticed a lack of in my area). For instance, I ran across a restaurant sign "graveyard" out in the country and just named it "the graveyard". Or like others have mentioned, a play on words. Like a cache placed on rainbow circle named somewhere over the rainbow.

May 16, 2013

Last week I was reviewing a caching map and I caught onto why a certain cache was named that way. I never gave it a thought before. It's name:

EVEn EXCHANGE Part Duex (GC3C96W). It's located on the corner of Eve and Exchange Streets.

I had just put the coords in the car nuvi to get there. Didn't pay attention to navigation. I think its clever.

3.8k · May 16, 2013

I used to have a cache named Shrinky Dinks. It was an underwater cache. The reviewer struggled with it but in the end let it be.

May 16, 2013

My cache names and why:

All Hallows Tree - Looked like a tree from a Halloween cartoon with lightning in the background. (ARCHIVED)

Tree Hugger - Its being hugged by a tree.

Above and Beyond - It is connected to a part of a tree that is up and over a creek.

Bean There, Done That - Small coffee container placed in the bushes of a coffee house. (ARCHIVED)

Cheap Seats - Magnetic micro above a beam at the top of a little league baseball stadium.

For Whom The Belle Tolls - Placed on the underside of a metal water meter lid in a neighborhood named "Belle Meade." (ARCHIVED)

Table For 2 - Mirco from For Whom The Belle Tolls, placed inside the hollow metal head of a statue downtown.

Power to the People - Small junction box at the base of a metal telephone pole.

Bob - A water cache suspended by a line... wife named because the original placement (had to move due to nearby cache) was accessible even while pushing our B.O.B. stroller with our daughter inside.

11.9k · May 16, 2013

"Moose Gills", "The Inflatable Squirrel Carcass", "The Clam With the Golden Arm"

Atomic Prancernoid

Automated Jokerizer

Bionic Electromagnetic Retroblender

Bread Zapper-a-tron

Burrito Compumotor

Concrete Sandals

Disco Megamissile

Minty Incinerator

Morse Gyro-stabilized Insulter

Nasal Multiadapter

Raspberry Stinkeranoid

Souffle Cannon

Electrostickpin

Ultrasonic Compurapper

Unstable Cheese

Make your own. Select from dozens of categories.

Edited May 16, 2013 by kunarion

5.3k · May 16, 2013

Several years ago I had one that was a fake bird wired to a tree. It was a puzzle cache. I named it "Pseudo-coo." Can you guess what kind of puzzle it was?

1.1k · May 16, 2013

Several years ago I had one that was a fake bird wired to a tree. It was a puzzle cache. I named it "Pseudo-coo." Can you guess what kind of puzzle it was?

I'm pretty dumb sometimes so I had to look. :laughing: Shark loves these puzzles. Nice.

3k · May 16, 2013

Here's a few more ideas:

Such a Relief

On Course

Warp Speed

Lots of Guns, No Drugs

Change of Heart?

Eye Test

Day in Pictures

Heavens Above!

The Pips Squeak

Ancient Soap

These came from the actual titles of the current articles listed on the "Features" section of today's BBC home page. I just added some capitalization to make the names seem more cache-like.

May 17, 2013

depends on its location, cache type, etc.

July 3, 2013

Thanks everyone

5.6k · July 3, 2013

Inspiration for a cache name can come from many things: The Jester's Car Wash.

1.4k · July 3, 2013

I'm sure it's out there, but I haven't seen it yet, and I'm too lazy to do a search just now:

Johnny Cache

There is someone with this as a user name also. Some of the user names can be as fun as the cache names.

July 7, 2013

This is one of my recent favorites: Five Phalanges to Fix Your Flute

July 7, 2013

Inspiration for a cache name can come from many things: The Jester's Car Wash.

amazing - life is better than fiction !!...congrats on your survival skills and caching aplomb Jester...

for myself, using the first five letters of my last name has not only given me my caching moniker, but also the theme for most of my caches...like others have said, i continue the theme of the location...giving reference to the day God gave us woods to hike in, for the church cache : ON THE THIRD DAY SUCHATRAVEL BUG HOTEL

at local Giant Eagle grocery store: EAGLET MAYBE...NOT SUCHAGIANT & the greatest state collegiate football rivalry: OSU vs Uof M...SUCHABORDER BATTLE

geocaching ROCKS and is very seldom dull...Life is still an adventure...

July 8, 2013

I use to own a cache called, "A Goose by any other Name...".

July 15, 2013

I will do one of several things:

1 Use a theme, and then name the cache according to it. I prefer fantasy novels: I have Lord of the Rings, Abhorsen Triology, Dark Elf Trilogy, etc. These require quite a bit of planning

2. Something about the location:

Bob's Favorite Burger Place was hidden near an In and Out Burger

Lone Tree was hidden near a "long Tree" in the middle of plain visible for miles

3. Occ will name a cash for a local cacher. I named one "Kaboom" for 321kaboom, and he named one "Casino Royale" for me (I like James Bond).

July 15, 2013

Schrödinger's Cache ( a play on "Schrödinger's Cat") and Skinny Sweaty Man come to mind.

3.4k · July 16, 2013

Spur of the moment, but I have one just off Pacific, near a clock.... it's Pacific Caching Time.

3.7k · July 16, 2013

Micro # 1

July 17, 2013

More like Micro # 1,497,221

5.6k · July 17, 2013

More like Micro # 1,497,221

That a whole lot of caches for an owner to maintain! :blink:

July 17, 2013

When in doubt use Monty Python quotes.

I currently have caches named:

Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying

No, It Is The Rabbit

And The Number Of The Counting Shalt Be Three

Black Beast of Aaaargh

Now archived Python Caches:

It's Only A Model

What, Behind The Rabbit?

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

We Already Got One, It's Very Nice

Blue, No Yellow....aaargh

Non-Python named caches I have/had:

Proliferation Antithesis

Football Yucca Canoe

Huge Vulture Eating Stinky Dead Thing

Cheer Up Emo Kid, You're Going Geocaching

Cactus In My Crotch

Mummies of the Insane

I usually don't know the name of the cache when I'm going out to hide one. I let the process and adventure of hiding the cache to dictate the name. Sometimes it comes really easy and sometimes not. And sometimes right after you publish it you say..."That's a stupid name".

3.7k · July 17, 2013

When in doubt use Monty Python quotes.

I currently have caches named:

Ethel The Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying

No, It Is The Rabbit

And The Number Of The Counting Shalt Be Three

Black Beast of Aaaargh

Now archived Python Caches:

It's Only A Model

What, Behind The Rabbit?

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

We Already Got One, It's Very Nice

Blue, No Yellow....aaargh

Non-Python named caches I have/had:

Proliferation Antithesis

Football Yucca Canoe

Huge Vulture Eating Stinky Dead Thing

Cheer Up Emo Kid, You're Going Geocaching

Cactus In My Crotch

Mummies of the Insane

I usually don't know the name of the cache when I'm going out to hide one. I let the process and adventure of hiding the cache to dictate the name. Sometimes it comes really easy and sometimes not. And sometimes right after you publish it you say..."That's a stupid name".

Nice...I like the Pythons.

As for your last statement...very true. One of mine I only named that way so that people would have a "X" cache to use for whatever alphabet challenge came along. True, it does also have to do with crossings & intersections...but it's not even a difficult cache to find.

1.1k · July 17, 2013

That's great, if you ever watched Monty Python. For the majority of us, though ....

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