How to search for Challenges and Public Bookmarks

[+Mesa0130]

I'm been caching for some time now and still cannot find an easy way to look for Challenges and Public Bookmark List. Can someone please help teach me how to look these up.  Thanks!

[+cerberus1]

IIRC (I don't do them) challenge caches have to include the word "challenge" in them.

Unfortunately there's quite a few with the name, but aren't challenges included in searches.  Many from years before there was such a thing.

 Kinda surprised this cache type isn't listed as one.  So I'm not sure of an "easy" way either...

Thought I remembered something on project-gc.  Not sure,  maybe it's only if your finds meet requirements, but I haven't been there in some time.  Worth a look. 

Edited October 3, 2017 by cerberus1

[+barefootjeff]

9 minutes ago, cerberus1 said:

IIRC (I don't do them) challenge caches have to include the word "challenge" in them.

They also have to be listed as mystery caches. Searching with that combination (mystery with "challenge" in the title) ought to get most of them, but there'll also be false hits from puzzles that just happen to have "challenge" in the name.

[+Mesa0130]

Thanks for these Leads. Do you know how to easily look up list that other people have posted publicly? 

[+barefootjeff]

44 minutes ago, Mesa0130 said:

Thanks for these Leads. Do you know how to easily look up list that other people have posted publicly? 

Players' public lists can be found on their profile and cache pages will show any public lists they're included in, but apart from that I don't know of any "list of lists" that might help.

[+WarNinjas]

I think in the official app and some others you can look for key words.  Just type in "Challenge" and search and it will pull them up.  There might be a couple of false ones that happen to have the word Challenge in the title but you should be able to weed those out pretty easy.

[+HHL]

6 hours ago, Mesa0130 said:

Thanks for these Leads. Do you know how to easily look up list that other people have posted publicly? 

Just do a simple Google search:

Hans

[+Isonzo Karst]

Search - State: Connecticut, Cache Type Mystery, keyword Challenge

typically, once you open a few of these, you'll find someone bookmarking challenges for the state or possibly an area (like all of New England). After a while, you'll come to recognize the username of the person who does a good job of upkeep of those bookmarks.  Some of the older caches may not be challenges by the current usage.

[+thebruce0]

Yeah, it would be a matter of searching. Either with the Advanced Search (I've bookmarked a search for new Challenges in Ontario), or by checking bookmark lists of popular challenge caches to see who's created their own lists.

I have two lists for all of Ontario - one for pre-moratorium challenges, and one for post. Each summarizes the challenges, and the latter includes links to the checkers.

If you've got the patience you could create your own list for the region and help other people