Puzzle Cache

[+sodapop11]

I submitted a location to hide a cache. Reviewer said I had to move it.  It was too close to the hidden coordinates of a puzzle cache. This peaked my interest as to what could be there. Is there a way to get the cache numbers? Then I can solve the puzzles and find them. 

[+cerberus1]

Maybe kinda basic, but what are the first two puzzle caches nearest your coordinates in a search?  Pick one or do both.

[+TeamRabbitRun]

1 hour ago, sodapop11 said:

I submitted a location to hide a cache. Reviewer said I had to move it.  It was too close to the hidden coordinates of a puzzle cache. This peaked my interest as to what could be there. Is there a way to get the cache numbers? Then I can solve the puzzles and find them. 

 

You can't have the cache IDs, because ANY knowledge related to the puzzle, including relationships between components could be a spoiler.

[+The_Jumping_Pig]

4 hours ago, sodapop11 said:

I submitted a location to hide a cache. Reviewer said I had to move it.  It was too close to the hidden coordinates of a puzzle cache. This peaked my interest as to what could be there. Is there a way to get the cache numbers? Then I can solve the puzzles and find them. 

Solve all the puzzles within 2.1mi from your cache. Hopefully that's not too many. 

[+barefootjeff]

5 hours ago, TeamRabbitRun said:

 

You can't have the cache IDs, because ANY knowledge related to the puzzle, including relationships between components could be a spoiler.

 

Hmm, when one of mine was too close to a puzzle final, the boilerplate reviewer's note included the puzzle cache's GC code:

 

 

That was helpful to know, as it was a puzzle I'd solved and found almost a decade earlier but had forgotten it was on the same hill, and all the maps on the website show found puzzle caches at their bogus coordinates so you can't see where they are once you've found them. You can't even see that they're puzzle caches as they just show as a yellow smiley.

Edited May 29, 2024 by barefootjeff

[+baer2006]

1 hour ago, barefootjeff said:

Hmm, when one of mine was too close to a puzzle final, the boilerplate reviewer's note included the puzzle cache's GC code:

I think that in general, Reviewers do not reveal the GC codes of the conflicting caches. At least that's my experience here in Germany. My guess is that it's done to prevent "battleshipping" notoriously unsolvable puzzles (which are unfortunately a thing around here).

 

I got one interesting exception, though: Some years ago, I wanted to place a cache, and the reviewer's reply was along the lines of "Sorry, but you're too close to the final of GCxxxxx. And you should have known, because you logged the FTF on that cache *LOL* " . Well, that was a bit embarrassing . The cache in question was a multi, and while I of course knew that the stages were in the general area, I had totally misremembered the position of the final (and I had not stored my notes anywhere).

[+Smitherington]

I think you were both given the cache name because you had both found the interfering caches previously.  If you had not found it I don't think they would have clued you in with the cache code.

[+barefootjeff]

5 minutes ago, Smitherington said:

I think you were both given the cache name because you had both found the interfering caches previously.  If you had not found it I don't think they would have clued you in with the cache code.

 

Perhaps, although the second paragraph in the reviewer note on mine says "Please don't ask me where the other cache is or how far away your cache is from this one. I'd suggest going out and finding it or contacting the other cache owner and seeing if they will help you." so I expect the same boilerplate note is used regardless of whether you've found the cache or not. In my case, that find was in 2015 so it would have taken some effort on the reviewer's part to trawl back through all the logs on that cache to see if I'd found it. So maybe it's a regional thing or an individual reviewer's preference.

[+MNTA]

3 hours ago, barefootjeff said:

 

Hmm, when one of mine was too close to a puzzle final, the boilerplate reviewer's note included the puzzle cache's GC code:

 

Had the same experience. Wanted to hide a cache in the park across the street but was blocked. 

 

Unfortunately, I knew from the hint exactly where it was and that night walk to it and found the container partially muggled and notified the CO. Never logged it as I had not solved it.