5.0 Difficulty Ideas

[+brekkcaching123]

I'm looking at hiding a power trail of 5.0 caches. I'm looking for ideas on hiding 5.0 caches. I've found a few and have some ideas but I'm looking for some ideas so I can make a variety of caches instead of just 1 or 2 types of 5.0 caches.

[+brekkcaching123]

Also if anyone has any ideas for a gadget cache that isn't too complicated let me know as well!

[+kunarion]

9 minutes ago, brekkcaching123 said:

Also if anyone has any ideas for a gadget cache that isn't too complicated let me know as well!

 

The "gadget" I've used in my gadget caches is a combination lock (on a birdhouse hinged door), with various types of puzzles to obtain the combination.  A surprising number of Geocachers are very challenged by a combination lock.

[+brekkcaching123]

2 minutes ago, kunarion said:

 

The "gadget" I've used in my gadget caches is a combination lock (on a birdhouse hinged door), with various types of puzzles to obtain the combination.  A surprising number of Geocachers are very challenged by a combination lock.

Thanks for the idea! That could be very useful. I'm into puzzle caches so maybe a tricky field puzzle to figure out the combination.

[+barefootjeff]

I'm not sure if this would be classed as a "gadget", as it's purely mechanical, but on a recent hide I used this kangaroo jack-in-the-box toy with the logbook in the kangaroo's pouch:

 

 

It plays "pop goes the weasel" as you wind the handle, then on the "pop" note it pops open. I included laminated instructions for resetting it on the inside of the lid.

 

It hasn't been very popular, with only one visit since it was published in mid February, a father and adult daughter team claiming joint FTF, but that might be more due to its quite ridiculous hiding place (the cache, a QR-based puzzle, is called Quite Ridiculous) than the cache itself. At least if it doesn't get any more finds I won't have to worry about it not being reset properly.

Edited April 18 by barefootjeff

[+niraD]

4 hours ago, brekkcaching123 said:

I'm looking for some ideas so I can make a variety of caches instead of just 1 or 2 types of 5.0 caches.

Most of the D5 caches that I've found either required "specialized knowledge, skills, [and/or] tools" to solve, or required "specialized [...] tools" to access the cache (e.g., elevated caches where the CO expected people to retrieve the cache with a long pole rather than by climbing to the cache location). Actually, most of them were puzzle caches that were specifically designed to be solved by a team of people working together, as part of Venona's annual "ACTIVITIES", back before Venona's retirement.

[+brekkcaching123]

16 hours ago, niraD said:

Most of the D5 caches that I've found either required "specialized knowledge, skills, [and/or] tools" to solve, or required "specialized [...] tools" to access the cache (e.g., elevated caches where the CO expected people to retrieve the cache with a long pole rather than by climbing to the cache location). Actually, most of them were puzzle caches that were specifically designed to be solved by a team of people working together, as part of Venona's annual "ACTIVITIES", back before Venona's retirement.

I've got a few of 5.0 difficulty puzzles and I currently have 1 5.0 difficulty hide. Rock flipping😂Probably not going to hide another one, those are tricky to find even as the CO. Thanks for the ideas. A cache that requires a special tool could be pretty nice. 

[+brekkcaching123]

19 hours ago, barefootjeff said:

I'm not sure if this would be classed as a "gadget", as it's purely mechanical, but on a recent hide I used this kangaroo jack-in-the-box toy with the logbook in the kangaroo's pouch:

 

 

It plays "pop goes the weasel" as you wind the handle, then on the "pop" note it pops open. I included laminated instructions for resetting it on the inside of the lid.

 

Thanks, that's a good idea! I live close to BYU Idaho and we have 100s of cachers from BYU-I find my caches, so that could be nice for a popular cache!