+nfa Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Hi, I'm planning on setting out a 20 stage multi-cache this summer in the Adirondacks, designed something like the game of Clue combined with a CSI episode. It's a murder mystery, and cachers will be helping "investigators" by visiting remote sites to help solve the crime by picking up their case file at the initial stage. There are 6 suspects to interview, 6 weapons to analyze, and 6 sites to investigate...for a total of 216 possible combinations, with only 1 (the correct) solution leading cachers to the final stage. I'm planning on a variety of challenging stages: long hikes, canoe/kayak stages, mountainous stages, underwater stages, etc. I'd like feedback/advice from people who have placed and/or attempted mega-multis. Thanks, nfa-jamie Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 (edited) I don't think its too much AS LONG AS THE CACHE HUNTER KNOWS WHAT HE IS IN FOR!! Don't make it a 5/5 and leave it at that. Make sure the person reading the cache page knows what they're up against! Edit: And list ANY & ALL equipment we might need. Edited May 10, 2005 by tabulator32 Quote Link to comment
+fairly_odd_family Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 sounds like a whole lot of fun! I'd love to have one like this closer to home!! Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 It sounds great. Don't be surprised if you make far more maintenance visits than others make attempts at it. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I've seen two highly successful implementations of the "Clue" concept in my review territory. For the secrets behind a nice, self-contained 13 step multicache, get in touch with kiawa, the owner of The Devil's Panties cache in Erie, PA. (Warning, there is background music on the cache page, but it's perhaps the one cache I've ever reviewed where I actually enjoyed having the music playing.) Or, for owner feedback regarding a no-holds barred, all-out implementation of the concept, contact SerenityNow or Finding Fraggle Rock, co-sponsors of Cloak and Dagger: The Amethyst Murder. This was the most amazing event cache I ever attended. The "Clue" gameboard was the entire town of Medina, Ohio, and its surrounding environs. This was a competitive event where teams raced to find caches that eliminated suspects, weapons, motives, etc., so that they could guess the murderer's identity. More than 200 people attended. Quote Link to comment
YouKnowMe Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I was relieved that you are going to involve all those activities in the legs, instead of 20 tedious steps. The former sounds like fun, the latter sounds like an exercise in stupid. I would put that one on my watch list for sure, and if it were within driving distance would hunt it. Quote Link to comment
monroe gang Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I was relieved that you are going to involve all those activities in the legs, instead of 20 tedious steps. The former sounds like fun, the latter sounds like an exercise in stupid. I would put that one on my watch list for sure, and if it were within driving distance would hunt it. That is exactly what I was thinking as I read the topic, at first I was thinking 20 STEPS holy cow but by the time I finished reading I wanted to try it. Quote Link to comment
+nfa Posted June 9, 2005 Author Share Posted June 9, 2005 (edited) I'm about a week away from placing the stages, and it is shaping up nicely. 2 hydro-caches 2 boating caches 3 mountain/climbing-caches 2 caches requiring human interaction in buildings 2 night caches 1 virtual cache caches of all sizes, from micro to enormous the remainder will be made up of nice hikes to pretty places in the Adirondacks All told, there are 21 stages in the Adirondack Murder Mystery Multi-Cache. It should be available from the beginning of July. nfa-jamie Edited June 9, 2005 by NFA Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 , the latter sounds like an exercise in stupid. Thats mi faverite kind of ecsorsize. Quote Link to comment
+AtoZ Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 WIth a lot of differant types of hides folks will need to team up as is suspect not many individuals will have the skills to do it. WIth 216 combinations your need either a lot of luck or make many visits to many sites. The problem here is the underwater clue maybe the one someone needs but does not have the skill to do. If you were going to do it I would suggest making it accessable to all or not many will do it as it is to daunting. We have a 12 stage, each stage builds on the last, but all are excessibe just hard to go from one to the other. It would but a fun idea but if I need a hot air balloon I guess I would be out of luck. cheers Quote Link to comment
+Joypa Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 (edited) Check out this one:Lafayette Multi Nineteen stages and I loved it! Some very creative stuff in there. If you need ideas, get ahold of Shakey Sam. Edited June 9, 2005 by Joypa Quote Link to comment
+ssprings14 Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 I think it's a great idea we need more exciting and challenging caches. Quote Link to comment
+geospyder Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Just make sure you rate it correctly. I did a cache last month that was rated as a 1/1.5. It ended up having 21 waypoints and over 10 km of walking. It was by far my favorate cache during my trip but I think it was a wee bit underrated Quote Link to comment
+Nurse Dave Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Of course there isn't anything wrong with it, but as you know you'll have a lot less people than normal going after this cache. The other option is to make them 20 seperate caches with a bonus cache were you have to find all the others first. This way if some people don't do boating caches, they can still partake in some of them. Then make a heck of a good cache for the final. Quote Link to comment
+Team Tigger International Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Ok so this one my not be on the scale you are thinking but it was fun none the less... just sorry to see it is disabled at this time .. it was great fun and a challange ! Clue by Warm Fuzzies Star Quote Link to comment
+jimmyreno Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Sounds like a great idea, but you should be prepared to do a lot of cache maintaince. People would reasonably, be unhappy if one of the legs was missing. From what I've seen most people put a cache out and 3 months later they've half forgotten about it. Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 More than 200 people attended. And I was in town and decided not to go. Shame on me. Seriously, though... A large multi that's more ingenious than just changing coords and going to the next stop might be worth it. Quote Link to comment
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