+The Bookends Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Posted this in the regional section, but this might be a better place to put it. What are some of the most evil, frustrating, or unsual caches out there. I have an idea for a cache that will frustrate some people to no end, and I want to know how it will rank up with some of the worst out there. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 I'm biased, but after 3 weeks only the first stage of Cinco de Saxo has been found. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 Posted this in the regional section, but this might be a better place to put it. What are some of the most evil, frustrating, or unsual caches out there. I have an idea for a cache that will frustrate some people to no end, and I want to know how it will rank up with some of the worst out there. Is your goal to frustrate Geocachers or to have them find your cache? After a recent disappointing Sunday where I logged six DNFs on caches owned by the same people, I wrote a little "Editorial" about hiding Geocaches. If it is a very clever hide in a unique container, great. But if it is a micro in an area with trees, boulders, lots of other vegetation and poison oak, I for one would like to know that in the first place so I don't have to even start out on a fruitless hunt for a nearly impossible-to-find cache that will result in unnecessary Geotrails over a wide area . . . That said, this cache has stymied many a cacher. Tuscon Thompsen has many very devious puzzle caches and unique hides. Incidentally, he won the Magellan contest in the San Diego area today. Quote Link to comment
twjolson & Kay Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Is your goal to frustrate Geocachers or to have them find your cache? Well, I think that most caches should be regular physical caches, there is something fun in making, or solving, a really hard puzzle cache. Walk to waypoint, find a box under an obvious pile of sticks can get old. We need things like puzzles and cruely hidden caches to make life interesting. I hope to make a puzzle so hard, it's never found. But only one, the rest will just be really really hard Quote Link to comment
+Tharagleb Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Is your goal to frustrate Geocachers or to have them find your cache? Well, I think that most caches should be regular physical caches, there is something fun in making, or solving, a really hard puzzle cache. Walk to waypoint, find a box under an obvious pile of sticks can get old. We need things like puzzles and cruely hidden caches to make life interesting. I hope to make a puzzle so hard, it's never found. But only one, the rest will just be really really hard I have been trying to make a puzzle cache that takes about a month to solve. I have had limited sucess. My first attempt, Candelabra Entry, was solved immediately by numerous cachers because I gave too many clues. My second attempt Each Chord Went Thud was solved within a few days by the FTF. Few have solved it since, even though I added hints. I have mixed feelings about puzzle caches because some people just won't hunt them. I like to do them so I am trying to keep a 50-50 ratio of puzzle to regular caches. I think it would be fairly easy to create a puzzle cache that nobody could solve. Just do a one-time pad cipher with a key based on the third chapter of Moby Dick or something, say every thirteenth letter. Then don't tell them what the key is. Quote Link to comment
+Munin Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 I think it would be fairly easy to create a puzzle cache that nobody could solve. Just do a one-time pad cipher with a key based on the third chapter of Moby Dick or something, say every thirteenth letter. Then don't tell them what the key is. Wait...so my "Triskadecaphobic White Whale #3" puzzle cache isn't "Difficulty 1"? Quote Link to comment
+Fish&Chips Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Well, I think that most caches should be regular physical caches, there is something fun in making, or solving, a really hard puzzle cache. Walk to waypoint, find a box under an obvious pile of sticks can get old. We need things like puzzles and cruely hidden caches to make life interesting.I hope to make a puzzle so hard, it's never found. But only one, the rest will just be really really hard I couldn't agree more, I am already getting tired of the hollowed out tree or the pile of sticks. I have seen some very clever hides that keep me going but I would like to see more fake rocks, and clever hides. I am on the other hand one of those people who avoid puzzle caches simply because I don't want to sit forever and crack a code, but I have seen a few puzzles that are really nice. Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Generally reffered to with great humor as "EVIL" caches we of the AGA have everything from fake leaves to hollowed-out pine cones to fake hickory nuts, tree roots hollowed out for a film can and hollowed-out bolts in practically invisible places - all VERY dificult to find! We also use misdirection and code or puzzle caches, song or book caches (where certain lyrics or passages indicate the location) and more. We have more by far, and as a whole prefer, well-stocked family-friendly traditionals, but there are a number of us that love the EVIL caches! What we have found to work best is a warning on the cache page stating clearly that this is an evil hide and not likely to be found easily. This allows the folks who don't like them to avoid them...that's only fair! Quote Link to comment
tossedsalad Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 If you guys like well hidden caches, check out King Cache. I tried to make it hard to find without being impossible. Also, most are just plain intrigued by the container. There is also an interesting muggle problem. Seems it is across an alley from some muggles who like to sit in their back yard. Although I think they are getting used to the occasional visitor. Quote Link to comment
+Tharagleb Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 I think it would be fairly easy to create a puzzle cache that nobody could solve. Just do a one-time pad cipher with a key based on the third chapter of Moby Dick or something, say every thirteenth letter. Then don't tell them what the key is. Wait...so my "Triskadecaphobic White Whale #3" puzzle cache isn't "Difficulty 1"? Quote Link to comment
+BilboB Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 I am not a big fan of puzzle caches. I hate them actually. Unfortunately, tharagleb lives in the same town as me and his caches GLARE at me when I look at my cache list. I do puzzle caches when I really have to, but I try to avoid them if I can. Quote Link to comment
+Tharagleb Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I am not a big fan of puzzle caches. I hate them actually. Unfortunately, tharagleb lives in the same town as me and his caches GLARE at me when I look at my cache list. I do puzzle caches when I really have to, but I try to avoid them if I can. Uh, okay..., another puzzle cache coming right up! And I'm going to put a White Jeep TB in it too, and I have already picked out the spot. Oh, and did I mention HARD, but no Vigenere this time. Quote Link to comment
+tnfishdaddy Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 I am trying to get one approved right now that is easy to find but then comes the hard part. There are 40 film canisters in it and only one has a log. They must figure out which one has the log, sign it and then they are only half done. They must then take an empty film canister and hide there own cache to actually log the cache. It can not be hid anywhere that there is poison ivy. That is the whole reason behind the cache. I can't get anywhere around it and I figured this would get me and some others some ivy free caches to go find. Quote Link to comment
+CoasterKid Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 I am working on an extremely hard, (on the brink of impossible, but not quite there yet,) multi/puzzle. I won't say much so as not to spoil it for any of you Middle Tennessee cachers reading this, but it envolves a key with multiple letter choices. It will have five stages. Four of them will be Altoids tins, hidden in the most simple and cliche hiding places. The only problem is, there are no coordinates to any stage but the first (and eventually last) stage. The cacher must use hints encrypted with the key I referenced to. These hints won't give coordinates, but will tell the location of the next stage. The fifth stage will most likely be an ammo box. Happy (and very frustrated) Hunting! CoasterKid Quote Link to comment
bogleman Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 My sadistic geocaches. Put a cache in the middle of a swamp with no easy way to get to it and they will come (click on the smile). Put one in the middle of a swamp in a briar patch and they will come....Briar rabbits cache. Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Well, make up your mind! Do you want to know about sadistic, mean, evil or unusual caches? They are entirely different things! Sadistic? Hiding a bison tube in a tree in a park, with the coordinates 50' off, leaving fifty or more trees to search, with the police questioning cachers. That's sadistic! Mean is the micro in the understructure of an abandoned trestle over a river. Evil is best saved for some of the very tough puzzle caches. Unusual? I've got an unusual one, but it's easy. Also found a small statue hidden under camo cloth in a state park. Or a giant bone under a rock overhang. Quote Link to comment
+tands Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 This one seems to acquire its sadism from a likely unrealistic D-rating: The Bus Driver - T of TandS Quote Link to comment
AlphaOp Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Heh, this has given me some ideas for my "The Legend of Max" cache. (Intended to be very difficult.) Quote Link to comment
+ecache Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 None of the previous caches mentioned seem as sadistic as Holy Wastewater! Quote Link to comment
+rjw661 Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 RustyOJunk has one in the Albany, N.Y. area called "Word Search Hell". It consists of 25 micro caches and an ammo box. There's a 5X5 square with coordinates for the micros. Each micro has a letter and a number. When you can spell Rusty you have the right letter/number combination to find the final cache. You may only have to find 5 micros or all 25. How lucky are you? Quote Link to comment
Cruising_Adventuring Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 I am curently (well me and my friends) are making a series of caches called "Mission Impossible? 1,2,3,4,5...and so on. Our recently added cache is VERY difficult to find (Mission Impossible? 2) because our first attempt was found very quickly (Mission Impossible?)...So our goal is to make them progressively harder and more extreme to bring some action to our small mountain town we live in! (check out the logs and comment on what you think about them) Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Before you can torment, you must learn to annoy. Quote Link to comment
ImpalaBob Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 i"ve always admired the cache picture I saw here ...somewhere ... of the office water bottle filled with film canisters with only one canister containing the log. Truely evil !!!!! Koikeeper thought of using dozens of camo painted plastic hanging easter eggs adorning a tree in the woods ... with only one containing the log.. ImpalaBob Quote Link to comment
LgRedneck08 Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 (edited) Ok my Dad (Lt32) and I made a cash out of a 5 gallon water jug and camoed it up and put about 60 little film canisters in it and only ONE had the log in it, and you could only get ONE OUT AT A TIME!!!! Being the person who helped make this i pitty anyone who finds the cash. Talk about frustrating. LOL!!! Heres the Link to the Cash Log http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4c-bafa22e4c2b1 Edited September 3, 2005 by LgRedneck08 Quote Link to comment
+snowfrog Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 A local favorite in my part of Indiana, is a cache in which the owner actually glued a large rock to the lid of a pill bottle.The bottle was then slid inside a frog hole of the same diameter and along a creek about a foot from the waters edge so that only the rock shows amongst many others,quite clever actually. It has even been flooded over many times but has always held up OK and avoided being washed away.Of course many NF's are posted but many manage to get it after mutiple trips. Quote Link to comment
+nfa Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Adirondack Murder Mystery 21 stages of intense multi-cache. This cache takes the geocacher through some of the toughest terrain the adks has to offer...more than 10 miles of hiking, steep climbs, bushwhacks, underwater stages, backcountry paddling, etc. nfa-jamie Quote Link to comment
+ZingerHead Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Don't Do This Cache! Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Digging for the Gold... Only a few people have located this cache of mine, despite there being two others nearby which have many finds. I assume this is because they haven't figured it out. Two of the finders figured it out accidentally, and two others required some additional help. Quote Link to comment
+ODragon Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 How about a mystery cache so exciting and difficult it has it's own trailer. Choreographed Chaos Quote Link to comment
+TeamTalan Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Just about any cache created by a fellow named Vargseld! would be considered a sadistic cache. Quote Link to comment
Bjornian Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 I'm a moron. So I can't figure out even the easiest cache. Heck it took me several weeks to find blue bridge. I still haven't found Dunmore MBT. I have never done a puzzle cache (I am not good at puzzles). I have a dream to make a puzzle cache for a person like me, but that won't be till I move. NO ONE wil lget the puzzle w/o being really really really well educated. Quote Link to comment
+Tsmola Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 good lord, read the logs for Holy Wastewater, no way I'd ever try that one, ewwwwwwwwwwww Quote Link to comment
+Kit Fox Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 (edited) Here is my contribution to sadistic caches Phobia During the wet season, the tunnel is filled with water. Then you have to scale a steep, slippery slope, to be rewarded with a view like this http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/a74be7c5-...22b4d3ebf4d.jpg Edited October 28, 2005 by Kit Fox Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Here is my contribution to sadistic caches Phobia..... Kit, this looks great! Thanks for the link! Our team's contributions to the world of sick caches are as follows: Psycho Urban Cache #2 - Dismal, Dirty and Tough GCQ91VPsycho Urban Cache #3 - Bowels of the City GCQ91YPsycho Urban Cache #4 - Where is Padre Pio? GCQ969Psycho Urban Cache #6 - Downtown Wuthering Heights GCQABVPsycho Urban Cache #7 - A Good Day to Die GCQHBHPsycho Backcountry Cache #3 - Bitch Creek Crossing GCQNN5Psycho Backcountry Cache #4 - High Country Cave GCQNT7 Quote Link to comment
+lpyankeefan Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 Hey Vinny! Me and the other guys in Team Psycho LAUGH at your pathetic attempts at so called Psycho Urban Caches! HA! We sneer at you, taunt you .....OH YEAH! When you putting some more out? We're going through withdrawl. We've actually resorted to doing regular 1/1's For everyone else the above was meant tongue in cheek. We've had FUN doing Vinny's caches. Oh Yeah! I've got FTF on 6 of the 7 Psycho Urban Caches in Frederick. Time for another one. Larry (lpyankeefan) Quote Link to comment
+PT_Tex Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 This may not be the same subject, but it is still sadistic. We has someone that goes around killing caches. They steal mostly ammo boxes and leave a note with a red X on it. Does this happen in other places and what can be done about it. Quote Link to comment
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