Deviousness

[enitharmon]

Now that I have ten caches behind me I feel entitled to place one.

 

The first will be fairly straightforward, I think, but I'm already planning a subsequent multi cache and I'm hoping it will be challenging.

 

Are there guidelines for multis? Is it, for example, necessary that one can reasonably expect to progress from waypoint to waypoint? Or is it reasonable, as I intend, to require that the clue at one waypoint will require the searcher to go away and do some research? Provided of course that this is reflected in the cache difficulty and a warning is provided?

 

Rosie

[+Pengy&Tigger]

I've seen plenty of caches where you need to go away and solve a puzzle, for example, before being able to find the next stage. I think it's perfectly acceptable to do that with a multi as long as you make people aware that they can't to it in one visit.

 

T

[enitharmon]

Thanks Tigger!

 

I have to confess that I'm already a bit bored with the ammo-box-under-a-pile-of-twigs kind of cache, though I suppose these are great for young families.

 

I want something a bit meatier. Do others feel the same way?

 

Rosie

[+Pengy&Tigger]

I think it would be boring if all caches were the same. It's good to have a mix of traditional/micro/puzzle/multi etc, especially something to get your teeth into once in a while.

[+dogastus]

I do enjoy doing puzzle caches, and the couple I have hidden seem to be quite popular (see them from my profile if you want to see the details).

 

I think it makes the cache interesting if there are intermediate puzzles to solve. Bear in mind that this style will probably reduce the number of visitors a bit. This is, obviously, because they might have travelled a long way to do the cache. Travelling a long way once might be acceptable to people, but having to travel a long way more than once might put people off.

 

My personal preference is to have a puzzle that has to be solved before you set out and then you find the cache. Another style I like is where you have puzzles in caches, but they take the form that are solvable with a little bit of thought without having to return home.

[+QDman]

I love puzzle caches. I like to solve and find, I like to create and place. OTOH, Once I leave the house, I want to find caches. I probably wouldn't search for a cache that was designed to require multiple trips. I already make enough return trips to regular caches!

[+paul.blitz]

One of my caches, which seem popular, is a multi. It's helped by the chain of caches being in a lovely location, but what I've done is have various different sizes of cache for different parts... so theres a couple of small tupperware boxes, one "sandwich sized" tupperware box, a micro, plus the final ammo box.

 

I kinda hope that the variety makes it a bit more fun.

 

One of the problems of making a cache "more challenging" is that fewer people will visit your cache, and thus miss out on the lovely location where you placed it.

 

Also bear in mind that its nice if the cache locations, even if themselves a bit "exposed" have a place nearby where cachers can hide away from the muggles for a few minutes.

 

Paul

[+rutson]

I think all caches should be very easy, straightforward and no puzzles

[+alma]

I think all caches should be very easy, straightforward and no puzzles

amen

[Sparticus]

I think all caches should be very easy, straightforward and no puzzles

amen

Ditto

 

I think there is a place for all kinds of caches. The only problem is when an area has multis in it, without the tradition cache box.

 

The reason I say this is because people who have cached for a number of years, like myself, have to travel quite some distances to bag caches. Unless there is a fantastic multi then I tend to bypass it for the more tradtional cache. I find variety is better than a long multi. It's not just the numbers, it's about getting out and seeing different caches and experiencing as much as I can before setting off home.

 

I do like some multis, but I have to admit I don't tend to do them, which, I feel for me, is a bit of a waste. I'd much rather be doing trads than multi's.

Edited May 29, 2005 by Sparticus

[enitharmon]

I think all caches should be very easy, straightforward and no puzzles

Well, that's today's world for you!

 

I placed one anyway. I'm not going to plug it or say where it is, but I think it's nicely hidden, takes you to a lovely, unexpected and comparatively unfrequented spot, and it has no puzzles.

 

The next one, however...

Edited May 29, 2005 by enitharmon

[+steviep]

I think all caches should be very easy, straightforward and no puzzles

pardon Ian did I read that

 

Take a look at rutson's cache's if you want to know what devious means.

 

They are good though and well worth the effort

[+Jan and the Percey Boys]

I think all caches should be very easy, straightforward and no puzzles

What with the clures decrypted into swedish!!!

[+rutson]

I think all caches should be very easy, straightforward and no puzzles

pardon Ian did I read that

 

Take a look at rutson's cache's if you want to know what devious means.

 

They are good though and well worth the effort

/me chuckles quietly at all the srrious replies

[+Pengy&Tigger]

With all that thinking time you`ve had recently Ian, I bet your next cache is going to be a bugger to do.

 

Come to think of it, we`re about due some more brain scratchers, now where did I put the plaster of paris, and mold making kit.

 

Pengy

[+powerbook_fanatic]

we`re about due some more brain scratchers, now where did I put the plaster of paris, and mold making kit.

Now THAT made the mind boggle - scratching the brain with plaster of Paris ...

 

Nearly as much as the impossible for me eye bending Magic Eye one of yours ...

[+walkergeoff and wife]

I have to confess that I'm already a bit bored with the ammo-box-under-a-pile-of-twigs kind of cache, though I suppose these are great for young families.

I am more concerned that the cache be placed somewhere worth visiting, and somewhere which I either would not have known about, or if I knew about it, not have visited, than whether it is just an ammo box, or something meatier.

 

If a simple cache achieves this, then fine. If a puzzle, or difficult multi achieves this, then fine.