GC3M9EA Papa Uniform Zulu Zulu Lima Echo
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: zulu113 @ | Hide Date: 05/27/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 57.366 W104° 47.264 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
           

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Here's a quick puzzle that gives a few ideas on how to make your own puzzle caches.

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Geocaching puzzles are some of my favorites. They can be easy
or they can be hard. You never know until you try each one.

There are many techniques that can be used when creating
one. This cache lists a few, and is also a puzzle itself.

Personally, I like cachers to have to think in different ways.
Oh, there’s always Google, but it’s better when one
solves a cache using their wits alone. To that end I
try to make them require a cacher to really think.
Each puzzle should have enough clues that allow someone to
deduce the answer if they pay close enough attention.

Cache puzzles often use various types of bog-standard encryptions.
Only trouble is that with these types, someone can find an
online solver and it will do the work for them. It’s
really not much of a challenge for a solver to
determine the answer that way. Burying hints and making an
individual think in different ways are key. Stretching one’s
neural limits is good! Using the left brain (logic and math)
and the right brain (creativity) make for fun puzzles!
There’s a lot more joy in solving something that
elicits this type of thought pattern. Anyway, that’s my
strategy for making puzzles. I hope you enjoy them!

Congrats to kwbforest for solving and finding this puzzle cache first!

Additional Waypoints

04/15/2019 By chsmathwisch
Visiting from Philadelphia. Had some time before breakfast to wander around the neighborhood. Solved this at home and made the quick find(with the hint). Thanks!

11/07/2018 By Berb57
I thought the puzzle was easy enough. But I got to ground zero and came up empty handed. I had a good half hour search. Had to put on gloves for one of the areas to protect my hands. I read previous notes but nothing helped. I'll have to reach out for a clue and then return.

11/07/2018 By TexDoc56
I was in the area for an event at the library so I grabbed a few in the vicinity.
Easy solve and find.
Cache is in good shape, TFTC

04/09/2018 By MrNoah
I am caching with the mom of the year, Noah's Peeps.
She solved the puzzle and showed me how. I saw the solution too.

It didn't take me long to spot the cache.

04/09/2018 By Noah's Peeps
Day 2 of vacation in beautiful Colorado! Lots of sunshine and no snow!
Solved this one a few weeks ago. I even know the lingo of the title. I use Zulu time at work every night.
The hardest part of this cache was figuring out how to get to it. After finding legal parking, MrNoah found the cache after a brief search.
Thanks for the easy puzzle and the cache.

09/10/2017 By nightfury_viking
Found with maggienicki and jblbl. TFTC. SL.

09/10/2017 By maggienicki
Out with nightfury_viking and jblbl. Great puzzle; jblbl deciphered it but I found the cache. TFTC. SL.

09/10/2017 By jblbl
found with maggienicki and nightfuryviking TFTC