Solving puzzles - parmstro's geocaching puzzle pages. If you have any hints/tips you want to share that I have missed - please feel free to contact me via the guestbook. Or use my new page on Facebook. This site and the Facebook page are for generic puzzle solving - for help on individual caches you can always try here. Also please try the links on the left - hover over them and you will find lots of interesting pages to explore. This is not meant to be an exhaustive guide, as there are many puzzles I have not managed to solve. The biggest totally free game fix & trainer library online for PC & Console Games I have been using the free version for almost year to help track my recovery after suffering a subarachnoid brain haemorrhage last June. Some of the tasks/games are. Castleton based in India is a leading accounting & bookkeeping company specialising in sage bookkeeping and accounting outsourcing services for UK & European clients. If after tonight's episode, you didn't join me on #TeamMellie, then we (and Olivia) have problems. Alphabetical List of Games: PC Cracked; Return to Alphabetical List Index # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z However looking at the new puzzles that come out they all fall into one of the categories outlined on this site, so this should allow you to get started on some caches that you may have ignored in the past, or have been frustrated by. I have also many people confirm that this site works!!!! This weekend missjunebug got a tip from a dear friend (Thanks, KH!) about another way to use her online time well. IT was my own stupid fault, really. Setting up my sit-down chat with the Real Houswives of Melbourne, I was offered plenty of chances to make things easy on myself. Marcy’s Diner owner, parent of fussy child continue online feud. Tara Carson, the mother of a 21-month-old girl whose screams drew the anger of the owner. As an aside I have solved about 6. I would claim that it gives me a reasonable breath of knowledge and experience!! Puzzle caches are one particulartype of geocache. Whereas a traditional cache will give you the coordinates and off you go, with a puzzle cache you have to work out the coordinates first from the information provided. Puzzle caches show a set of coordinates, but these are not (normally) where the cache is hidden. They are known in the trade as dummy coordinates and may be totally random or may be a clue to the theme of the cache. Fundamentally you are trying to find the real coordinates and hence you need to generate a string of numbers. Coordinates round here (Tadworth in Surrey) are of the form N5. W0. 00 fg. hij, so you are trying to find the answers for a to j. Look at the dummy coords, as they are unlikely to be further than 1 or 2 miles from the real coords, and that will give you a good idea of what ab and fg will be. For instance, N5. W0. 00 1. 3. 0. 35 is a roundabout near here, which is not far from a lot of caches. Two miles North and South takes you from N5. N5. 1 1. 8. 5, and two miles East and West takes you from W0. W0. 00 1. 5. 8, so if those were the dummy coordinates, you would have a pretty good idea what range the solution should be in. If the puzzle setter gives you some formulae for working out the coordinates, always look to see if you can make any logical deductions about the numbers. For instance, round here if a puzzle started N X*Y ab. X and Y are likely to be 3 and 1. Similarly W XYZ fg. X,Y and Z are all zero. Normally the puzzle setter is not nearly that generous, but you can quite often work out some numbers / some constraints from the formulae - something I have learnt by bitter experience when I had to change the formulae on one of mine as you could work out the answer from the formulae without solving the puzzle at all. Examples will be based on my caches as I don't think it's fair to give away the answers to other peoples' puzzles. Please note that a lot of my puzzle caches have been kindly adopted by other cachers, but I have included them here as I designed them and placed them. I have also archived a bunch of caches, but have included links to their web pages so you can still see how they work. You should also look at tjapukai's mega- puzzle for a description of all the cache types he has found and set (but his puzzles tend to be a lot harder than mine!), and who did all the tedious work on laying out a taxonomy, which I plagiarised for my list below. Some puzzles fit into more than one category - that is quite normal. There are many ways the puzzle setter can provide information on the cache page to give you clues. They include: The title - often a clue to the theme. The dummy coords - the location may be a clue, or the numbers themselves The text on the page - the words, the layout, different fonts or some lines written in white letters. To check for hidden text, use CTL- A to select all the text on the page. The clue. The picture in the background - see below for details of how to look at this. The cacher's name - often a made- up name to give you a clue. Some people set up puzzle caches where you have to go and find information at various places / find things that match various pictures. Being picky, I would actually say these should be multi- caches and aren't really puzzles, but hey I don't make up the rules. Anyway, the good news is that these are normally straightforward. There is a good starting overview for solving puzzle caches in GC2. WQJ. I also came across this bookmark list from a Puzzle 1. US, which is rather neat as it allows you . What happens is that when you have finished the series you can get the id of a virtual travel bug, and you write your log against that - something you can only do if you have solved all the puzzles and got the id for the TB - neat. I have also just finished a puzzle series in Vancouver, Canada - GC2. Q2. N is the first in the series. It takes you through a series of different types of puzzle cache, which aren't too tricky. The cache owner does like red herrings, though, so be warned!!!
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