Geocaching is a highly competitive sport, so it's interesting to see how you stack up against your neighbors. I have compiled an all-star puzzle cache finder list, based on the top nine solvers of my 15 favorite puzzle caches
(i.e., of the ones I own). If your name is not among them, don't be discouraged. There is an element of luck
or arbitrariness in the rankings, since some of these caches were archived before some solvers had a chance to
find and log them. Some have solved puzzle caches of mine that I didn't include because I just didn't think
they were hard enough or interesting enough. Even so, all the people in the top nine have logged at least 11 of
these 15 caches (in no particular order):
| Big Liar |
K3 Gang |
Cipher Sites |
Cipher Creek |
Slobinovich |
| Circular Reasoning |
Love |
Sleb Slob |
Chinese Radicals |
Tue Zane |
| The Sentence |
Undecimal |
Elliptical Reasoning |
Black Adder |
Operation Futari |
I know Operation Futari is not a puzzle cache, but in its original form was a difficult multi, and, I think, my
best overall cache. Some of the people on my list found it after it was reduced to a regular story cache, but
I won't penalize them for that. I did not include The Ultimate Multipuzzlecache because PhilippeGPS was really
the creative genius behind that one, although I did contribute here and there.
To find this cache you must identify the geocachers on the All-Star Rat puzzle roster - by solving a puzzle, of
course. Below are anagrams of their names. There are at least two geocachers' names within each anagram; you
must extract them all. Anagram the phrase correctly, order the names as indicated, and then follow the instruction.
1) peppy girl skip ham
Alphabetical order. A = position of the l. B = position of the m.
2) poke a bipolar tummy
Alphabetical order. C = length of the first name - length of last name
3) daffy janitor teams
Reverse alphabetical order. D = position of the y. E = number of syllables in last name
4) amoeba yolk oatmeal
Alphabetical order. F = the position of the first o. G = number of letters that come after the last e.
H = A-D.
The cache is at: N37 2C.ABD W122 0E.FHG
The cache is the same type of container as used at Undecimal. There's an emergency pencil inside, but you'd
be better off to bring a pen. Inside is a chart showing who has found which caches, including everybody who has
solved at least 3 of these 15. If you're not competitive, you don't have to look. If I have any data about you
wrong, let me know of the error. I expect to update this chart from time to time. I notice that there are three
people who have found 14 of the 15 caches. Each one has failed to find a different cache. If they all trade hints,
each can find his final Rat puzzle cache. I won't mind. Geocaching is also a cooperative sport.