Whether you’re about to find your first geocache or your ten-thousandth, you’ve come to the right place to learn more about the game.
When you see a blue question mark on the map, do you feel curious—or confused? Mystery Caches—also known as Puzzle Caches—can be intimidating. Some puzzles involve codes or ciphers. Others require solving math problems, answering questions, or reviewing the cache page for hidden clues.
Solving puzzle caches takes patience, attention to detail, and a willingness to try different approaches. We asked geocachers to share their best advice for getting started.
The joy of finally finding a well-hidden container. The surprise and delight at encountering a clever gadget cache. The twinkle in a cacher’s eye when signing a logbook. It’s all magic.
We’re bringing back that magical feeling with Maker Magic, a moment of celebration and inspiration for creative cache hides. Will you host a DIY cache building workshop or lead a discussion on crafting the perfect puzzle? The magic is in your hands!
Hiding a geocache just got easier!
With the new coordinate collector in the Geocaching® app (version 10.2.0+ on iOS and version 10.3.0+ on Android), you can collect and name coordinates right in the app. The feature is available now on iOS and will roll out on Android shortly. If you’re on Android and don’t see it yet, it will appear once version 10.3.0 is available to you.
Your saved coordinates automatically sync to your cache owner dashboard on Geocaching.com.
If you looked at the souvenirs page in the Geocaching app and website recently, you may have noticed something new: Treasures milestone souvenirs!
Geocachers can now earn souvenirs for reaching certain milestones for collecting Treasures and completing Treasures collections. In addition to the new souvenirs, we also released a new Treasures collection, Seashells, to help you on your way to achieving these milestones.
Premium members can now access all available Treasure collections, instead of being limited to three active collections. This makes it easier to collect the Treasure you want without switching between collections.
This update introduces two improvements that players specifically requested:
1. Premium members can set up to five priority collections to collect Treasure from first.
2. Premium members can now view which collections a cache qualifies for on cache pages on Geocaching.com.
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