Hello! Welcome to
the KIDDIE LITter box!
The KIDDIE LITter
geocache series
has been voted the July
2009
Cache of the
Month!
NOTE: CACHE NOT AT THE ABOVE
COORDINATES!
Per geocaching.com guidelines, this cache is located within 2
miles of the above location.
All caches in the series which are located within parks have
been registered with and/or placed in accordance with the
guidelines of the governing body of that park. Some caches in this
series are located on park or public property which is surrounded
on most sides by private property. Be sure to avoid trespassing on
private property when accessing them.
KIDDIE LITter
Mega-Puzzle Multi-Cache
Preliminary Cache #2
This is a multi-stage series of puzzle caches, consisting of
nine preliminary caches and a Final Cache ("The Final LITter Box").
Each of the ten caches is listed as a separate cache on
www.geocaching.com. Links to all ten caches can
be found at the bottom of this listing.
Each preliminary cache can be found independently. For each
preliminary cache you find, you will earn access to a jigsaw puzzle
piece. Those nine jigsaw pieces, when put together, form the final
puzzle which, when solved, reveals the location of the Final
Cache.
Good luck!
To earn jigsaw piece #2, follow the following steps:
- Answer the trivia question below. The theme of all the
questions is “Children’s Literature”. (Hence the name of the
cache!)
-
Click this link to access the
puzzle. To view each puzzle, you will need to know the
password—which is the answer to the trivia question. (To open
the puzzles, you will need Adobe Reader, which is already
installed on nearly every computer in existence these days. But
if you happen be one of the three people in the world to not
have it yet, it can be obtained for free at
www.adobe.com.)
Important Disclaimer! |
Downloading files from the
www.keepandshare.com links shown is necessary
to obtain details needed to find this geocache. As the cache owner,
I represent that these files are safe to download, although these
files have not been checked by Groundspeak or by the Geocache
Reviewer for possible malicious content. As a result, downloading
any files from these links is done at your own
risk. |
- Solve the puzzle. The puzzles vary in style and difficulty. The
solution to the puzzle will give you the location of the
preliminary cache.
- Find the preliminary cache. Note that the preliminary caches
only contain logbooks. (However, all the containers are large
enough to hold some items, so if you want to place an item in a
cache, go ahead!) In addition to logging your visit, write down the
password written on the inside cover of the logbook.
-
Click here to access the jigsaw
puzzle piece associated with this cache. The password you
obtained from the cache logbook will allow you to open the
jigsaw piece.
Once you have all nine jigsaw pieces, assemble them to reveal
the final puzzle. Solve the puzzle, and find the Final Cache!
In addition to swag, a logbook, and an FTF prize, the Final
Cache contains completion certificates for a job well done!
To convert your trivia answers into passwords, simply take the
answer to the question, remove any spaces, punctuation,
capitalization, and leading “a”, “an”, or “the”, and spell out any
abbreviations. If the answer has more than one part, list both
parts, without any “and” or anything else between them. For
example, if the two-part answer to a question is “Jan. 1” and “Dec.
31”, the password is “january1december31”. If the answer to a
question is the movie “The Presidio”, the password is
“presidio”.
If the puzzle doesn’t open, it means one of several things:
- You don’t have the right answer to the question!
- You misspelled the password. Obviously, for something like
this, spelling matters. Remember, no spaces or capital letters
should be used.
- If you’re “sure” you have the right answer, and still can’t
open it, send me a message and let me know what happened. If you
can demonstrate that you know the correct answer, I’ll do what I
can to help you.
Got all that? Good! Then without further fanfare,
Here’s the trivia question for this
preliminary cache:
In Eric Hill’s “Spot
the Dog” series of books, we are not specifically told the date of
Spot’s father’s birthday—but in one book, we are given clues which
limit it to 20 possible dates each year. What are the earliest day
(month and date) and latest day (month and date) in the standard
calendar year which could be Spot’s father’s birthday?
You can use www.geocheck.org to verify the locations of all
nine preliminary caches. (The final cache cannot be verified this
way, as the design of the puzzle makes it too prone to iterative
solving if that tool is available.)
Hints:
There are many hints located throughout all these caches—but NOT
necessarily with the preliminary cache you're currently working on!
For example, a hint to the trivia question for KIDDIE LITter #4
might be located with KIDDIE LITter #7, or a hint to the puzzle
solution to KIDDIE LITter #6 might be located with KIDDIE LITter
#1. Therefore, if you need hints to a trivia question, or to any of
the puzzles or caches, your best approach may be to try working on
a different preliminary cache. Hints are not hidden; they are all
located in one of these three locations:
- The second page of puzzle pdf files
- The second page of jigsaw piece pdf files
- www.geocheck.org successful puzzle solution
messages
GOOD LUCK!!!
Approximate cache publishing dates |
Cache |
Cache Name |
Date |
GC1QP7X |
KIDDIE LITter #1 |
May 29 |
GC1QQA7 |
KIDDIE LITter #2 |
June 1 |
GC1QRF8 |
KIDDIE LITter #3 |
June 3 |
GC1QRFP |
KIDDIE LITter #4 |
June 5 |
GC1QRG0 |
KIDDIE LITter #5 |
June 8 |
GC1QRG3 |
KIDDIE LITter #6 |
June 10 |
GC1QRG8 |
KIDDIE LITter #7 |
June 12 |
GC1QRG9 |
KIDDIE LITter #8 |
June 15 |
GC1QRGC |
KIDDIE LITter #9 |
June 17 |
GC1R06C |
KIDDIE LITter--The Final LITter Box |
June 17 |