When this cache was first set up by LouiseAnn in 2013, you needed to travel around the suburbs of Melbourne visiting 6 caches to collect the necessary clues to solve the murder. Over time, the maintenance of those caches became a major headache and it was looking like the whole series would be archived. Then in 2019, Groundspeak made Adventure Labs available on a selected basis and I was offered the opportunity to create an Adventure.
Setting up an Adventure as the way of finding the clues to solve the murder provided an excellent opportunity to keep this series going as this Adventure still requires you to take a 50km drive around the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne to collect the necessary clues but, most importantly, removes the needs to maintain 6 other caches.
If you are not familiar with an Adventure Lab, you will discover that it is similar to a Wherigo cache but with a couple of important differences. One is that is run on a specific Adventure Lab app that runs on a smart phone so you will need to download it before you can begin (search for Adventure Lab in the Apple AppStore or in GooglePlay). The other significant difference is that you need to be on-line while you are using the app.
To find this cache you need to collect the clues from the Cluedo Adventure that you will find in the Adventure Lab app. Specifically you will need to visit 5 locations (it's not 6 because I was limited to a maximum of 5) to collect the clues about who is innocent, what weapons weren't used and the rooms where the murder didn't happen... just like the original board game. Once you have all the clues you will be able to deduce the who, where and with what and then construct co-ordinates using the tables below:
| People |
| Rev. Green |
S**° 5*.*4* E***° 1*.*3* |
| Col. Mustard |
S**° 5*.*2* E***° 1*.*4* |
| Mrs. Peacock |
S**° 5*.*6* E***° 1*.*8* |
| Prof. Plum |
S**° 5*.*9* E***° 1*.*6* |
| Miss. Scarlet |
S**° 5*.*0* E***° 1*.*9* |
| Mrs. White |
S**° 5*.*3* E***° 1*.*3* |
| Room |
| ballroom |
S37° **.4** E145° **.8** |
| billiard |
S37° **.3** E145° **.1** |
| conservatory |
S37° **.4** E145° **.1** |
| dinning |
S37° **.7** E145° **.6** |
| hall |
S37° **.5** E145° **.2** |
| kitchen |
S37° **.8** E145° **.3** |
| library |
S37° **.3** E145° **.4** |
| lounge |
S37° **.1** E145° **.7** |
| study |
S37° **.3** E145° **.9** |
| Weapon |
| candle stick |
S**° *4.**4 E***° *4.**2 |
| dagger |
S**° *4.**8 E***° *2.**4 |
| lead piping |
S**° *5.**2 E***° *2.**2 |
| revolver |
S**° *6.**6 E***° *3.**4 |
| rope |
S**° *6.**4 E***° *1.**0 |
| spanner |
S**° *6.**6 E***° *5.**8 |
NOTE: While the method of solving this puzzle has changed in its implementation, the who, where and with what is the same and the cache itself is in the same location. This is not a new cache so if you have found the clues previously, they are still valid.
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